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Royal

Com1nentaries.

Gomara

in

the

14

3d.

Chapter,

and

Garate

in

the

1

zth

Chapter

of his 3d. Book,

faith

That

Gonuilo Pifarro

made a

Difcovery

as far as the

Province

of

the

CharcM,

whe:e he was furrounded

with fuch

numbers of

Indians,

which

affailed

him on

all fides,

that he

was forced

to

defire

fuccours from the Marquis, who

fopplied

him therewith, both

of

Horfe and Foot, from

Co~co;

and for better expedition

the

Marquis gave out, that he

himfelf

would

go in perfon, and

accordingly

he

marched out with chem three

o~

four

days

from the

C\ty.

This Sielge, as Authours wr.ite, was

fo

~lore,

and fhaic, that the

be–

ing reduced

at

lafr

to

the utmofl: extremity, fent advice thereof to

uis,

by

the

Jnd1an1

whom they

retained in their

Service,

who

(as we have

feen before)

had

ferved for Meffengers

with

~11

fidelity

in

the like dangers,

in

confidence of

whom , they di[patched

many of

them

by

divers ways; fo

chat

in

cafe fome

fhould

mifcarry,

others

might

efcape.

The Marquis being hereby made fenfible

of

the great Difl:refS to which his Bro–

ther

Go~alo

Fifarra

was

reduced>

<lifpeeded aCaptain

with

Succours, and

gave out,

for

the

more hafte

of

the

Supplies,~

CaraJe

faitli,

tbat he himfelf

would go

in Per–

fon;

but

nctitber the

dilig~nce

\lfed

11!

fending Rdief,

which would

have

come

too

late, nor yet the

appearance which

the

Marquis

made

of going

in

Perfon,

would

have availed

toward the

delivery

of the

Spaniards,

from the

fuaits

of

that

Siege~

had

not God

mofi wonderfully appeared for chem,

and

fent the Divine St.

{ago,

the

Patron

of

Spain,

vifibly to fight

on

their fide, as he had done before at

Couo.

The Chriftia0$ feeing

themfelves thus

wonderfully favoured, and

that

in

this,

as

in

the like oc(:afions, they

had

been

ref

cued by

Miracle,

they fought

with

fnch

Cour~ge,

that

before the Succours came, they had gained

the

Vietory.

In

remembrance

of which

fignal Favour which God had performed for them, they

d~termined

to efiabli!h a Colony of Chriiliaa People

in

that place, where now

a

Cathedral Church

is

built,

and

the

Royal

Chancery

is

held,

which

is

enno–

bled

and

enriched to that degree,

in

which

we fee

it

at prefent; all which

is

arifen from the Mines

of

Potoji,

which

are about

eighteen Leagues difiant from

thence.

Blat

Tl'~lera

giving a

Relation

of

all

the

memorable

Battels

which

hap~ned

een

the

Spaniard!

and the

l»di4'Js

in

Peru,

gives an Accoant of

that

which

fought

in

chis

Province,

and

fays,

that

God,

by

his

Angel,

fought there

for

ofpel

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