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II.
R~yal
Commentaries.
And here it is obfervable, that both Governours challenged the City of
Co~·
co
for his own, and
boch
agreed that the Limits of their refpective Govern..
mems <hould
be
began
and
be
ell:ablifhed from the Chanels
without.,
one
to
the Southward ,
and
the other
Northward,
the
choice
of which
being abfo..
lutely
_granted
to
Almagro
,
he
refufed co accept
efthe~~
for
feeing
himfelf
now
in pofieffion of the City,
and thac
his
Com~ticour
had condefcended to all
his
Conditions,
he believed that fuch
Compliance proceeded
from
a
fear
of
loofing all
his
Government; wherefore fince Fortune had with difplayed wings
owned
his Caufe, he was refolved
to
pu{h
it
forward, and
try
if
he could
be–
come
fole Monarch
of
al_l
that
Empire.
Thus
Almagro
being
puffed up with Ambition,
and
moved
with
Covecouf–
nefs, which are
two unfatiable
Affuctions
of the
Mind , he would
yield to no
Agreement
wich
the
Marquis ,
and
Ejpinofa
dying amidll: the heat of thefe De–
bates, nothing was concluded; nor
the
Benefit of that
Peace
and happy
Ac–
commodation
produced, as might
have
been expected
from
the Prudence ,
Judgment,
and
moderation
of that worthy
Perfon,
who,
before
his Death,
prefaged the Ruine and Defuuction of
both the
Governours. And now
Al–
magro,
to
cell:ifie to
the
World
that
he had
not yielded to the Propofitions of
the
Marquis,
he
marched
out of
Couo
with
an
Army , leaving
Graviel
tk
R.o-
ja1
Govemour
in
his
fiead, with Commiffion to
have
a
particular Eye
arid
Regard over the Prifoners, who, with the
fufi
taken with
Hernando
Pifarro,
and
thofe
with
Alonfo
de
Ai'llarado,
did
amount
in
all
to
the number
of one hun–
dred and
fifty
which were committed unto two feveral Prifons, as we
have
-already declared.
But in regard chat
Almagro
durft
not ttult
Hernando Pifarro
in
Prifon, 1efi he
lhould make
his
Efcape, he
took
him with himfelf,
and
marched
by way
of the
Plains; and
having
paffed the Territories
belonging to
Couo,
he entred
into
the
Jurifdietion of
los
R':Ju,
and
came to the Valley of
Chincha,
which
is not
much
tnore
than twenty Leagues difiant from that
City,
where, in token
of Live·
ry
and
Seifio, he founded a new Colony, giving thereby a clear
Evidence
of
his
Intentions, to become
Maller
of
both
Governments. And here for a while he
p~cched
his
Camp, to
fee
how the Marquis
would
take
this
Attempt, giving
h~m thereb~
to underfiand , That in cafe he
fhould
be
difpleafed
with
thefe
h~s ~roceedm~s,
chat
he .was there ready
to
defie
him , and
there
expeeted
him
m
the Field ,
to decide
the
Controverfie
like a Souldier,
an8
a valiant
Captain.
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