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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
, for in
~egard
they
found that
they
could not prevail on
Get'onimo CHrbano
~
nor cor–
rupt h1m
by the
great
Offers they made
to
him;
and
that the Seamen and Soul–
d~ers
being
Biflayner1
were faitbfull to
C11ero
their Commander;
the Judges chen
refolved to reduce chem by force: which when the Captains underfiood they re–
folved
co make
fail
out of the Port
1
and pafS
cheir
time upon the Coall 'untill his
MaJefiy's Orders came to direet
fucn
courfe
as might
tend co
a
Setrleme~r
of
rhofe
difturbances. Farcher they confidered, th:it afwell in
the
Cicy as
over
all
che
King..
~om. t~ere ~a~
a Party well affetted
to
the Vice-king, who had noc been concerned
10
hlS
1mpnfomnent: and that many of the true and Joyal Subje& co
his
Majefiy
cam€.
daily
in
to
their
fide, and flocked aboard the Ships. That the Fleer was
indifferently well provided, having ten or twelve rounds of Iron Shoe and four of
Copper, and above fourty quincals of Gun-powder: moreover they had four
hundred quinrals of Bisker, five hundred builiels of Mayz, and a good fiock of
falt
Viltuals,
which
Provifion would ferve for a long time; and then of Water
they could not be hindred, that being
to
be
had along the Coafi in all parts
and places: bur then in regard .their force was weak,
not
having abo e r ency
five Souldiers on boord, and that the number of their Mariners "as not fufficient
to manage ten
fail
of Ships, they fee fire to four of the leifer Veifels, and alfo co
cwo Fi01er-boats which
lay
on che
fhcar,
and
fo
with
the
fix remaining Ships
they made
fail
into the
Sea.
The four Ships burned dmvn to the Water, be–
caufe there was no poffibility of going out to quench chem ;
but
the two Boats
were in a manner faved, for being taken in rime, the Fire was pot
out,
and they
received no damage but what was eafie to be repaired. Tne fix Ships failed
away, and made for Port
GHaura,
about eighteen leagues to the lee-ward of
Lu
Reyes
,
where
tl1ey
provided themfelves with Wood and Water, as their neceffi- ,
ties required; and with them they carried
Licenciado Vitca de
Cajlro;
and
being
at
Guaura
cl}ey
attended to hear the News of what had been the Hfoe of the
Vice–
king's imprifonment. The Judges having
advice
hereof
5
and confidering that it
was
not prooable the Ships fhould
fail
at a
far
diftance
whillt
the Vice-king
~as
in
fuch danger of his Life ; they refolved
to
fend Forces both by Sea and by Land
to furprize the Fleet by fame
way or
other; in purfuance of which defign they
gav€ ic in charge
to
Diego Garcia
de
Alfaro,
an
In])abit~-OJ
of that
City
,
and who
was well experienced in maritime Affafrs;
to
repair
the"
Boats which were
faved
on the ilioar : which being accordingly fitted and lanched ioro the Water,
t~y
armed
them
~
irh thirty
Mufquetiers,
and failed with
them
along
th~
Coafr ro
lee-ward : and in the mean time
(ohn
de
Mendof'l
and
Pentnra
Yelrran
were
fent
. away
by Land with another Detachment, and boch
chefe
Parries having an eye
to
each other , they obferved that the Fleet
\'Vas
at an
Anchor
in
G11a1tr11-,
whkh
when
D iego Garcia
Caw,
he
privately
in
the
night
conveyed himfelf behind a
rock in the Porr, nor far diflant from
t11e
Ships, where chey coulq nor be feen
5
in che mean time thofe who were afhoar began to fire fome Guns; which they on
board taking to be fame Signal afhoar which chore of che Vice-king>s Parry had
made who were fled, and were defirous to embark with chem;
Vela Nunnez.,
was
ordered in the
Boat
co go
afboar,
to .difcover what the matter
was;
and being
jufi at the fhoar fide, but not landed, he was purfued in
th~
rere
by
DiegtJ
Gtrl'cia
and his men ;
(o
that being
cut
off from the rell of the Fleet,
J/ela
Nunne~
was
forced rn
yield
himfeJf and Boat into the hands of the enemy; after which they
feor
to
Common
Cuero
,
telling him, that unlefs he yielded, the Fleet into t.Oeir
hands, they were refolved to kill both the Vice·king and
Ye/a
Nunne~:
which
Cu–
ero
fea ring, furrendred .up his Ships againft the confent and opinion of
Geronimo
C11rhano,
wh~
with the fingle Ship he had commanded, fet fail
and
made ro–
vvards the firmLand: for that two days before
Diego Garcia
came thither,
C11ero
had
commanded him co
fail
down the Coafi, and
feize
all che Ships they met, to pre–
vent
them
from
falling
into
the hands of the Judges :
who,
from the very time
chat
the Fleet departed from
Loi
ReyeJ,
refolved
to
cranfporc the Vice-king co a certain
Iiland about two Leagues diftant from that Port, there co fecure him from the
violence of
the
Agent's
kindred
who had accempted to kill him ; and therefore
they fent him away with a Guard of twenty men upon a fort of Boars made of
dry Rufhes, which the
Inaians
call
Henca.
And, having advices of .raking the Fleer,
they
determined to fend
the
Vice-king to his
Majefry,
in the condition of a
Pri–
foner
with
ill
tbe
Informations
and
Depoficions made againfr him which
Licen–
ciAdo
A lvl'frez,
one of the
Judges,
was
to
carry ; and for his reward, and
to
bear his
charges"