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II.
Royal
Commentaries.
feveral
Spaniards
who being defirous of Novelty , and Dillention, moved and
incited fiim
ther~nto.
On
the
other fide
'f
ohn
and
G
~Ida
Pifarro,
an~
other
Gentlemen,
which came
in
with
Alvarak,
made
hea~,
an?
?Ppofed
him ;
f
which
were
Graviel
de
RojM,
Garcil"f[o
de
la
Vega,
Ant-cmo
fi:lttmi~tfl.rJO,
.dlonfa de
11-"
varado
and the greateft
part
of that Regiment, and
the
Dllfent.tons
arofe
fo
high
aroonclr
them
and
to
that
~age,
that
many
of
them
were
often killed
at?<l
woJIDCled
in
th~
San.ffies.
Of
which
intelligence
being
brought
to
the Marquus
tben at
"FruxiJ/o
he
immedia~ely
deparced thence, being carried from one fiage
to
another on 'the Shoulders
Qf
lndia?ts,
.for the fpace
of
cwo hundred Leagues,
which
is
rhe difrance of that lace from
CourA
In
this Journey the Marquifs tri;."
velled alone, and crufied himfelf to the
ait~fulnefs
of the
ln~iA!u,
on Confi–
(:lence and
Security
of
M.anco Iac1i
'>
who remamed as ·a
Pawn
m the Hands of
his
Brothers
iJ
whom we call Prince, and not
King)
becaq~
he was never
r–
mitted to Reisn, though tqe
l~dians
did
ftrive, and endeavou_r
by
all means
po -
Iible
to oblige the
Spaniards,
rn
hopes
that
by
fu~h
Compliances , they might
be
j~duced
to r.efrore the Empire unto their
Jm:a.
The Marquifs being arrived,
~he
Difcontencs quickly vanifhed;
for
thefe
two
great
Men
having
fi
orn
Friendfhip, and ancient Brotherhood together, were immediateJy reconciled ,
and
brought to
a
better underO:anding, by removal
of evil
Counfellours , and of
fuch
as
defigned
to make a Benefit by their Differences.
And
now
Almagr~
was
become fenfible of
bis too hafiy
Declaration,
aod that
be
h d been too forward in carving
·out
a Jurifdiltion
t-0
himfelf, upon
a hare
Information , before he had been authoriz.,ed to claim his Right thereunr
by
His
Majefiy•s Commiffion; on which acknowledgment
the
Marquifs pardonea
him, and both of them became as perfeet Friends as
if
there had never
pafled
any
Difference between them : And for better Security and Confervation of this
Confederacy,
they
renewed their Vows at the Holy Sacrament n¢ver more to
'9iolare
their
Faith
each to
the
other,
and
by
mutual confent
agi'eed
between
tbemfelves and th
ir
parties refpeffively, That
.A.lmagz{)
ihould undercake the
Coi:iqueJl
of the Kingdom
of
Chili,
hich
abounded
with Gold,
and
appertained
to the
InctU;
upon which conditions
they
agreed
to
join together
in
their Petition
to His M1jefry, to grant unto him that Dominion; and in
ca[e
that could not
be obtained,
that then
they
would make an equal Divifion
of
Pe-1'11
between
themfelves.
On
rhefe
Terms
both Parties remained well fatisfied, though fome
ma–
licious
perfons fuggected, that
Almagro,
who had been
fo
{food a Companion,
and
fo
neceffi.ryan Infrrument in this Conqueft, had been unjufily treated, and
throw
n out ofall Right in the Divifion of
Peru,
and that the
Pifarros,
under
the
pretence of
an
hundred Leagues,. had engroi!ed and appropriatea the whole
Dominion thereof unto themfelves.
And
whereas upon the Fame and
NoiCe
which the Riches of that Empire had made
in
the World, great numbers of
Spaniards
had
Rocked from all places, and that the parts already conquered did
fq1rce yield a Tratl: of Land, fufficient to fatisfie the Merits and Expett:ations of
rhe firft Conquerours ; it was therefore judged neceffary to enlarge the extent of
the Polfeffions by new Conquefts; and that as
A!magro
was to fubdue the
Kingdom of
Chili,
fo
alfo Captain
A!on{o de
Alv1trado
was defigned for the Pro–
vine~
of the
Chachapu-!tU
;
which, though under the Command of the
Inca,
yet
tru{hng to
the
ecunty
of
the
Mountains, where Horfe can doe little Service,
a~d
to their own Skilfulnefs, and Valour
in
War, refufed
to
yield any Obe–
d~ence
to_
the
Spaniards.
Captain
Garcilaf{o de
la Pega
was defigned for the Pro–
vmce which the
Spaniards,
by Irony, or contraries, call the Province
of
Good
Fortune.. Captain
[ohn Prrl'cel
was fem
into
the Countrey called by the
Spani–
ards Bracamoros,
and by the
Indians Pacamuru.
And
farther
it
was ordered
That Recruits fhould be fent to
Seb1iftian
de Bclalcafar,
for 'his Aflifiance
u;
the Conquefi of
~itu;
by which means Provifions would not onely be
made to fatisfie the Defires and Expeetations of all Perfon , but rhe Minds
o~
tbe
A9venrure~s .
employed , and amufed in new
Acquifitions
and Enter–
pn[es,
~v~1ch
remammg
10
Idlencl5 and Sloth would
e ·nc ·nable o Mminie
and edmon.