584 / 1060
554
R.oyal
C
ommeniarie.s.
Booa IL
changed their refolution of aifaulting
lo1
Reyes,
and determined
to
fiop and inter4
rupt them in their paffage , and co chat end co take pofiefflQn of all the narrow
Paff es
and Avenues ;
for
in
the B.oad
from
Co~co
to
~itu,
there
are
many
firaic
ways, which are not paffable without much
ifficulty. The Plbt being thus laid.
they fuffered
Diego Pif arro,
and his Company, to travel feventy Leagues vvithout
giving them the
leaft
interruption or di!l:urbance
?
for
though there vvere
man
difficult Paffes before they had proceeaed
fo
far, yet they thought
fit
co crole
the~
on
to
fqme confiderable diftance from the Govemour, that hearing
no
nevvs
of
them, he might believe that they
vvere
arrived in fafety at
Co~o:
Sa
at length
raking them on the
fide
of a £l:ony Mountain called the
Parcos,
chey
rhrevv from
the top mighty Stones, and pieces of Rocks upon them,
called
Ga
!g.tu,
againft
which no
Armour
being
proof
fufficient, they overwhelmed chem
all vvithout
u(e
ofLance or Svvord,
not
one of
chem efcaping.
In
the fame manner they fer–
ved Captain
Morgwejo de
~nnones
vvith
fixty Horfe and feventy Foot ; and after
that
tliey
cwer-thre'Vv
Captain
Gonfalo de Tapia,
as
he vvas marching vvith fucty
Foot-Soulthers,
and
eighty
Horfe; amI foon
after
that they defeated Captain
A/();fo
de
Ga'IJei-e
vvitl\ forty Horfe} and fixty Foot under his Command. So that on
fe.
veral
i)affiigeS
bf the
vvay, four
hundred and fe\'Tenty
Spaniards
vvere loft,
of
whith
t\7\To
hu'ndred and
fifty were Horfe.
Carate
reckons
them
to
ha'7e
been three
hundred,
and
tvvd
l\uhdred
and tvventy Foot: 13ut
Peter
de Ciir_a
making up
the
account of the
number of
Spaniard's
which
the
Indians
.killed in this
gener~l
Iufur-
rection ,
decla~
in the
81d
Cm
pter of his
Book,
as fo11ovvs :
.
'' It is faid
that
the
Indians
bf
this
Province of
Cunchucu
were a
ftout,
and
a
'' warhke people ; for
which teafon
the
lnctU
finding fome dilficulty
to
fubdue
"
the~
did labour to
win
and
aJ1ure
thern by fair words,
and oblig_ing
a'ctrons.
' " Tbete
lndian1
kil~d
many
Spaniards
1n
divers parts; to revenge which,
Mar–
ee
quis
Pi f arro
fem
Francu
de
Chaves
to
make War on the
lndian1
in
a rnoft
cruel
c,
and terrible manner; in purfuance of
which,
as fome Writers report, he burned
" and empaled great
numbers
of them: The
truth
is,
about ch:tt time;
or a
litcl<:
" before, a general Infurreffion
was made
in
all
the
Provinces ;
and
on the
~ay
cc
ot
ro~d
between
Couo
and
~itu,
they killed
a1:Jove
f
even
nundred
Spithhtrllt
;
" and fuch of
them
as they
rook
alive,
they
put
to
death
with
cruel
Tortares.
" God deliver us from
the
rage of
the
lndia>-111,
Ior
certainly they are a futiaus
'' and bloudy people, where
they
can
~et
the
Mafl:ery, and
effea
their
defir~s;
cc.
1thougb, to excufe
themfelves
11
they
alledged\
that
they fougnt for
.their
Li~rty,
'' nnd
t o free themfelves from
-rhe
Slavery
-ano
Tyranny
of
the
Spamardr,
&c.
~
l
Thus
fat
are
the
Words of
de
Citrra
;
which
are confirmed
by
Bbu
Ya/era,
whq
reports, that above [even hundred
Spaniarh
were killed
in
the lare Infurrecnorl ;
of
which
above three hundred were Affafinated
in
the
Mines, and in .their
Pof- ·
feffions
and Lands,
wherein
tbey were fcatrered)ih pttrfuitct
their
gains and
behe–
fits;
anCI
that
ilinr.huOclred
and
feVenty
wbich were
(eAt
for Succours, were
ktlleit
in the
Mountains
.1but
th~fe
wete
ndt'
a11 difpeeded roget
but
in
feveral-1~/
rachments, rhtr:
fo
the
Srtl:
might
4
arrive
with better
fpeed
diligence; Fdr:
:i
~'as
hever itnagineditnat-1b
much
aanger was
in
the
way; o
at
the
Indi11w,
~hQ
ere
able to contend
with,
and
overcome ten "Horfe.meo, fhoald be capabie
co
overthrow fixcy, {evency
or
-eighty Horfe n a body, befides the Infantry.
And
hough he pref
urned
much on
this
opinion, and
oh
tbe
confidence
he had
of
hiS
own people ; yet not
having
received intelligence of d1e fufi, nor
yec
of the fe–
cond rhat were fent, lte· as greatly troubleli; whetefore
tb
fatiSBe bimfelf thete–
in,
and co undedfand
ome
hews from
his
Dr0tbets, 'he dlfpatched away another
Capt
in
cal
1
led
Francia
-de ·Goti1J,
'a
Native
of
Datcm:r,
with a Party of forty ffve
light Horfe without baggage or ocher
incnttibrante;
not
that they Ihould
prot.eelf.
fo
far as
Couo,
but onely to enquire ob the
ways, and
get the
belt
intelligence"
rhey could concerning their
Companions.
Of which paffige
Gomara
fpeaking·itt
the
136th
Chapter, hath ilieie Words:
.
.
"
P-icarro
being
much
troubled that he received no Letters from
his
l3rotbers,
" nor
tram his other
Captains ; and
being jcilous
of
the misfortune which then
'' had happened, he difpatched away forty Horfe under Command of
Fraf1cio
de
"
Godoy
to make 'dlqtiiries of
what
had fucceeded, and co bring him intelligence
~
thereof.