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Commentaries.
PaullH
having amaffed the Gold, carried it co
Almagro,
and prefented
it
to him
in
the Name of his "Brother
M1tnco
Jnc1r-,
and of
all
tne Kingdom of
Chili ;
which
much rejoiced and encouraged
Almagro,
and his Souldiers
to
fee , that
a
frnall
People, in
fo
iliort a
time~
was
able to provide fuch a quantity of Gold,
which
was a
clear evidence of the Riches of that Countrey. When
Almagro
faw
the
Gold , he
f
miled , and heartily thanked
P
aul!u,
telling him, that fuch Gifrs as
thefe were
fo
acceptable co him, as would oblige him for the future, as they
did at prefent' to make
him
fuch gratefull returns
as
would
be
much to his
advantage.
p
aullu
perceiving that thefe Prefents extorted
kind
Words
and
Promifes from
Almagro,
all
which he believed, endeavoured more and more to oblige
him
with
Prefents of that nature, and accordingly fent to the Villages, and inhabited
Va1-
]ies, which were thereunto adjoining to
brjng
in
all
the Gold they
had
con–
ferved
for
the
JncM,
for that he had occafion thereof, to make Preferits
unto
the
ViracochM,
who were Brothers to the
Inc"'.
Upon the Orders the
Indi.11ns,
in
a few
days, brought
in
three hundred thoufand Ducats of Gold over and above
the fonper quantity, and laid them before
Almagro;
which when he
fa
w ,
he
hugged Wtnfelf with the thoughts of that
rich
Councrey, which was
faln
to
his
Loe,
the which efteeming now
for
his
own,
in
gratitude to
his happy
Fortune,
he became munificent
in
a
high
degree, both to acquire Honour and Fame, of
which
he was very ambitious , and to gain the Good-will and Affeetion of his
S0uldiers and Companions; which that he might procure, he , in prefence
of
them
all, _
took out the Obligations and Bonds which every one of them, both
before and on occafion of
tliCi
Enterprife,
had
given
him,
which amounted
un–
to above an hundred thoufand Ducats, the which he tore
and
cancelled one
after the other; celling thofe who were bound to him
in
thofe Papers,
That
he
remitted, and made Prefents to them of their Debts,
wHhing
that the Summs
had
been greater,
that
he might have
had
occafion to have obliged them
far.. ·
ther;
and
to thofe who
were
not indebted
to
him,
he gave Money
to
de~
flay
their
Charges, and make
fuch Provifions
as were then necefiary; with which
Liberality
all
the
Souldiers were greatly fatisfied
and
pleafed.
-
Lepe~
de Gomara,
in
the 142.d Chapter of
his
Book, fays, That
this
aC:t:
of
Li–
berality was a
piece
of
Magnificence, rather ofa
Prince than
of
a
Souldier, yet
when he dyed, there
was
not
any who would cover him
with
a rag of
Cloth
at
the place
where
he was beheaded,
&c.
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