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II.
Royal
Commentaries.
Sallies forcing them
to
retreat
to
what place, and as
far
as they p!eafed;
wirh
which'at length they became
fo
ama~ed
and
affiighted~
chat
they
it~ould
make no
Defence, fo
that
twenty
five
or
thirty
Spania;Ad1
:ivere
abl~
to
deal
with
great Squa–
drons of the
lndi"11.r.
and kill and put them
to
fbghr,
as
1f
they had
been
fo
many
Infants or Children.'
For
if
God
be
for
u;,
who can he
agn,irift_
'H4?
In
this manner
the
Indians
left the Siege
of the
City,
being driven from the
Fields,
and
all
the
Qi!arcers chereabo11ts
7
and not one appearing, unlefs in the Rocks and Mouncalns,
wh
re
the
Horfe
coll!d doe but little
fervice : And yet
theRocks were not
fuffi-
ient
fafo.guard
and
protection
for.
them ,
bec~ufe
the
Horfe
trotred
over
thertt
like
fo
many
Gons:
This,
I
fay,
1s
a
companfon
of my own,
but
I
have
heard
another
much
more
apt'
co
this
purpo~,
from one
of th€
Conquerours of
chofe
dtnes,
~alled Rodrigue~
de
Pitla-f11erte,
who
was one
of
thofe
thirceen who remain–
ed
With
Frtmdfad
Piyarro
7
when all
his ocher
C-Ompanions
deferted and
abandoned
him, as we have formerly
related.
·
This Cavalier, with divers others, going one day ro bring feveral
Gentlemen
on
their way, that
were travelling
into
Spain,
I alfo
remember to
have been wirH
them
though but
a Youth,. it being then towards the end of
the
year
1
5
5
2 ;
and
b~ioi
on
the
Road
which
leads co
Arequepa,
Rodrigue~
de Villa-fperte,
during
all
the
time
that
he
was
travelling
from
Co~co
to
f2.!±efjecancha,
which
are three
Leagues.,
related
the
many fucce!fes which occurred in
che
late
Siege;
poiming with his finger
at the places \l\rhere fuch
and-fo-c-h Aetions
had pa«ed, telling that there
fucn
a
perfon performed
fuch an
Exploit ,
at
fuch
a place
another atl:ed
fuch a piece
of
bravery; and,
amongft
others, which
were
very
firange
and
wonderfull, he re–
counted
one of
Gonpdo Piyarro
on the very
ground
where
it
was
performed; the
which
we
!hall
mention
in
its
due place.
Apd
having made us
a
Narrative
of
many fuaoge Atchievernents, he
added ,
that
we ought not
to
disbelieve thefe
matters
as
incredible,
for
that
God
was
pleafed
vHibly
to
affifi,
and
favour
us with
his Miracles ; amongfi: which
it
was
none of
the
leafr,
that
our Horfes
were
nim–
ble,
and
tripped
over the Rocks
and Precipices
of thofeMountains
with
fuch
eafe
and
attivity,
as
if
they had
been
Doves or
Pigeons
;
and
yet
thofe
Mountains ,
which are to the
Eafi-fide
of
the
way,
are
very
fieep
and
craggy.
I
wifi1
I
had
not forgot
many particulars which he
related
to us
that
day) for
rhey would
have
furnilhed me with Cufficient
matter
to have filled many
leaves
of Paper touching
the
01any
Exploits performed
by
the
Spaniard.1
in that Siege:
H0wfoever,
in gene–
ral~
it
is
worthy our admiration that a hundred and feventy Men onely fhould
be
able to oppofe
tWo hundred
thoufand
fighting Men, and contend
with them un-
,
der the many
fufferings
of
Hunger,
Watchings by continual Allarums, tired out
with
Labours, wom:tded
without the
help and cure of
Chirurgeons,
and
many o–
ther inconveniences
~
hich attend
firaimed
ahd
dillre!fed
Sieges :
And
more
than all
this,
the
Reader
may
fanfie
in his
imagination, confidering
that
it
is
im–
poffible to
defcribe
all
the
particular
difficulties
which
the
SpaniardJ
endured
anc.I
overcame
by
the
invincible Valour of their
Spirirs,
which
were fupporced
by
the
fole Power
of God, who
was plea.fed to make choice
of
this
people, for
thofe
who
were
to
preach
and plant
the
Gofpel
in
that
Empire.
The
Indians
having
now quitted
the Siege, the
SpaniardI
judged
it
no
complete
Vietory)
unle(s
they
made themfelves in
like
manner Mafl:ers of
the
Forcrefs:
Wher'efore
having
left
a
fufficient Guard in the
City,
they mounted
the
Hill to–
wards
the
Fort,
which
was valiantly defended by
the
lndianJ
for
five or fix
Days
together.:
At lafi
on~
night
afo~r
they
had
fought
ftoutly
the whole day,
fo
that
the
~tJt:mi~rd1
were remed
to
their Qg_arters, and chat
Don {ohn Pha1/o
who
fome
days before had been \'
ounded,
had for hi better
eafe taken
ofr
hjs Helmet .
it
happ~ed)
that a Stone
thrown
at
random from
a
Sling
firook him on
the
he~d
.
of which unhappy wound
he
died in three
days
afterwards.
'
:, "
T~is
was a lofs
(
A1tguftine Carate
reports) \:vhich
fenlihly touched all
thofe
('
Spanrardr,
~
1
ho
wee
A.~venturer
in
that
Couotrey,
for
that this
Picarro
had
the_ repuratton
of a valiant
Perfon,
and an
experienced
Souldier in
rbe Wars
" agamfi
the
Indi·anf,
and was
generalry
beloved and efreemed b all. Thus fur
are
the
Words of
Carftfe,
549
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