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IV.
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Royal
Commentaries.
being clear'
d
of
their Enemies, they
arrived
fafe at
LoJ
~eyes
;
but when they catne
thither, they found chat che Vice-king was
made
a
Pnfc~ner, an~
embarked
and
fent
away into
sp~in.
As we fhall
underfiand
more parucularly m
the fequel
of
this Hiftory.
·
.
This delay of forty
days
in
buildin~
the V
effel!
wa~
the caufe
of
all th.e mif-
chief
\~
1
hich
enfued ;
for during
that
ume
the
V1ce-kmg
was
made a
Pn~oner,
,, hich had
otherw
ife
been prevenced
had thofe
Gentlemen opportunely
atnved
:
for had
it been known
that
perf~ns
of tha,t.
Qi~lity ~ad
revolted
from
Pifarro,
and
were
come
from
Couo
to
joyn with the \
ice-kmg,
1t
would
have
prouglic
fo
great
a
reputation
to
his
affairs, chat
none would have dared
to
have touched the Vice–
king,
or declared for the
P~rtY
of
Pif arro..
And
a?
fome Authours report, the
people feifed on the
Vice-kmg and
put
him
on
Sh1p-bo~rd,
onely
~ut
?f
fea~
to
fecure him
from
Gonfalo Picarro,
who
they heard was on h1s march wtth mtent1on
co kill him. But
tne[e
G~entlemen
of
Co~co,
finding, contrary to all expettation,
that
the
Vice-king
was
fent away, every man
fhih:ed
for himfelf as weH as he
could;
f0me
of which remaining in the City, we fhall have occafion
co
difcourfe
of
them hereafter.
On the other
fide,
Gonf alo Pifarro,
perceiving
that
chofe
who
were
men
of the
..greatefi: interefi and i10wer
in
the Army .had relinqui led
is intereft, he
gave
himfelf
over
for
lofi,
and, as the
Hifiorians repo
t,
refolved
to
return to the
CharcM,
or
co
retire
into
Chile
with about fifty of th mo
faithfull of his Friends
and Comrades, who, he was
aifured,
would fiand
by
him ro the
lafi :
but
hilll:
he
was meditating of thefe
matrers,
Pedro de Puel/eJ
came
to
him,
and brought
the
news of the departure of
the
Vice-king, which
was
fo
much to the
advan
age
of
Pifarro,
that he with new courage and
triumph
returned to
Co~co.
The
JndianJ
wnich
belonged to thofe who revolted he appropriated
to
his
own
fervice, onely.
thofe who were in va1falage o
Garfilaf{o de la Pega
he bellowed on
Pedro de Puelle.r,
and
gave up his
Houles
co be
plundred
by
the
Souldiers,
one of which after ards
intended to have
fet fire to
them, having
a
fire-brand in his
hand
to
that purpofe,
'and had
certainly
effeCl:ed
it, had
he
not
been
prevented
by
another of
a b
teer
-and a
more
mild
temper
and
difpofition, who faid to
him,
What hurt
have
thefe
Houfes done
you
?
if the
Mall:er
were here we might revenge our felves upon
him,
but what evil have thefe Walls deferved
?
This
word
gave
a
flop
to
his in–
tention and faved the Houfe ; howfoever they plundred
it
from the top to the
bottom, not leaving any thing in it which was' 'Orth one farthing; and
turned
out
the
Indian
Servants both Men
and
Women, charging them not
to
come within
the Walls
upon
pain of death : howfoever they permitted eight perfons
to
remain
therein, namely my Mother, and Sifter, and
a
Maid-fervant,
as alfo my
felf,
(for
my
Mother would rather have died than have been without me) and
{ohn
Je
Alcoba~a
my
Tutour, with his Son
Diego,
and his
Brother, and
an
Indian
Maid,
which
they
would not deny
me
the
fervice of.
--
{ohn Alcobafa,
being a perfon of a good
life
and
exemplary
piety, void of
paf–
fion and
worldly
interefi,
gained
that
refpetl:
and
favour
amongfi
them,
that
they
would not take away his life; the friendfhip we had a ongfi feveral of them,
faved
us
alfo ;
for
many of thole who adhered
to
Pi~arro
1
ere yet Friends to
my
Father, and would
.fay,
turning
to us, what have
thefe
Children and old People
done,
or
what pumfhment have they deferved
for the faults of
another? Howfo–
ever after this we had certainly perifhed with
hunger,
had not the
I nc11s
and
fome
Ladies
of
their
Family,
who were related to
us,
fent us fecretly and'
by
private
ways, fome Food wherewith to fupport our
felves;
but fuch was the fe r and
dread they had of thefe Tyrants, chat the Provifion was fo little as was
fcarce
able
to fufiain us.
. A
cert~in
Ca"Gique,
who was under the command of my Father, called
D on Gar–
cia Pauqui,
vd10.
was Commander over two Plantations, which are fituated on the
Banks of the
~.iver Apurim11~
feven
lea~ues
difl:ant from the
City,
one f which is
called
H:iayllan,
was more kmd and.
faHhfull
than all others relating
to
us; for he,
~ot
fearmg
the threats t?ey had
given, adventured
with
danger of
his life
co
re–
lieve us, and car:'e one
mg~t
to our Houfe, to give us notice that we {hould lit up
and watch the rught
following,
for that about
f
uch an hour he would fend us ·n
t':'·ency five Bufhels of
A(ay~, w~ich
he
accordingly did; and abouc feven or eight
nr~hts
after
h~
fent us
~n
the like quantity, which was a fufficient provifion ro
relieve
us dunng
~he
eight
months of
our famine and refiraint, umill the time
S fff
that
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