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Royal
Commentaries.
Hav!o
thi
(i
n
i
his Eye, he
fent
for hi Brother
G~n2:.alo,
w?o
was then
in
the
CharcM,
e
Joyed
in
the fettlem nt of a
new Colony
m the City of
~late,
and of that
·
vifi
n
of
Indian
Subje&,
and rule
over
~hem,
as was
~aln
to
hIS
~ot
and
ofieffion.
Gonz..rtloPifarro.,
at the Summons
of.
his
Brother
repaired fpeed1ly
to
co~co,
where the Marquis then
refided; and.
havmg there .treated
o_f
the Con-
u
of
Canela
he prepared
himfelf
for that adventure, fhewmg rhere10
he
fame
rwardne s,
~d
p
rfonal
bravery,
as he had done in other
ncerprifes
of the like
·
narfu~o.eco
h levied above n o
hundred
Souldiers) of
which
one hundred were
Hode,
and a like number
f
Foot; with which
he. marched five
hundr
d
League
(
~
hich
i
the di&mce
between
Coz,co
and
~i.tu,)
where
Pedro de P1e–
ellu
w
'then Governour.
In
his way thither he met\
: ithmany light SkirmHhes
aod
Encounters
with the
Indians,
which appeared in Arms; but
chofi
of
H11a–
nHcu
put him fo hard to it, (as
Carate
reports
in
the
firfi
hapter of his fourth
Book , )
that
the
Marquis was
forced
to
fend
him
f
peedy Relief
by
Fra11cifco
de
Chave1.
Gon~lo
Picarro
being delivered out of
this
danger, and
from other of le£ mo–
ment, arrived at length at
~itu,
where
Pedro de
J!uelles
yielded
all Obedience
co
the
Commands of the Marquis, providing
him,
as
was
the Office of Gover–
nour1 with all things neceffary for that Expedition, together with a recruit of an
hundred
Souldiers, fo that his
numbers
were three
hundred
and forty in all, of
which one hundred and
fifty
were f:lorfe,
and
the refi: oor.
Moreover he
had a Retinue of four thoufand
Indians,
who were
bden
wich
Arms, Provifions,
and
other neceffaries
for
this Enterprife, fuch as
Iron,
Hatchets~
Macch,
Cords, and Bas-ropes, Nails, and wooden Pins, to
ufe,
as
accafion fer–
ved: They alfo drove with them a Herd of about four thoufand Swine
/
and
Sheep of the
biggefl:
fize that
than Empire
afforded, on which they ladea part
of their
Ammunition
and
Baggage.
Pedro
de
Psulles
was ordained and left in
~itu
in Qg_ality of Deputy Gover–
nour, and
Piy_arro
having reformed all Diforders, and fettled maaers on a good
Foundation of
Rule
and Government; he departed from
fl.t!jtu
about Cbrilhnas,
in the Year
1
5'
39.
Thus did he march peaceably, and was
kindly
received, and
treated
by the
Indian1,
through
all
the Dominions
belonging to the
IncM,
till
at
length
he enrred into that Province
which
Hiftorians
call
2.ftixos.
And
in
regard
that
Lop~
d8
Gomara
and
Carate
do
fo
well agree
in
the ReTation
of this
Adven–
tnre,
that
their
very
Words
are almofl: the fume; and becaufe
I
have often heard
the particulars of this
Difcovery,
from the Mouth
of
chofe
who were prefent
with
Gomutlo
Pi~arro
at the very aetion;
I
fhall repeat the Summ of all that
paffed,
as
it
hath
been delivered
by
clivei!rsRelations.
It is
cerra~
that in the Province of
f2.t!_ixos,
whi<i:h lies .North from
fl!!.itu,
great numbers of
lndian1
prefenred themfelves
in
a warlike pofiure in oppofirion
to
Gom..a/o
Pifarro;
hue fo
foon
as they difcovered the
many
Spaniard1,
and the
Horfe which came with
hiru,
they immediately retired
wit!hin the
Countrey~
from
whence they never
more
appeared.
Some few
days
aftepwards
there happened
fo
terrible
an
Earth-quake,
that
many
Houfes
in
thofe Villages
where
tHey
then
were, fell
to
the ground ; the Earth opened in many places, and
fo
terrible were
the Lightnings,
and Thunder, and
Co
very quick,
almofi without Jntermiffion,
and
fo
fierce
were the Rains, which poured down
like
Buckets of Water; chat
the
Spaniard1
much
admired at the
nature
of that Climate,
fo
different to any they
had ever feen
in
Peru.
After this Storm was
over
2
which continued about forty or
fifty
days they
prepared to pafS the fnowy Mountains; for which though
they
had
mad~
good
Provifio~,
yet
the Climate was fo extremely cold
1
by the great quantities of
Snow
which fell, that many
Indi.ans,
who went min in their Clothing were
frozen
to
death~
The
paniards,
that they might make hafte out of that 'snow,
and
~old,
and
fevere
Region,
l
ft
their Cartel,
and
provifions
behind them
ex–
pech~g
to
find
fufficient
fu
lies of all things, at the next place, where rhe
I;dians
m~ab1ted.
But
th~
matter
f
ucceeded otherwife, for having
pa!Jed
the
Moun..
tams,
th~y
emred mto a
Councrey
fo
barren,
and
fruitlefs, that
it
was void o
all
Inhabitants;
w~erefore
doubling their Journies
to
get out of
it,
they
came
at length co a Provmce, and People,
called
Cumaco,
fituated at
the
foot
of
a
Hill
1
H
h h
wh·c
6oi