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Royal
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BooK
IV.
C
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AP. XXIV.
Two
Captains
of
Pi~arro"'s
Anny
k.itt
three of thofe helonging
to the Vice.-/dng; which is again revenged upon them.
Gon~alo P1~arro
enibark._s for the City
of
Truxillo.
A
Vgu.fti?Je Car-a:e,
p~oceeding
forward in the courfe of
his
Hill:ory, faith,
Thar
,
. when the Vice-kmg was ready to depart from
~itu
he difpatched a\.,ay
his
Son-in-law;
Diego
Alvarc~
de
Cuero
into
Spain
to inform his Majelty of all
Affairs
that had palfed, defrring
him
co fend him fame Succours whereby he might be
enabled
to
make
War
upon
Gonfalo Pjp1rro
;
and accordingly
Cuero
embarked on
the fame Fleet with
Va~a
de
Caftro
and Doetour
Texada,
as we have before declared.
In the mean time the Vice-king came to the City of
St.
Mich11el,
which is about
an
hundred and fifty leagues from
~tu,
where
he
refolved
t
emain
untill
fuch
time as he received his Majefi:y's farther direetions in thefe matters;' making ufe
of his Matefiy's Name and Authority in the fiyle
of all
Letters and Orders
which
he
iffued: and this place
he
judged mofi: proper
for
his refidence, being
~dvamageoufiy
fituated in the common Road, through which
all
people mufl: go,
who come from
Spain
or other parts into
Peru,
and is
a
Pa!S which cannot be avoi–
ded by Cuch who travel with Horfes or other Beafis of burthen;
fo
that by chis
confi:ant concurrence or confluence of people his numbers every day increafed.
The Inhabitants of this Town were all very loyal and well-affetted
co
che
Vice–
king, by which means, and
by
their
kind
reception and entertainment,
his
Soul–
diers increafed
to
the number of five hundred Horfe and Foot, mofi of them
in–
differently well armed, and fuch
as
wanted defenfive
Arms
made Corfiets oflron,.
and Coats of Bulls
Skins
well dried and preffed.
At the
fame
time that
Gdnfalo Pipirro
fent
Captain
Bachicao
~
ith
his
Brigantine
to feife the Fleet of the Vice-king, he
alfo
difpatched two of
his
Captains
by
Land
called
Gonfalo D iaz:. de Pinera
and
feronimo de PillegM
to raife ouldiers
in
the
Cities of
Truxill.o
and
St.
Michael,
where they remained with a Body of eight
hundred men, untill fuch time as being alarm'd with the approach of the Vice–
king, they quitted their Polls and retreated within the Counrrey, and quartered
in
a Province called
Collique,
which is about forty leagues diltant from Sr.
Michtte/
1
from ''hence they gave intelligence
to
Pip:ir-ro
of the Vice-king's march, and the
daily increafe ofhis Army,
to
which a fi:op ought fpeedily to be given before
it
pro-
ed too late. And '' hilfi: thefe Captains refided at that place, they had advice
at the Vice·king had fenc a Captain called
fohn
de
Prereyra
to the Province of
ChachapoyM,
to
raife what men that Countrey afforded ; and by reafon that
few
Spaniard1
inhabited in thofe pans,
Pifarro's
Captains did imagine that
Prereyra
and
his men would remain fecure, and not dream of any danger ; in confidence of
which they marched the very fame way afcer them, and one night feifed on their
Sentinels, and falling on them as they were
lleepiog
killed
Prereyra
and two
other
rincipal Caprains, whofe Heads they cut off; and then all rhofe
ho were
with them, to the number of about fony Horfemen, revolced
for fear,
and deda–
ring
for
Gonptlo Pifarro
returned
with
his Captains to their Quarters.
The Vice-king, greatly troubled for this
difgrac~
and rnis.fortun.e, refoh ed fpee–
dily
to
revenge it \Vith rhe like return, and accordrngly falhed pnvately out from
St.
Mirhaels
with about an hundred and fifty Horfemen, and fell in upon
che
Qparters of the Captains
Gonftdo
Di11~
and
VillegM
at
Collique;
who having
fome
few days before performed that late exploit, reffed ecure from the apprehenfions
of
any Cuch return from their enemies. The
affimlt
which was made upon rhem
was
fo
fudden that they had no time
to
provide for their defence, or to put them–
felves
in
order to fight, but every one fuifted for himfelfas well as he coold; and
fo
much
~ere
they fcattered abroad, that
Gonptlo
Dia~
fled with very fe\\ inr9 a
Province of the
Jndiam,
\
hich was not conquered, where they arofe up
againll
him and killed him ·
Htrmmdo de Ah11trado
incurred the like fate: but
{erommo
tk
Vi/legM,
rallying hi 'people, marched into the Councrey as£ r as
TrHxj/lo,
"hilll
the
ice-king refided at Sc.
Mich11rl.