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BooK
IV.
Royal
Commentaries..
At another time
it
happened out, That
Carva}al
fo
unexpeCl:edly came into
the Monafrery to make another
fearc~,
That
Garf
flaj{o de
I~
Vega
was al
roger
her
furprized
not knowing where
to
retire; but haitily ran mto an empty Cell,
where
w~
no Bed nor other furniture under which he might cover himfelf; one·
ly fome Shelves of Books covered \ ich a Curtain JUfr fronting to the Door, and a
little diftant from the Wall,
fo
that a man might creep between the Shelves and
that· and there my Father chrull: and crouded himfelf. Two or three of thofe
who'came c fearch chis Houfe came into this Cell ; and obferving it be void and
empty and believing chat che Shelves were fafrned to the Wall,
fo
that nothing
could
~acer
ben een, they went out again, faying, he is not here : Many of thefe
hazardous Adventure my Father ran, whilfr
Gon~alo
Pifarro
was at
Los
Reyes,
during
which time his
riends, (ofwhich he had many) interceded for him with
Gonr_alo
Pifarro
to
obtain his pardon, and at length prevailed
to
have him pardoned as to his
Life upon cond1ci n chat he fhould not fee him nor come into his prefence ; fay–
ing, 'chat he ought not to be a.dmicted thereunto, who had
vi~lated
all the
La~s
of
Friendfhip,
ociety and relanon of Countrey-men: but havmg thus far obtamed
1
is Pardon, he came o'1t of che Monallery, and retired privately into a Chamber,
where he remained feveral days, unrill che importunity of Friends
fo
far prevailed
wich
Pipirro
in
hi
behalf
to
grant him a complete Pardon, and admiccance co his
prefence ; after which he kept him always in his company, under the notion ofa
oner, noc fuffering him co go out of
his
Houfe or eat from
his
Table, and
when in the
ield, not to lie out of his Tent; and in this condition he continued
untill the day when the Bartel of
Sacfahuana
was fought. And for
this
caufe,
in
regard he wa always as a rifoner wich
Gonfalo Pifarro,
none of the three Authours
make any mention of him in their Hillories ; but I who was
fo
nearly concerned,
knew all chefe p1rticulars with the fufferiogs of my Father, who being difpoffef–
fed ofhis
£lace for che [pace of
clu·ee
years, both he, and I, and the refi of
my
Brethren, being eight
in
number, were forced to live upon the Charity and Alms
ofwell-difpofed perfon . This neamelS which caufed
Gonpilo Pjptrro
to keep
my
Father to him,
as to fecure him chat he fhould not efcape from him ; and the
reafon why he entercained him at
his
Table, becaufe he knew chat he had not
wherewith to eat at any ocher place, and he was fo generous as not to fuffer
him
to have the obligation to any but himfel£ And fuch was the neceffity and wane
which my Father laboured under at that time, that, after the death of the Vice..
king, being in the
Cicy
of
PerH,
he bought a Horfe ofa ouldier, who
as called
SAlintU,
and therefore they called the Horfe
Salinilla1,
which proved to be one of
the finefr Horfes in all
PerH,
and cofi: eight hundred pieces of Eight, which makes
nine hundred and fixcy Ducats ; and though he had not one farthing of his own
to pay for hi.m,
y~t,
trufl:ing
to
the kindnefs of his Friends, that they would ei–
ther lend or give him fo much money, he adventured
to
buy him
5
to which end
a Friend of his, \ ho had noc more in the whole world, lent him three hundred
pie~es of~ight,
but\\ hen
Gonfalo Pifarro
underfiood that he had bought this Horfej
he immediately gave order to pay the fame out of
his
own Efrate knowing
that
Garfilaffe
had nor wherewith
to
make fatisfaetion.
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CH AP.
XXI.
How
and
in what
111anner
an
irreverent
inrpiety againft the
mofi
Holy
Sacrament, and other hlafphemozu words were
punifhed.
Pi~arro
and his Party nominate
Meffengers
to he fent into
Spain.
JT
~emains
now for us to relate the Judgment which befell
PorrM,
which was
this ; Three
~onths
after the profanation he
had
made of che Holy Altar, he
\~as
fent by
CarvaJltl
co
Huamanca
upon fome certain occafions, and palling a little
Brook efW acer not above two foot
deep,
he guided his Horfe, being tired and
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