725 / 1060
Boo.K
IV.
Royal
Comme'!tarie.r.
engaged in the: conqueil: of chat Kingdom, their mutual concemment.for each
other was
fudi
as
to
favour one the ocher
to
their utrnoft
po~er
;
b~
others who
would not truft: thernfelves in the Town removed far
from
1t,
and hved amongfi:
the
Jndian.r,
the which proved the more fecure courfe, for thereby
they
fa~ed
their
lj.ves, whilft many others were put to
deat~h
by .the cruelty of
th~
advers
Party.
Aod indeed
ills
was the misfortune of
Lewis
de
Rihera,
and of
Antonio
.(llvare~,,
and
· twenty four
-0r
twenty
fi~
Gentlemen mote_, who
were
all Inhabitants of the
·
~
of
PI
4
te,
which
is about thirty
L!!~gues
d1llant from
Los
Reyes,
who
_ca~e
with defign
to
ferve the
~ing
:
an~ hav~ng
paifed and endured.
great
hard~1ps
m
tbeir
uavaHs and difficulnes co av01d falling mto the hands of
Prptrro
and his peo–
ple
they
came
at length near to
Los
Reyes
,
where they receiveCI the unwelcome
Ne~s
of the misfortunes of die Vice-king; how, and
in
what manner, he was
im–
prjfoned, embarked and fent to Sea;
with this
f~d incellige~ce
they
gave them–
fe)ves forl-0ft
5
for neither durfi they advent-ure
mro
the Ctty , becaufe all the
Countr.eyhati declared for
Pifarro,
nor did
they
think
it
Prudence, voluntarily
_c.q itrufr themfelves
in
the power of
the
enemy : Wherefore every one took his
PJQPer courfe aad ihifred for h\mfelf. The like many ocher Gentlemen did, who
atne
tb
ferve his Majefiy
under
the
Vice-king,
fo
that
chey were
fc
red and
difperfed over a11 the
Countrey.
And
fome not efreeming thetnfelves
fafe
in
the
Rares
0f
Peru,
fled
to
the Mountains of
Anti4.,
where they were famnhed or de–
voqred by
TigerJ;
ochers were taken by the falvage
lndian.r,
not as yet conquered
.aP.d
facrificed to
their Idols. Thus men out of fear of falling into the hands of
!heir
Enemies precipitated tbemfelves into
def
perate
Courfes, efreeming
Bar6ari–
ian1
and wild Beafis to have more
Bowels
of compaffion than Tyrants. This dire-
. fµ'U
effeet Bad the immoderate and ungoverned Paffion
of
the Vice,king, for had
~
been a man of any temper, he had
furmount~
all his difficulties , and tiad
een defended _by_the powerful!
fuccours
of the Rich, Noble, and Perfons of the
greatetl: lnterefi:, who were the Flower of
Cozro,,
and the
Charct:U;
when on the
r:9ntrary, hboth he and his
party
were loft, being expofed to the Cruelties
-0£
War
an~
to
the mercy of their Enemies, who put many of them
t<'.>
death.
XVIII.
· '
Gon~alo
Pi<5arro
comes to
the City
of
Los
Reyes.
Several
~
.
C
itiz.§nS of
note
.
are
fut to death
,
hecaufe
the Judges
_
.~
delayed to proclaim
P1<sarro
Governour.
A
ND
now
Pifarro,
taking iliort
marches towards
the
City
of
Los Reye.r,
by
reafon of the great Iocumbrance of Cannon which he had with him came
at
length
to the Province called
Pariacaca,
where
A uguftin Garate
was lately flop–
ped
~nQ
deteined ; and .there called him before him to relate the Meffiige which
he brought
to
him;,, which
Carttte,
in
the thirteenth
Chapter
of his fifth Book
dedares
in
thefe words, I, faid he, knowing
the
danger I was in of my
life
did
in the firfi place communicate
th~
bufinefs
~
had in charge to
Pifarro
in
pri;are;
who afterwards caufed
me
to be mtroduced mto the
Tent,
where all
pis
Captains
were aifembled, and there commanded me to declare that which I had before im–
parted unto him. And
Carate
faith farther, that being informed of the mind of
Pi
f'!rro
,
he
mad~
ufe
<?f
his Letters of <;:redence .from the
J
adges, to declare
in
their behalf and m their names many thmgs tendmg co his Majefiy's Service and
for the good and benefit of the Countrey:
p~rticularly,
that
fince
the Vice-king
was embarked, and fent away,
wh~reby ~heir
defires were allowed and granted ;
That
they
~ould
make
good
unto
his
Ma
Jelly
the Treafure which
Bl1tflo
Ntmne~
Ycla
had confumed and fpent , as they had already made known by their Letters :
that a Pardon iliould be granted to the Citirens of
Co~co
who had revolted from
his
~amp
to ferve the Vice-king, which might eafily be 'granted, confidering the
J
u{hce of
their
Caufe :
And that
Meifeogers iliould be fent co
his
Majefiy, co
m..
Uuuu z
form
l..,