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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
II.
CH AP.
XX
XVIII.
•.
Of the
fatal
Confequences
which
enfued after
the Battel
of
Salinas.
'' T
H E Armies of
Almagro,
and
Go112:A!o Pif_arro,
joyned Bartel and
both
:
.
. ft
des ,
~e
Spaniard1
,
fought
wi~ m~ch
Bravery ;
but at 'length
the
Pi;arrif/.r
prevailed,
who
made
ufe
of
their V
1etory
with
much cruelcy
and
fe–
" vericy,
which,
in
excufe,
they attribute to
the revenie
they defigned,
for the
'' defeetion which was made from
Alvarado
at the bridge of
AmancllJ.
o:g!»"m>1
" having
yielded
himfelf
Prifoner unto two
Cavaliers,
another
came and
fell
up–
" on
rum,
and
killed
him:
When Captain
&ydi~
was taken,
and quarter given
cc
him,
one came
behind and
palled
hls
body thorough with
his
Lance ;
in
the
" fame manner
tnany
others were killed, after
they
had
thrown
away
their
Arms,
'' and
Quartet: g!ven them.
Samaniego
fiabbed
Pedro
de
Lerma
by night in
his
be
.
d.
" Many died fighting, with their Swords
in
their hands, of which the Captains
" were
Mofcofo,
SalintU,
and
Hernando
de
Alvarado,
befides
fuch
a number of
Spa.
''
niartb,
that
had
che
Indians
(as was
talked)
fallen upon thofe
few
that
remain–
cc
ed,
they might
eafily
have become
Mafiers
of
them
all:
But
they were
fo
bu–
,, fie,
and taken up
in
fuipping
the
dead, whom they left naked ;
and
in
plun–
,, dering the Tents and Baggage, which were not guarded,
for
every
one was em–
,, ployed in the
purfuit,
that
they had
no
leifure
to
think
of
this
advantage.
At–
"
magro,
by
reafon of his indifpofition of health, did not engage perfonally
in
the
'' Battel, but fiood on the fide of a Hill to behold the
fucceLS;
which when he
'
"' perceived to have
been fatal
to
himfe1£
he fled co the Fortrefs of
Co«o
;
where
'' being
parfued
and taken by
Gom::.alo
Pif1trro,
and
Alonfo
de
Alvar11do,
they caft
'' him into the fame Prifon, wherein
they themfelves
had been detained, and
'' held
by
him.
Thus
far
are. the
Words of
Gomara,
with which he concludes
that
Chapter.
Amongft the many remarkable pa£fages which happened that
day,
of which
fame are omitted by
this
Authour ; we fhall add others not nnworchy to
be
no–
ted. One whereof is
this;
A certain Cavalier
carrying
behind him on
his
Horfe;
Hernando
de
Sotelo
(who was
Kinfma
of
Chriftopher Sotelo)
for his Prifoner, to
w}mm
he had given
QQ_arter,
there
came
a Souldier, and lhot
him
with his Car–
bine through the back, the Bullet wounding, though not mortally, the perfon
v~· hich
rid before him. This, they
fay,
was done in revenge, for that counfel
which his
Kinfinan
Chriftopher
de
Sotelo
gave
co
Orgonno1,
advifing
him (as we have
before mentioned) to
attack
the Forces of
Hernando
Pi~arro,
when they were fickj
and
giddy with the
Air
of the Mountains. Wherefore when
one of the
Souldi–
ers cried
out ,
Here
they
hring
Sotelo ;
the Harquebufier
thinking
it
to
have been
Chriftopher Sotelo,
he <hot him
in the
back ,
fuppofing thereby
to
have performed
acceptab e fervice,
by
killing a Man
fo
generally hated. Many other cruelties
were committed by the Conquerours afcer the Battel, unworchy the Dignity of
the
Spanifh
Nation ; for more Men
~
ere
flain
in cold bloud, than
in
the heat of
the Fight.
Another piece of
cruelty
was
the Death of
Pedro
de
Lerma,
which being
in
an
extraordinary manner barbarous, is
fit
to
be obferved.
Lerma
(
as we have faid )
being
forced
to quit the Field, both by reafon of the wound he had
received
from
Hernando
Picarro,
and others, which were given him
in
the late Fight;
he
was
car·
ried to the ·H6ufe of a certain
Gentleman,
who was a friend of
his,
called
Pedro
de
los Rio1
with whom I was
acquainted
when I was very
young;
he was of as
noble,
a~d
as ancient a Family, as
any
was
in
Cordova,
of which there are
many
in that Royal
City.
A
·
certain