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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
111.
CH AP.
xv.
Gonzalo Pi<;arro
heing entred into
Quitu,
writes to the
Governour, offering hi-5 Perfon and his People to ferve
hi111.
The Governour's An[wer thereunto
;
and what
Con~
ditions the Governour offered to
Don Diego de AI–
magro. ·
G
O~lo
Pifarro,
and his Captains and Souldiers, received the relief which was
brought them with gratefull acknowledgn;1ent: But whereas they perceived
that
the Garments
which
were provided, were onely fufficient to cloath the
Chief
Commanders, they refufed to accept them, or (as
Carate
faith in the
5
th
Chap–
ter of the fourth Book) to change their Iiabits, or
mount
on Horfe-back,
endu–
ring and fuffering equally with their common Souldiers;
and
fo
in
this manner
whlch
we
have mentioned, they entred one mormng into the
Ciry ·of
f2.!!itu,
and
went direetly to the Church to hear
Mafs?
and to return thanks to Almighty
God
who had delivered them out of
fo
many, and fo great miferies..
'
Thus
far
is
the Relation given by
Garate;
to which may be added, what I have
underfiood from the tefiimony of thofe who were Eye-witneffes of
what
farther
paffed
in
chis
matter ; which was this
:.
The twelve perfons which
brought
the
Prefents to
Gon:uilo
Pi2arr9,
perceiving that neither
he,
nor his
Captains,
would
ac..
cept
of the Cloths
which
were brought them, nor yet
make ufe
of their Horfes,
but
chofe
tq
enter the City bare-footed, and naked; they agreed
all ro
put
them–
felves
in
the fame guife and fafhion to partkipate
of
the Honour, Fame
and Glo–
ry,
which thefe perfons
had
acquired
y
their patience
and
fufferings1 by
which
they had overcome
fo
many, and fuch immenfe labours ; the City applauded their
Arnbaffadours for their conformity thereunto;
in
which manner, after the Encry
was made, arrd Mafs was faid, the people congratulated the Arrival of
Pifttrr<T
with all the joy they were able to exprefs, but yet atrempered with fome grief
and
pity
to fee them in that lamentable condition. This Emry was made abouc
the beginning of
June in the year
1 )
42,
having fpeot
in
this Enrerprize cwo years
and a halfs time,
thou.gha cercain Authour by mill:ake fays, that they \-'ere not
more than a year and
half
both
in their going our, and in their return home.
Du–
ring the time that they remained in the City, every one provided for himfelf che
belt he was able. And
Gon~alo
Pifarro
receiving informations of what had pa!fed
fince his departure
, was given
to
underfiand what Revolutions had lace]y happen–
ed,
nam~Jy
the
D~
a.thof his Brother the Marquis, the InfurretHori of
Don
Diego
de Al;;agro,
his difobedience and rebellion againfl: his Majell:y, the Arrival
of
Doetor
Vaca de Caftro
for Governour
of
that Empire; and chat he was then on
his march againfr
Almagro
with an Army, in which all
th~
friends and party of his
Brother
the
Marquis
were
joyned. All which being conhdered by
Gonz.a!o Pifarro,
he thought
it
not fit
for
him to be backward
in
that Service t his Majefiy,
in
which
aH
thofe Gen lemen who had been his Comrades and Companions,
had
been engaged. Wherefore he wrote
to
the Governour, giving him a relation of
the
Hardfi1ips he had full:ained and fuffered in his Journey; and laftly, made
ten...
der
of his
Perfon and People
to
ferve him in quality of Souldiers under his Com–
mand.
In anfwer whereunto, the Governour
a!fured
him of his kind acceptance of
the
good
will
and affettion '
ich
he demonfl:rated
to
his Majefiy's Service, and
re–
turned
him thanks
for
the affillence he had offered both by his
°'
n
Perfon, and
with thofe Forces \tvhich had
fo
long been trained up in Military
Dif~ipline,
and in–
ured to the
Suffi
rings and Hardfhips of War. Howfoever, he intreaced him
as
from himfelf, and required
him in
his Majeftis Name to continue
fiill
in
~itu,
and
there co refrefh himfdf
after
the miferies he had fufiained, umill fuch rime as
he