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Com1nentaries•
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filmagro
being employed
in
his Wars
in
Chi!~,
(ohn
de
Herrada
came to.him
" with a Commifllon for
his
Government ,
w~1ch.
was brought
tt01~
i!Ptlln
by
"
Her1ui.ndf>Pir;arro
which, though
it
cofi
him
his
Life, yec
he
more
re101ced
and
cc
criqmphed ilian'wrui all the
Gold
and Silver he had gained, for he
~as
more
'" ambitious
of
Honour
than
covetous of Riches.
Hereupon
he
entred
tnto
con–
" fol.ration
of
the
courfe
h(t
was
to freer, whether to remain
in
Chili,
or
rerurn to
'< ·
cv~co.
after {ome
debate thereupon> the latter was
refolved,
namely,
to return
" unto
C
<R.Coco mke
p0lfeffi.onthereof,
fince
the
Government
of
that
place
fell
" ro his
Fov:Unei
It
had beenbecter
for him if he
had
followed the Advice and
'' Requelb
0£ ch0fe
who
pE11ifuaded
him to
remain
ia
Chili,
or
in
the
Chllrcao,
" which is a i.rery rich and
rruitfull
Countrey~
and from thence to have
fenr and
" known the
Will and Pleafure of
li'rt:mcifco Pif arro,
and his Affiftanrs
at
Co:{.co:J
be–
'~
fore
he
attempted a matter,
V\
hich
proved
a breach
of
their
Affociarion.
The
" Perfons
who
perfuaded
him
to
.return, were
chiefly
Gom-e~
and
Diego
de
Alvarado,
'' and
Rodrigo Orgonnos,
bis familiar
and intimateFriend. In fine,
A!magro
re
folved
to
" .return to
Co:Gco,
and
aif
ume
the
Government
thereof
by
force,
in
cafo
the
P i–
n
flltrJJj
!hould'
not
eafily render and refign the fame. Thus fur a!e the
Word~
of
~~
•
r
•
The
Motives
which incited
Alm'!gro
and
his Captains to return unto
Peru,
were
not
the
bare
Command
and
J
urifdiCl:ion
over a hundred
Leagues
of
Land,
for
they
poffeffed
th
at, and much
more,
already
in
Chili>
where the
People
received
and treated
chem
wJ.thexceifes of
KinelneL5
and Service,
and
where their
Dorni–
J)ions increafed ,
andwere
daily
enlarged with new Conquefis over Countries
that
abounded with
Gold,
and other
Riches;
but
the ambition
of ·being Prince
over die Imperial City
of
Co«o,
over-balanced all other
conftderations;
and was
that
Bnne
ofDi:ffention
thrown
in
by the
Devil
between
thofe
two Goveraours,
from whence
arofe
the Civil Wars which
interrupted the propagation of
the Gof–
pel,
and
occafioned
the Death
of
many
ChrHHans,
and was
the Caufe that an innu–
merable company of others
dyed
without
the
Sacrament
of
Baptif
m;
bur the
paf:
. fion which
Al11'}A&~o
and his Companions had for
the Imperial Cicy, tranfported
them
with
a defftie
to
return
into
Pera,
not
by the
way they
came, for
the Diffi–
culty.. thereof,
and
their
Sufferings
were
frill
freili
in
their
memory ,
but
raking
their
paffage oveu a
Sandy
Defart,
in
which they
endured
extremity of Heat,
with
want of Water ,
the
Sufferings
were as
great
as
when
they fuflairted
che
contraries
ofSnow, Frofr, and craggy
Mountains;
as we <hall
hereafter more
par–
t-icu1ar1y
relate;
and
in
the mean time we cannot but rake notice of the
different
manner that the(e Hill:orians,
Garate
and
Gomara
relate this Expedition
of
Almagr9
into
Chili,
for they fay that he
returned
by
the fame
way,
and
that
he
made
feve–
ral Lecher
Bottels,
or Jacks, to
carry
Water, which was much
wanting
in thofe
dry Defarts, in which there
is
a plain mHl:ake; for where there is abundance
of
Snow, there
can be no want
of
Water : But chefe Authours confound
the
going
with the
return
of
Almagro,
which were two
different
ways,
fubjett
to contrary
inconveniencies.
And
farther
they
fay,
that
the
Gold which
PaHllu
prefented to
Almagro
in
Chili,
~as
forced from the
Indian.I
of
Charca&
by
Saavedra,
as
they
V\
ere
carrying
it
for a
Prefent
to
their King;
for that ever fince the beginning of the
War
between
the two Brothers,
Huafcar
and
Atahualpa,
they
had
conferved
their
Gold, and had {topped all
intercourfe
and correfpondences
by
that
way.
Upon
all
which matter, that ancient
Conquerour, (of whom we have
made
mention in
the former part ) taking notice in his Marginal
Notes on
the Hillary
of
Gomara
of
the
confufed Relation
of thefe pa!fages; in a kind of anger makes
the
Excepcions
following to the Chapter
1
3
s-.
c<
In
the
Relation which
this
Aurhour
gives of
Cou o
and
Chile,
there are many.
:; things that might be
added,
an9
i:iany
rh~gs
omitted.;
for in
writing
his
Hi–
fiory, he feems to have taken
his
mformauon from fuch as were as
ignorant
of
::
ma~ter~
as
~imfelf;
the w¥ch
~ppears .
in
this
particular
paifage; the
truth
of
" which
IS
th~:
Almag:o,
as
IS
evident,
did
not return from
Chile,
by
the way that
he
went thither, which was
by
a palfage
over
that Mountain
on
which
they
::
endure~
extremity of hunger and cold ,
and
by that entran'ce into
C()jJay11J11
1
which
1s
the
fitfi
Valley of
Chile
on that fide, where fell
fo
much Snow that
" many
Indians, Spaniards
and Horfes were frozen
to
death ;
and
many of'
tbo[e
:: who
efcaped,
lofi their Toes and Fingers,
~enurnbed
by
the
F~ofi,
but by ano–
ther
way,
as we fhall hereafter
declare.
Five Months aft€r \i\h ch,,
Rny-dia&,
and
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[obn
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