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Royal

Commentarie.r.

•

f!I

-.OJ

the

differences w'hich arofe between cthe

Almagro's,

and

the

Pi~arro''S;

nnd of

the

Imprifonment

Hernando

Pi~arro.

fooa

Alm-agro

and

Pi;.arro

faw

that die

]Hca

had disbanded

his

Army,

and

was

'fled

and had left .\into them .free poffeffion of the Empire; they began

then openly

difcover their Paffions, and rum their Arms each againft rhe other ;

one afteaed to rUle '(llld govern abfolutely alone, and the other

-prepa~ed

to pre–

vent

and

difuppoint him •of _the Poffeffion of that

fu~reme

Power

~hich

neither

3dm1ts

a Superiour nor

-a

Rival.

T~us

_Alm-agro

r~gwred

Rerndndo

Prptrr~

to fur–

tenaer

the

City

to him, and

•ef!Ve

him

mfree pofii!ffion thereof, pretendmg,

that

was the Part and Divifion.which belonged to

him,

and not to

his

Brother; as

not being comprehended

within

the two hundred Leagues of

Lan~ bel~nging

the M

arquis, which 'were to

meafured, -and fee out from

t~e

Equmochal South·

war.cl

, -along the Sea-coatl, according_ to the Capes, and

Pom~s,

and Bays, run–

Mng l

;y the Sea-iliore; but certainly Land was never meafured m that manner, or

o~het

Lines

'than by the Higb-ways. Howfoever the party of

A/Th11gro

inftfied

this

_point,

and would underlhnd no other Meafures than .by

th~

Sea-coaft,

which

l>iy-arro

had granted ahd condefcended unto, though His

MtiJefty

fuould

have enlarged his

urifdia:ion an hundred Leagues farther ,

yet

his Dominion

Wollld not'l1ave reached

fur as

los Reyes,

much lefs could

have extended unto

D.too.

Ho vfoe\Ter thefe groundlefS Reafons·and Fancies had

far poifeffed the

Mind

.Almagfo,

and his Party, that they would fuffer no Contradicnon ,

hearken to any Arguments to the contrary, but violently refolved to abandon the

Kingdom of

e.hili,

and return

Pern,

and

Coz,co,

from whence afierwards

ma–

ny Rumes

and Mifchiefs did enfue.

T-0this

Demand

Hernando

Pipuro

made Anfwer, that he did not command that

City by virtue of his own Authority, but

a Power derived from the Gover–

Jfour, who

was

his Captain General, to whom having made Oath never to fur-

aer

that City into any other hands, than his own; he

cou~d

neither perform

the

part of a Gentleman, nor of a

Sould~er,

in cafe he fhould betray his

Trull

focn

a bafe furtehder, which was an abfo1ute Breach of his Oath; bur in cafe

they

would write to the Marquis, and obtain his Order, he would immediately

yield

all

compliance to his Commands. But waving that particular, he infified,

that

the Imperial

City

belonged to his Brother, and was comprehended within

the Limics of his Jurifdittion; for that .the meafures he propounded by Capes,

and GulfS, and Bays, along the Sea-coall: , were mere fancies, and fallacies, and

fuc-h as nevet were admitted amongfi any rational Geographers ; for the

tur–

nings and .windings of the Land

wiH

take up above half the extent of Ground, as

manifell: by experience of the doubling of the Lands onely from the Ifie of

P almes

the Cape of St.

Francu.

Nor ought the Land to be meafured by the

High-ways, which often turn and wind , and are fieep, and oftentimes afcend

three or four Leagues; and then again defcend as many more; which upon a

fireight Line frotn one Hill

another , will not make half a League. But the

Pifllrros

did not approve of this kind of Meafure, alledging, that the Leagues were

reckoned according

the Degrees oft e Equinoctial, as Mariners mete our

by their Compaff'es

~he ~~fianc~

at Sea, allowing to every Degree fevenceeo

Leagues and an half,

fa1hng plam North and Sourh: Now whereas there were

not above eleven Degrees

-0f

South-latitude from the Equinoetial

the City of

los Reyes,

which make _not more

~an

an hundred ninety two Leagues and an half;

and chat to

Couo,

which {land

fourteen Degrees,

will

not make above two

hundred forty five League in all;

that both Cities of

101

Re.Jet,

and

Co~co,

\'ere

Ce ce