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BooK

II.

Royal

Commentaries.

thereof.

Godoy

returned ( as.rhey.fay) with

his

tail between'

his

legs,

:md

with

" cwo

Spaniards

in company w1tb bun, who had belonged co

C?ahete,

and by help

" of their Horfes h:id made an efcape ; the

ill

news hereof, which greatly troubled

Pipirro,

was fpeedily feconded by

D1~ego

Agu;ro,

who fled

for

fafety to

101

Reye:,

" and gave

relation, that all the

Indian1

were

Arms, and had burned

all

his

'' Plantations and were very near with a mofi powerfull Army. The news

" hereof

grea~ly

terrified the whole City, '

regard

the

Number of the

Spaniards

" was much diminilbed; howfoever,

Pifarro

difpeeded.

Peter de Lerma

Burgos

" with feventy Horfe, and many

I~dians

who were. Fnends, and were ?ecome

" ChriIHans to intercept them

their

paffage,

and hinder them from making

ioo

'' near an approach towards the City, and he him(elf

m~rched

the Rere with

'' all the

Spaniard1

that remained; but

Le~a

fightmg with good fuccefs, drove

" the Enemy

into

the Rocks, where he might have totally deftroyed them, had

" not

Pifarro

founded a retreat.

" That day one

Spanifh

Horfe·man was killed

the Fight, but many were

'' wounded · -and

Pedro

Lerma

had his Teeth beacen out: Howfoever, the

ln–

d1ans

retur~ed

many thanks

their God the Sun, who had delivered them

" from thofe dangers ; and in tefrimony thereof, offered many Sacrifices u

nro

" him. Then they removed their Camp to

certain Mountain near unto

101

Reyes

through

.rhe

middle of which runs

River, where they continued

for

the

fpace'

of ten Days, fighting and skirmHhing with the

Spaniards

;

but with the

lnJian1,

who were their Enemies, they avoided

all

Engagements.

· Thus

far

are

the

Words of

Gomara

;

the which

confirmed by

Carate

almofi:

the fame words, and which

(if

we well obferve)

more in favour to me

In–

dian1,

than

the

Spaniards.

The truth

all which

this; The Infidels having

killed and

defiroyed many

Spt!tniards

the Ways and Roads, became

fo.

encou–

raged

their fuccefs, that they refolved to atcempt

los

Reyn,

and de!lroy the

Marquis and all his people ; and being on their March thither with this intention,

about eight or ten Leagues from the City, they encountred

Pedro de Lerma

and

his

Forces, and engaged valiantly with them : And in regard the Fight began in

Plain,

rhe

Spanifh

Horfe had

great advantage on the

lndiaru,

and killed many

of them ; but:

they

afterwards making a retreat into the Mountains, with loud

fhouts, and with the found of Trumpets and Drums allarum'd all the

lndian1

round,

that they encreafed to the number of forty thoufand: And

regard

the Mountains were iliarp and

craggy,

and that the Horfes began to be tired

and

weary, the

Indians

adventured to fally out upon them, and to renew the Fight.

Pedro

·de Lerma

had the misfortune to have his Teeth beaten

QUt

with

Stone hur–

led

from

Sling, befides which many

Spaniard.t

were wounded, of which thirty

tw6

died, to the

great

grief and forrow of all ; Iikewife eight Horfes died of their

wounds, though aetually in the

~attel

there was but one Man, and one Horfe

that was flain. The Governour who came in the Rere, obferving how his Soul–

diers

were difl:reffed, founded a retreat,

whi<::h

fetved

for

a Signal

to the Enemy,

that he was marc;hing to

the

Succour of his Friends;

which .the

Indians

being

affiighted, made"'a re( at, and

ended the Bactel of that day, whicii was very

bloudy. The

Spaniards

hereupon

return~d

to the City, and the

Indians

to their

Qlarter and

Rendezvous, where the Countrey Bocking in, they quickly made

Body of fixty thoufand

Indians

under Command of tlieir General

Titu

upanqui

called by

Garate

Tif o

rupangui,

and by

Gomara

TiU!)O

;

and with this force they

pitched their Camp near die City, having the River between to

k~ep

and

defend

them from the

Spanijh

Horfe.

...

T~ere ~hey

offered Sacrifices, and returned thanks to the Sun for having,

they IIT!ag.med, giverr them an advantage over the

Spaniard.t,

and caufed them to

retreat

mto

their City, and to

give

over the Fight. The Hifiorians who write of

thefe ma.tters fay, that the

ndi.e

n1 o~

ered

their Sacrifices in thanks for deliverance

from

th~rr

dangers ;

an~

farther

th.ey

add, that they continually skirmHhed with

the

Spam•ds,

and not with the

ndians

who took part with the

Spaniardr

[corning

it were, to

en~age

and fight againfl: their own Vaffals,

after

they had

h~d

the

nour to

~ght

wuli the

ViracochM

;

and though daily Encounters pa!fed between

them of little or no damage to the

SpaniardJ,

becaufe on the Plains the Horfe had

grea~

advanrag€, and c?uld hem

and encompafs the

Indians

all

fides ; yet the

conrmual Allarums which

were

given the

Spaniards

both by Night and Day, kept

B b

them

555