625 / 1060
Royal
Comrileniaries.
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III.
C H A P.
I.
Of the Conquefl of the
Charcas .;
and
of
other Battels
be–
tween the
Indians
and the
Spaniards.
B
y
the Death of
Almagro,
and the Abfence of
Hernando
Piy-arro,
all the
management of the Conqueft, and the weight of the Government
of
Peru
was charged
on
the {boulders of Marquis
Pi_farro,
to whom
God had given a fufficient talent of Wifedom to jupport the care
both of one and the other, had not evil Counfellours interpofed, to
the
dillurbance and confufion of every thing ;
for
the Captains (
as
we have mentioned
in
the preceding Book) being difpeeded away, and amufed
with new Conquefl:s, the Land was at refi: and quiet ; amongft which Com–
manders,
Gonr<.,a/o Pir_arro,
Brother to the Marquis, was fenc to conquer the
Collao,
and the
CharcM,
ana people dillant about two hundred Leagues to- the South–
ward of
Co~co
;
with nim the greateft part
of
thofe Cavaliers were fent, who came
in .with
Don Pedro de Alvarado
to gain new Countries; for thofe already fubdued,
were onely fuch as were Dependances on the Citie.s of
Co~co
and
los Reyes,
which,
together with all the Vallies along the Sea-coafi, as
far as
Tampi~,
were divided
· amongll: the
firll:
Conquerours, \x;rho had had
a
hand in the Imprifonment of
Ata·
hualpa.
Wherefore it was neceifary to enlarge thofe Conquell:s, chat ·out of
them
provifion might be made for the fecond Adventurers, who emred in with
D. Diego
de Almagro,
and
Pedro
de
Alvarado.
Gon~a!o
Pifarro
entred on the
CoUao
with
a
good number of fiout and
valiant
Men ; at
firfi
the
Indians
made little oppofition, but afterwards when they found
them
well entred into the
CharcM,
and
at a
hundred and
fifty
Leagues di!l:ance
from
Co:uo,
they then plied them clofe,
and
frequently engaged them in
Batte1~:1
in which there were lolfes on both fides; and the
Indians
aimed chiefly at their
Horfes ;
for
they were of opinion, that
if
they could
kill
them, and force the
Men to fight on Foot, they fhould have much che advantage, and over-power
them
with
their Multitudes,
At
length it happened, that after
a
bloudy
Fight,
in
which
many were
killed
on both fides, that the
Spaniards
gained the
Victory:
To profecute which on all fides, feveral parties took divers ways, and amongfr
the
reft,
three Companions agreed to go with
Gom:,alo Pipzrro.
One of which
was
G11rfilaffe
de
la·
Vega,
another
[ohn de Figueroa,
and the third
Ga/par [ara;
all
which had Commanas over
Indians
in
that Town, which is now called the City
of
Plate,
and in the
Indian
Tongue
Chuquifaca,
and afterwards
they improved
the'r