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to
revolt unto
A !magro.
Hereupon the Governour refolved immediately
to
give
them Bartel, wifhing he had had the
po~
er of
[ofhuah
to
command the Sun to
flay his courfe.
.
Herewith the word \ ·as given
ro
march
~irectly
againfl: the Squadrons of
A lma-
gro,
who upon thtir
firfl:
motion ordered his Cannon
to
play upon the Enemy, and
·co
fiartle them
in
th
firfl: onfet ;
but
Franctfco de Caravajal
obferving, that if they
kept a direet courfe upon the
Enemy,
they
fhoul~
receive much damage from
their Cannon which were many, and
very
good; d1reeted them another way
un~
der
the
cover~
of a Hill :
But
having paffed this fhelter into
the
open Field,
fo
that they remained expofed
to
the Enemis Cannon,
Pedro
de
Candia,
who com–
manded the Artillery, !hot over them , fo that they received oo
d~mage
; which
when
Almagro
faw and obferved, he immediately fell upon
Pedro
de
Candia,
and
killed him with his Lance upon the very Cannon; and being full of rage and
a.Ager for this piece of treachery,
~
leaped from his Horfe, and mounted on the
nofe of one of rhe Guns, and
w~·
.ti
the weight
of
his
body lored
it
in fuch man–
ner, as to make
it
bear on the
E
emy;
amI then ordering the Cannonier to give
fire
thereunto, he placed
his
fl1Qt
nidll:
the Squadron of
Vaca
de
Caftro
,
'
·hicb
raking them from the Front
w
vhe
ere, as
Ca1:ate
confirms
in
the
'.J
8th Chapter
of his fourth Book, and
Gomara
m Chap.
1
50.
bur do not fay how
many
were
flain
thereby,
which
were feventeen Men;,
which
unlucky fhot, had
it
been
fol:
Jo
ed
by
others
with
the like fuccefs,
they
had needed no other force,
but had
ured the ViCl:ory. according
t-0
the affurance which
S1td'i1e){,
the
Serjeanc-Maj0r
ad
given ;
but all was
loll: by
that
treachery
which
Pedr~
de
Candia
had
a6ted.
For we rnufi know that Captain
Pedro,
having confidered that
Hernando
Pifarro,
who
was
the Perfon that had affronted and injured him,
was
imprilhn€d in
Spal-n,
•
( as
we have formerly mentioned,) and thar
by
reafon
of him he had
fided
with
the
party of
Chill.
And that the Marquis, who by
his
Power
and Greame1S
ha m c oppreffed him, was now dead, he judged hirnfelf fufficiently revenged
both o
P,
and of the other : And that now fince there was a new Govem0ur,
it
was his
~a
courfe to return
unto
the Obedience and Service of
his
Majefty
that he.might not utterly lofe all the
~opes
and merit. he had acquired
by being.
ufefull m the Conqueft of that Emprre. And on
this
Motive
it
was . that he
fent fecret intelligence to the Governour not to fear the Cannon, for he
~ould
fo.
order
it,
that
he~
fhould not need co apprehend any damage
ot
hurt
from thence.–
On
confidence of which promife the Ga_vemour refolved not
to
delay the Batte]
though
Pedro de
Candia
did not attain the end he defigned.
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