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II.
Royal
Jommentaries.
Some evil Omnfellours which loved CO·make and foment difference, ad\ ifed
Al–
magro
to
kill
Hernando .Pipirro,
~or t~at
ever fince
t~e
.full:
time
~hat
he
cam
from
Spain,
they had d1fcovered
m
'him
a
fuange mall
towards
h1s
erfon,
ha–
ving never mentioned him
with
any kind charaeter ; .and that he was a tyian of
a
violent
f
pirit, revengeful! to the urmofl:, and of
a
different remper co
his
Bro–
thers ; and therefore tbat it was dangerous to
fuffer
fuch
a
Man to live.
AJmagro
was
ready
to
have executed
this
counfel, but that
Diego,
and
Gome~
de
Alvarado
'/ohn de
Saavedra,
Barto/qmeo de TerraztU, Vafco
de
G11evar.1,
and
Geronimo
J.e
Cofti!la,
and ochers, who were
all
Gentlemen of Noble defcent, and friends
co
peace and quietnelS, refl:rained this v_iolence ;
telli~g
him, that there
V\
.as n. rea-
. fon
in
that open manner to break with the Marqrus, who had been hIS faubfull
friend and confederate in all Enterprifes;
for
perhaps the reputation he had ble–
mi!hed by breach of the Truce might be falved again , and the feizure he had
made on the Government might be accommodated ; but the Affalfinarion of
Her–
nando
Pi
Arro
was a
thing
fo
odious to the World, and
fo
infamous to his Name,
rhat the fl:ain thereof could never be blotted out; and therefore he would doe
well to confu
t
\1'
ith
Reafon and Prudence, rather than With
his
Anger and Re–
venge, \ hich
n
ould carry
him
to
more dangerous extremities.
With chefe and the like
Re
fol!~
rhefe Gentlemen perfuaded
Almagro
to defill:
from this
cruel
intention, cont ming himfelf with the Government of the
City·
which having taken upon him, he caufed all the Officers of the Corporation,
and
the people
a
hundred Leagues round , according to the limits prefixed
co
him
by
his Majell:y, to
fi
ear Fealty and Allegiance to him. Where we
will
leave
him
for a
while, and
pafs
forwards to other matters
which
hapned at the fame time.
C H· A P. XXXII.
Of the Nard/hips and Difficulties which
Gar~ilaffo
de
Ia
Vega,
and hitS Companions, fufiained to Di/cover the
Countrey of
Bu na...ventura,
which
Jignifies
Good
For–
tune.
WE
have formerly
r~lated
how that
Don
Francu
Pifarro
finding himfelfbe..
liege~
by the
J~dzans
, who had
made
a general InfurrecHon , great]
feaded, that hlS
~rothers_1?
Co:
t.co,_and
Almagro
in
Chilt,
were defiroyed by
them~
an
therefore
with
all
diligence d1fpatched Advices to
Mexico NicaragHa pan
'
~
Do;ning_o,
and the other
Iflan:ds
of
B11rlovento,
to demand
fuc~ours
and
(elief~mh~
eviufe fent Orde!"5 to recall hIS Captains, namely,
Alonfo
de
Alvarada, Seheflian
~
J!el11lcafar, Garplaf{o tle la
Vega,
and
{ohn
Poree//
requiring them to defifi
fr
Aiedr
~nquell:s,
and to return to him with all their force,
ha\7ing
need-of
the~
f
agamfl:.
the power of the
IndianI.
Alonfo
de
Alvarado,
who was
the
nearell:
h.
art-illo
his
Qlarters,
was.
the fitlt that came
in,
but not timely enough to
yield
l
a
ence before
~e
Indians
began to
flag,
and wi,hdraw their force from
the
tty
of
los_R~e1,
\.
hich they totally abandoned,
fo
foon as he appeared; buc nei·
t
er
p~am
Sebthaft_1aAn de Be/alcafar,
nor Captain
de
/01
Brac1tmorw
nor
9
0
hn P<rt"ce/I
ere
re1ent at
lS
ct.ion b
r~
h
h
d.
'
1 '
'
'·ere k.11 d b
th
'
Y
reaivn
t
at
t
e
Jn urru,'
ho carried the Command,
ha
1
e
Y
e '' ay '
fo
that the Order or Summons never came to their
Al~~:;do
befides,
Gar~ilA]{o
tJ:
la !'eta
arrived not long after the coming of
Alonfo
M
hich
from the Bay, which
1S
called St.
Mathrn/s
Bay and
B11e111t·vent11ra
•
the
'
Counrrey ( as we ha e touched befOre)
as bad: and almofi uniohlbica
be ,
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