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·BooK
Ill.
!{oyal
Commentaries.
And now approaching...near to the City of
~itu,
they gave notice to the Jn..
habitants of their condition; but the place
,being .
almqfi
_difpe?pl~d
by
.r~fon
of the Wars raifed by
Almagro,
and
by
the abfence of its principal
C1uzens,
and by the few Merchants wfiich were therein; they were
fo
poor, that all the
Cloathing they could make was not fufficient to fupply the wants 9f
Pip:trro
anq
bis company: All the
ftock
which the
C.icy
could
ma~e,
being on.ely
fix:Suics
of Apparel, cbhtrlbuted by feveral
per~ons
; one brought
~
Cloak
~ ~norh~r
a
Coat
another a Walkoat, another
a
pair
of Breeches, another
a
Hat and Shirts,
and
all
of feveral Pieces and Colours, which ferved to cloath
Gsrt:l:.al'{]'if arro,
and
his other five principal Officers
~
for
it
was
impoffilile
co provkle
futhcient furni–
ture for them all.
In the whole 1 own there were onely
twelve
Horfes
left,
fot
all
ihe
refi
wer~
lent
to the Wars
in
Servic~
of
his
Majefty ; on thefe they laded Provifions;
and food for them, and would
have
fent all the delicacies in the World, had
that place afforded them ; for
Gon~lo
Pir_arro
was
the
moft beloved
Man·
in
Peru
;
and indeed his Nature was
fo
affable, and his Qeporcment
fo
obliging,
that he rendred himfelf acceptable
to
Strangers, wherefoever he came; and how
tt1uch more
to Friends and Companions?
.
- Twelve
of the moll fubllantial Citizens were appointed to carry the Pref
ents,
and therewith travelled thirty Leagues from the Cicy before they met
with
G~n
ialo Pi2arro.
It
is
not to
be
imagined how much
joy
and
facisfaetion
was expref–
fed at this meeting, accompanied
with
fuch a flood of tears upon
rehearfal
of
the dolefull Story, that
it
is
hard to,determine-which paflion either of joy or for–
row was the moft prevalent; for
Pifarro
and his Companions were tranfported
with an Exce!S of joy and comfort
~o
fee themfel\1es delivered from thofe dan–
gers and iniferies out of which
they
once believed
it
irnpojlible co
efcape.
The Citizens on the other fide grieved and lamented to fee
in what
a miferable
and
fqualid condition
Gom:.alo
and
his Friends returned , and to hear the dole..
.
full
fi9ry
of thofe who perifhed with Famine, and
in
what manner
they
had left
many
of their Companions alive in the
Mountains,
and expofed
to
dye
wirh
hunger.
But at lengm confidering that there was no remedy for \-vhat was pafr,
they
comforted each other, drying up their Tears,
which
little
availed ~
.
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