735 / 1060
BooK
IV.
Royal
Commentaries.
fuance of his
Office ,
bein
g a Captainand a
~hief
fiel9
Officer
:
of which
bere–
afcer
in
profecution of this
Hifiory.wefhall
give
fome mfiances
of
my own
know–
ledge, and
fi1all
make fom
e remarks upon the behaviour
of
feveral
Cap~aios
of
Pifarro,s
party which I received from the report of thofe who were
familiarly ac-
quainted
with their aetions and perfons.
.
We have mentioned before, how
Licenciado
Alvare~
procured the Liberty of the
Vice-king
Blafco Nunne:G
Yela,
and how another Ship
joi~ed
with them,
whereon
bis brorher
Yela
Nunne:G
was embarked, and that they failed together to the Pore
of
T1tmpiz,
where they landed,
~nd ~retted
a. Court of
Ju{lj~e
1
for that as the
Hillorians
fay ,
he
had
a
claufe
m
hlS
Comm1ffion that he nugnt bold a Court
with affifiance of one Judge or Co-affeffour with him : by vircue whereof they
difpatched feveral Warrants, 9rde:s and
M.a~ifefi~
into divers
parts ;. Cetting
forth
in
the
Preamble thereunto a relation of
hIS
1mpnfonment
and of h1s efcape, as
likewife of
the
coming of
Ganfalo Pifarro
to
Los
Reyes,
with all other
particulars
which had happened
untill
that time ; and in
fine
concluded, that
all
his
Maje–
fl:y'
s loving
and
loyal
ubjeets
fhould
come in and partake in this caufe.
In
put..
fuance hereof he fent di ers
aptains
to
Pt1erto
Yie10
to raife men, as alfo to
Saint
Michael
and
Truxillo
;
and
upon
the fame errand Captain
reronirno
de
Prereyra
was
fent as far as
PacamurH,
\Vhich the
Spaniards
call
Bracatm1ro1:
And moreover he
-directed his W arrantc; over all
the
Countrey , to bring in Provifions , and
all
the
Gold and Silver which was found
in
the
Exchequer,for
~bat
hisMajell:y's
fervice re–
guired to have
ic
employed againfi fo many Enemies who were
in rebellion
againft
him: but in
regard
that in all the Cities
and places to which
thofe Commands
\\'ere fem, there \ ere different parties, and men fiood
varioufiy
a:ffelt:ed ; fome
whereof wem
to
Pifarro ;
others, to
fly
from him, and not to join with his
facti–
on, betook themfelves to the
mountains,
and by fecret and by-ways
came
at–
length co the Vice-!Qng
equipped
with Arm , Horfes and ProviGons, according
to every man's
abill~y;
which much rejoiced and comforted the
ice-king
to
fee
the affeCl:ion of the people to him
in
the t4ne of his
difrre£S :
bµt this
fatisfacti–
on continued
not
long,
for, as
ill
fortlUle
would have it, he was
forced
-by
Her–
nando
B1tChicao
rp retire
into
the In-land
parts
of the
Countrey ,
by which means
his
Friends
left
him , and he bimfelf full:ained great inconveniences and
hardlhips
unrill the time of his death ; as we !hall fee
in
its due place.
·
Gonf'1lo
Pifar,.-o
having intelligence that the Vice-king
was
in
Tumfl~,
he though
it
not
convenient
or fafe
to
fuffer him
to
reft there; and therefore I.enc fome
Ca'fltains
with heir forces to dillurb him and caufe him to remove his quarters
from thence. The
Orders
and Warrants which the Vice-king Hfued forth were
for the moll: part betrayed into
the
hands of
Pifttrro,
being brought co him
by
hofe \l\'ith whom they were iotrufied; by means of \Vhich
Pifa'l'ro
received
in–
telligence of all the deGgos of the
ice-king;
hich
to
prevent he difpatched
his
C~tains
feronimo
de
PillogM,
Gonfalo
Dia~
and
Hernando de Alvarado,
t
fcoure
all
the_
~oaCl:
along
to
the
Northward, and intercept the people who
1
ere
going
to
101~ rhe~felves
with the
Vice-king :
and
thereby be
fuppreffed
the forces of
the Vice-king before they could get head , and overcame
them
without a BatteI.
Of
t~Je
Actions
performed
by
Bachicao·
in
Panama.
Licen–
c1ado Vaca
de C.afl:ro
comes to
Spain,
where
an end
i5
put .to
alt
his negotiations.
The
Vice-k.;ng
retires to
QQ1tu.
HErnando. Bacf:icao,
as we have faid, having
furprized
two Ships
belonging to
the
~ice-km~,
an9 forced him co
retire
into the In-land
pares
of the Coun–
trey, he purfued
his
V01a
0
e to the
Port
of
Panama·
and in his way he met
with
two or three other Ships ,
but
whofe
they
were ,
and
with what
they
were
laden,
for