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III.
Royal
Commentarie.r.
.Antonio
de
~innones,
and his Brother
Suero
de
~innonn,
and his Coufin
Pe ro.
d'e
~innones,
-
who had been an old
Sould~er
in
J:a!J,
and were all
th~ee
near in
Km–
dred to the Governour,
Ga/par
rara, Diego
Ortt:l:..
de
Gu~man,
Garcza
de
Melo, .
who
loft his right hand in the Bartel,
Pedro de
lo~
R!os
a Native of
Cord07;a, Francifco db
Ampuer<J, Don Pedro Puertocarrero, Pedro
de HmOJofa,
{ohn Alonfo Palormno, Don Gome:/:.
de
Luna
the Elder Brother of
GA-r filajfo
de
la
Vega, Gome:l:..
de
A lvarado,
Gafpar
de
RojM,
Melchior Yerdugo, Lope
de
Mendofa,
[u~n
de
Ba~6ara11,
M iguel
d:
''!
sn:n~,
Ge-.
ronimo de
Aliaga
Nico/M
de
Ribera,
anc:j
Gerommo de
Ribera,
who for d1{hnchon fake
we have
in
the'other part of this Book called
iUbera
Senior, and
Ribera
Junior.
All which and many others, whofe Names we cannot call
to
mind, did that
day in the
B~ctel
fignalize their Valour in an extraordinary manner, for fighting in
the front of their Companies, mofi of them were wounded.
In
!ho~t,
there was
not one Man of note in all
Peru,
as
Gomara
affirms, but was engaged m the Bartel
·or
d at day on his Majell:y's fide. On the King,s party three hundred
Spaniard.r
were flain, many
a1fo
were killed on the other, though not
fo
great a number
7
the Bartel was very bloudy ; the flaughter fell much upon the
Cap~ains,
of which
moll: of chem were killed; four hundred were wounded, of which moll: dyed
with cold chat night,
it
happening to freeze very iliarply.
.
Th~fe
are the Words
of
Gomara,
and therewith he ends the
15oth
Chapter of his Hillory.
Of
A!magro's
fide two hundred were
flain,
fo
that
Gomata
with much reafon
terms
it
a bloudy Battel; for of fifceen hundred Men on both fides, five hundred
were fiain, and five hundred wounded ; of which laft, four hundred were of
che
King's fide, and but one hundred of
Almagro's.
There was one of the King's Souldiers fo cruel, chat afcer the Battel was ended,
he kilted eleven of the
AlmAgrians
in cold bloud ; of which evil Aet he made
great boafr, faying, chat in fuch a place they had robbed him of eleven thoufand
pieces of Eight, in revenge of which he had killed eleven of chem.
Many other things of this nature
pa~d
that nlght ; and the reaibn why
fo
ma–
ny
of thofe wounded were frozen to death, was, becaufe the
Indians
finding them
unable to help and defend themfelves, made bold
to
firip them of all their doach–
ing, leaving them naked, and expofed to the weather, without regard to either fide
or
parry,
of which there could no dillinction be made in the night ; and if there
had, yec the
lndian1,
whofe bufinefS it was to pilfer, would not have forborn
011
·
any fmall confideracion, or complement to either fide. Nor could the Conque–
rours for the prelent take that due care of their wounded , beeaufe the Carriages
with their
Tents
not being come up, they were all forced
to
lodge
in
the open
Air; onely they made a fbift to fet up nvo Tents, wherein they made an Accom–
modation for
Gome~
de
T ordoya, PeJro
A nfures,
Gome~
de
Alvarado,
and
Garp"lajfo de
la
Yega,
who were all mortally wounded ; others who had received fome llighter
hurts, endured the open Air, \ hich caufed their wounds fo to ftnart, that
it
was
grievotis
to
hear the groans, fighs and ·cdes which they Uttered. N or did the
In–
dians
fpa_re
thof~
wh?
w~re
fled out of the Bartel, takibg the courage to purfue
and affail Men m their flight;
fo
that they killed
[ohn
Balfa
on the way, with ten or
twelve others of his companions, without any regard or ref
pea:
to his Qgality or
Characrer of Captain-General; in like manner they killed many other
spaniards
who fled out of the Battel in divers parts : But fo foon as it was day the Gover:
11our fem abroad to bring in the wounded, caking care to have their wounds dref.
fed:
And as for the dead, they buried. them together, in four or five large Graves,
which. were made for
them, mto which they call: chem all without difrinction,
excepting onely
Pe~ro.
Alva.re~Holguin
and
Gome;?;., de
Tordoya
de VargM,
with fome
other noble and principal Perfons, whom
they
carried to
Huamanca,
and there ce–
lebrated their Funeralsµ. ith what decency they were able. Above a hundred
Horfe, and fifty or. fixty Foor, fled from the Bartel, and efcaped
co
the City of
H uamanc'!;
but bemg purfued by thofe few who remained Mall:ers
of
the Field
¥:'ere agam
def~ate_d,
they yielding up their Horfes and Arms upon conditions of
Qt~rter
for their lives.
.
An~
as that day they performed an Aa: of Charity
in
the
burial of the Dead , fo
hk~w1fe
they perforn:ed an Act of
J
ull:ice in punHhment
of the O!fenders ; for havmg found the Bodies of
Martin
de
Bilbao
and
A rbola<>ha
and
Jli.YJC]ero1,
and
.1!4artin Carillo
amongfi the Dead, who cried
ou~ . in
the Battei
on_purpofe to be killed, that they were the perfons who had A!faffinated the Mar–
qulS.; and though they were then cut
in
pieces, yet according
to
a new form o
Ju(hce, they were afterwards drawn and quartered, the Cryer at the fame time
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