4000003870

BooK

Ill.

Royal Commentaries.

AP.

XIX.

The good Government of

Vaca

Caftro ;

the peace

and

quietnefs of

ru ;

the caufe and original of other

Troubles.

Diego Almagro

Junior, being dead, and al! the Complices and .Heads of

that party being either put to death, or bam(hed,

~he

whole Empue of

1:e–

r11

began to enjoy peace and fetdement, the name and

mter~fi

of that

Almagrian

Faetion being totally extinguHhed.

Judge

Vaca

Caftro

~emg

pru~ent,

and

difcreet Perfon

all his aCl:ions, governed

with

much

Equity

and

u{hce, to the

great fatisfaction and contentment both of

Spaniards

and

Indians,

having

eQablilh~

feveral Laws

advantageous

the Welfare of both Nations, that the

Indi–

a11-s

themfelves rejoyced in fuch happy confiitutions, and efteemed them equal to

thofe which had been made by their

IncM.

Likewife the Governour befimyed

fuch

Plantations of

InrJJans,

which were void and forfeited

for

Rebellion, on per–

fous who had well deferved for their Services

his Majefiy

the late War:

lie alfo encreafed the Poifeffions of others, or exchanged them for thofe which

were better in other places, or

Cities,

where they were moil: pleafed to chufe

thejr habitation. At that time many of the Inhabitants of

Charca&

tranfplanted

themfelves and Families to

Co~co

amongO: whorn my Lord

ilaf{o de la

Yeg~

was

one, who (as we have faid formerly ) had left the Province

Tapac-ri

to fettle

himfelf in the Province

~chua,

which belongs to the Nation

Cotanera,

and

ftuftm4mpallpa.

And though

the

Govemour in the Divifions he made proceeded

with all che equality and caution imaginable, as was apparent to all die W orld

yet many were difcontented for want of having Lands, and Plantations of

Indians

~llorred

them, which thev believe and prefumed to be

due,

for all their Servi–

and Labours they had fuftained in the Conquefi of

Peru.

Amongll: thefe dif–

contented terfons there was a certain Gentleman called

Hernando Mogollon,

born at

Bada10~,

o whom we have made mention in the third Chapter of the firfi Book

of our HHl:ory of

Florida.

This Gentleman prefuming that he had well deferved

and performed great Service in the Conqueft of thefe new Countries, and par–

ticularly at the Battel of

Chupa;,

where he fignalized his bravery in an extraordi–

nary

manner, of which

Yaca

de Caftro

himfelf was a Witnefs ; for which finding

he had no reward, or Lands, or

Indian

Servanrs divided to l im, he went and ap–

plied himfelf to the Governour, and told hirn plainly:

Sir, In

thu

Co.untre:;J,

your

Lordjhip

well

~ow.t,

all Pe()p/e eat

from

the

Laho11r1 of

Mogollon,

and

he alone ftarve.t

with hun,ger.

And in regard that he

one

thofa

who

di.flo-vered

Florida,

and

forward and aEl-ive in other important Conquefts which have

/Jee~

acquired

the Crown

.of

Spain ;

and laftb,

pre{ent

i:"n

the Battel

Chupas,

where he fought under

J()Ur

Lordfhip'.t Standard; it

is but reafon

that

fame

remermhranc8

Jht;H/d

be had

him, who hath not forgotten his Duty anti. Seroice to his Majefty.

T~e

Governour cooGdering well the Merits of the Man, and that

asked

nothing .but

~hat

was very reafonable, he bell:owed upon him a fmall {hare of

Lands,

.u~habited.

by.

Indians.

And a an expedient to quiet the minds of other

complauun and indigent Souldiers, of \vhich many were unrewarded· and

pre

~nt

a farther 0utiny, he imitated the. exaf!lple of Marquis

Piftt.rro,'

o on

the

~)Lcafion

d1fpeeded feveral

o npames

1th thetr Captains,

conquer

a.nd

.o~!S

divers other pa:rs of

ch~

Countrey ;

which means enlarging their

er–

ntones, every Man might obtam

fame

Inhencance and Dominion over the

Indi–

an$•

And accordingly he gave order o C ptain

Pedro de Vergara

to return to

his

Province of

Ptrc11m1tru,

here he had made fume rogrefs

his

nqueft, when