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Royal Commentaries.
CH A
·p.
XXXIII.
-
ri
t
,
'AlOQfo
de
Alvar~do
marcks
to
the
Succoztr of
Cozco;
a11.d
JVhat
Ins
fuccefs was in
thefe
Travels.
S.:
O fooo as Marquis
Pifawo
was recruited With Forces,
~oth
from
Alon.(o
de Al–
.
varado,
and
Gar 2
ua.f[o
de
la.
r~ga,
he
fen~
Succours
to
his
Brothers,
~emg.
alto–
~cher ~
5
yet
ignoraRt: of the
fuccefs
of
aff.aits at
Couo
;
for
he
was
neither
infor–
med
that Prince
Manco Inca
was
retr~ated,
nor that
Alm_11.&ro
was rem.med
from
chili
nor
his Brothers imprifoned. 0£
thofe
Troops which came to him, and of
hiS
o'wn
he
drew
out
a Detachment
-of three
fuundred Men, well Accoutred, and
Aeeom~odated
in
all
ref
pe&,
1
one
hundt:€d
aoo
twenty of
~rhich
were Horfe;
and an hundred afid
eighty
Foot
:
Aldnfo
de Alvarado
was
appomted to
Command
m Chief
s.JJhich
Olfice did formerly appertain
to
Pedro
de
Lerma,
a
Native of
B11r–
ga1,
who: during the Infurrection
?f
the
lndia~u,
had acquitted
himfe}f
like a good
Commander, and a
valiant
Sou1d1er; and as he always behaved h1mfelf
fioutly
as became him,
fo
one
day
particularly
in
a
Battel
between
the
Indians
and
the
Spa–
niards,
{1is
Teeth
"!ere
beaten out
with
an unlucky fione
~own
from a Sling_:
Nor
wash~
onely
cteyrived
of his
Command,
and the fame
given
to
another, buc
he
Wa§
oroor~d
to ferve under
Alonfo
de
Alvarado
in
QQ..ality
of
Captain of
Horfe :
the
which
Aetion, .as
fome conftrued
it,
was unpolitickly done
by
the Marquis,
~d
without
due confultation ; for fince he was refolved
in
a
manner
to degrade
him,
he
had better have
kept
him
in
his own
company~
than
to
have caufed him
to
terve under a Petfon agalnft whom he conceived fome piques of Emulation :
And
iRdeed
Pedro
de
Lormtt
did more refent
this
cir
cumfiance,than
the
depriva–
tion of
his
Office;
for
they were both of the
fame
Conntr.ey,and
both Noble ;
and
it
is
a·
piece
of pride
incident to the Nature
of
Mankind, rather to fabmit to
tbe
command
of a Stranger, though of meaner rank and quality, than
to
his equal
of thtt
iame
C'..ountrey
:
And
from chis erroar
it
was,
that
Pifarro
afterwards loft
the
fortune
of the
day,
as we !hall fee
by
the
fequel of
the
Story. ,
When the
dijy
appointed
for the
departure
of thefe Forces grew near,
Garfilaffe
Je
la
Veg4
de{\red licenc8 of
the Marquis,
that he
might
with
the
other
Captains
~
employed
it)
this
adventur~
for relief and fuccour of his Brothers ; to which the
Marquis
made
anfwer,
that
he fuould
f~ddtnly
have ocaafion of more fupplies,
and that then he fuould be fent Commander in Chief of them; bur
Garfilajfo
in–
ftaody
pred{ed
that
his defires
might
nor
be
deferred,
for that
he could not
be
quiec
in
his
mind,
when he
confidered
the
·dHhefs
of his Lord!hips
Brothers ;
for ha–
ving a.n ef
pecial
Friendfhip for them, and related
to
them as Countreymen he
could not pardon
himfelf,
in cate he {hould be guilty
of
remifneiS, and be
~
fe–
cond, and not
one
-0f
the
firll:
to
yield,
and
adminifier
Aid to them
in
their di–
fuefs ;
and that for the
recruits
which were
hereafter
to
be
fent,
he
did not doubt
b~t
that
he
was
furniilied with Commanders, unto whom he
might worthily
com–
~1t
that
charge..
.The
Marquis
yield~ng
at
_length
to
his importunity,
fuffered
bun to
depart
with
the others ;
fo
takmg
their
March
by
way of
the Plains
as far
as
N ant1.[ca,
to avoid the bad and difficult pafiages, they came to
the
be~utifuU
Valley
of
P1tqh11camac,
where about four Leagues
difi:ant
from
los Reyes,
they were
engaged ma bloudy
Bartel
againft the
Indians,
who were
frill
in Arms
and in
a
Body, OOt\\'ithO:anding that their Princewas
retired imo
the Mountains,. and had
U~tHl
that time always beaten the
Succours
which had been fem
to
c~co;
and
with
tha.t
enc~ragernent
adventured
to
~ngage ~ith
Alonfo
de
Alvarado,
fighting
a Jong tJme wub much bravery; but
be1~g
now m the
open Field,
without the
covert and
defence of
Woods and
Mountains, where the
Horfe could
doe
fervice
many
of
the
lndian1
were
£lain ;
but
in
th€ craggy :ind woody Mountain
they
did
. much rnifchief to the
Spaniardsl
killing
eleven
of them , and
feven
H
rfes.
From
thence
Alonfo de Alvarado
marched forward, and to make the more hafte, they tra-
D d d d
velled
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