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R.oyal Commentaries.
BooKI[
CH AP.
XXI.
New Pretenfions
obflrua the Conquefl of
Chili.
,Almagro
defigns to return unto
Peru ;
and the Reafons
why.
A
Lmagro
having repofed a while, .and
refrefued
himfelf,
his
Men,
and
his
Horfes, after the Hardfhip fufiained
in
the late Conqucdts,
he
then con–
fulted
of the
Way
and Method
h0w
to fubdue
the
other
Vallies
and Provinces
of the Kingdom of
Chili,
which
were not fubjeet
tO
the Dominion
of
the
Inca;
for thofe that were, upon appearance of
P
aullH,
Brother of their King, needed no
other force to render them obedient; wherefore
Alm~aro
communicated unto
Pau/!11
his
Intentions, who confidering that fuch Conguefts would be Enlargements
of
his
Brother's
Empire,
readily aifenced, and
in
order co that Defign drew out
from
the
Garrifons, and places ofDefence, all the FoFce that were in them,
and
i1fued out his Commands for making Provifions, .Qnd bringing chem to the
Camp; which having done, he accompanied
Alma!Eo
to.
the
Conqueft
of
the
Pro–
vinces of
Purumt111ca
,
.Antu/Ii, Pincu,
Ca11qui,
and
the
Pans
adjacent, as far as to
the Province
of
A ra11cu.
In
this Enterprife
£hey
had
many
SkirmHhes
with
the Natives, who behaved themfelves valiantly ,
an~
like Souldiers, being in a
fignal manner dexterous in
their
Bows
ao<;I Arrows, with which
they•
would fuoot
wirh admirable aim; but the l?artleulars
thereorwe
!hall not
relat~,..
nor yet the
Battels,
onely
in general, that
they
were
very
hle>udy,
and fioatly
fought,
becmfe
we
muff: hafien to our
Hifiory of
PeYH.
In
fhope
th€refore,
th~mgl-vth~
Enerni6
made good refiftence,
yet
the
Spaniard1
gained upon them with
h'!PPY
Succe{S,
b¥
the Affiftence and Good-will of
Pm1lfu,
and
biS..hdidns-.
But
diele
happy
and
profperous proceedings were foon ohflnleted
by
:b1fc-0rd, which
atways
blowed
the Flame
of
Feud and Diffemion between tbele ..
twd
famous Bro hers,
whicll
were never quenched,
umill
both of them were confomed, as
wilt
appear in
the
fequel of this Hifrory.
Thus
A lmagro
proceeding in a profperous courfe of Vietory, though at the ex..
pence of
Spanifh
and
Indian
Bloud; at the end of five Months, from the time
th~t
he enrred
Chili,
Recruits of an hundred Men
\Vere
brought ro him, under the
Command and Conduet of
Rui&
D iM,
and
'/ohn
de
Herrada,
who (as we have faid)
\.\ ere appointed co remain in
Cou o,
to
make Levies of Men, and fend him Suc–
cour . Their paifage
was
over the fame Mountains, and by the fame way that
Al–
magro
had traverfed before; and though it happened at a better feafon of the
Year, that is, in rhe month of
N ovember,
which
is
ummer in that Climate, when
the no
were
no£
fu.
deep, nor the Colds
fa
intenfe, yet many
Indi11.111,.
and
fome
Spaniard.I
were frozen
to
Death; and thofe that efcaped had periilied with
Hunger, had they not been fultained by rhe Flefh of thofe Horfes which "'ere
found dead in the way, where having been frozen ever fince the time that
A lma–
~ro
pa ffed that way, the fle(h thereof \Vas as frefh and good, after five Months, as
if they had been killed that very day.
The Difficulties of this Journey being overcome, ( which were greater than
we are able
to
expre!S, ) they were received by their General with all imaginable
Joy ar,d
onrentment ; and better was their \\·ellcome, when it"' a kno\' n that
Herrada
brought with
him
His
Majelly' Commiffioo, \ hich inveCled
Almagro
in
che Government
~md
JurifdiB:ion of an hundred Leagues of Land, exempt and
di!Hnet from the Terrirories of Marquifs
Pip1rro.
This Commiffion
v
as
brought
by
HmtanJo Pi arl'o,
when he
lafl:
rerorned from
Spain
unto
Peru,
the which
he
fent from
/01
Reye1
to
Herrada
by the Pofi , knowing thac he
was
rhen upon
his
departQre for
Chili.
This particular
is
relared by
Gemara
in che 135 th Chapter of
hiS
Book, the which Word we have extratted
verbatim
in this manner.