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IV. .
Royal
C01pmentaries.
Gonfafo Pifarro,
having
rec~ived ~dvi'.ce
of
t~e
defeat of his Captains,
~nd
that
· cl
e Vice-king daily increafed m numbers
of
hlS
men,
and
firengthened
m Arms
a~d
Ammunition .. for War, concluded
it
nec.effary with
~11
poffible fpeed to de–
fhoy his Forces, before greater aid came
to
lum from
Spam
and
ocher
parts
of
~he
Jndie.r,
which would be landed
~t Tu'!'pi~
or at the P<:>rts
thereabou~,
towards
which
places
the
Vice-king
was
drawmg
h_1s Forces;
and
m tbe
mea_n
ume
he epdeavou–
red to intercept all
Packets
of
Advice
froi:i
pain,
and from
h1
~a1e~y,
the
'~ant
of
which would greatly difcourage the mmd of the
ene~y: w~th
this
re oluuon,
he prepared all things for a Bartel, on
th~ fuccei~
of which he
~mended
to
hazard
his
fortune in cafe the enemy
\youl~
fiand
~o
1t;
a~d
accordmgly Or<lers were
i{foed out
to
the Captains, the SoulJ1ers received their pay, the Horfe were com–
manded co
march
before
t~
Truxilto?
and
Pifarro
himfelf
with
the chief of his
Commanders remained
.beh1~d
to
bnng up the
R~re.
.
.
.
About
this
time a Bngannne from
Arequepa
arnved m the Port of
Lim11,
which
brouCJht:
an hundred thou fand pieces of Eight for account of
Pifarro :
at the fame
time
t>
alfo
came in
another
hip
from the Continent, belonging
to
Gon;alo
M11rtel,
and which brought his Vvife, Children and Family
to
be thence conveyed
co
Couo
where his habi'- tion wa . This happy accident fo encouraged
Pi;arro
and his
Party, that they grew very_
high
and infolenr thereupon,
~od,
as
if
fortune had
been on their fide, they believed the whole world was their own. Thus far
Au–
guftine de C11r-ate,
to
which
Diego
Fernandez:.
adds, that they became
fo
proud, and
made fuch vain boafiing, that fome talked as
if
Gonfalo
Pi;arro
was
to
take
upon
him the Title and
Crown
of a King; arguing
in
his
favour,
that
all Kings and
Govemours took
their original and beginning by force ; that the Nobility of the
world defcended from the haughty and unjull:
Cain,
and rhe poor and meek from
Abel:
that
it
plainly appeared
in
hleraldry which blazes the Efcutcheons
of
great
men
that their Arms contain nothing but Weapons
of
War and
Tyranny.
Fran–
cifco
de
Carvajal
was much
of
this opinion, and
in
confirmation hereof,
he
defired
that the OldTellament !hould be reviewed, and the lall: Will of
Adam
there conful–
ted, whether therein
he
bequeathed the Kingdom of
Peru
to
Charles
the Emperour
or
to
the
Kings
of
Caftile.
All which
Gonfalo Pifarro
hearkned unro with much
fatisfattion, being pleafed to hear the flatteries
of
his Abettors. Thefe are the
words of
Diego
Ftrnande:i::.,
which I have extraeted
verhatim
out
of
the thirty fourth
Chapter
of
h"
firfi
Book.
On
the
Ve!ftls
'which lately came
into
Lima Gonfalo Piptrro
laded
great
quantities
of Arms and Ammunition, and thereon !hipped an hundred and fifty
feleet:
Soul–
diers. And
to
give the better countenance and authority to his
Affairs,
he car-
1
ied DoClour
Ccpedd,
one of the Judges, with him, as alfc
[ohn de
C11cere.t
the Ac–
countant General, fo that by the
departure
of
Cepeda
the Court of
J
ufiice was dif–
folved, there remaining no ether Judge at
Los
Reyes
beftdes
Cepeda
;
and farther
to
preve~t
the.coming
f01ch
of
other
O~ders
or Warrants,
Pifa~ro
carried the Roy–
al Seal
w1~h
lu:-n. And becaufe the
City
~f
Los
Reye.s
was a place of great impor–
tance to hi:n, he thought fit co confide
it
m the
hands
of fome faithfull perfon
\vhom he could trufr, and accordingly made choice
of
one
Lorenfo de Aid.Ana
t~
"'horn he delegated the Government of the
City,
being a prudent, wife and'dif–
creet Gentleman, and one \\ho was very rich, having a
great
Efiate and interell:
in
Arequepa,
with whom he left eight hundred men for guard and
fafety
of the Ci–
ty;
and
Pifarro
went
attended with
all the
Inhabitants of the
Gey,
and Gentle–
men who
ha::f
any command over the
Indians,
and cook {hipping
in
the month of
.Jl.!arch
1545,
and failed to Port.
Santa,
which
is
a1?out fifteen leagues from
Tru–
:....-1110,
where he landed and remamed fome days unt1ll his
other
Forces could come
up, becaufe
it
was a time of the year when the pafiarage was green and well
grown;
but lefi he _lhould opprefs and !:mrchen die
Spani11rd,1
by his long
abode
there,
~e
remo':'ed
~1s
Camp to the I rovmce of
Collique,
where he remained for
fome ume,
~null
his .Forces
could
come
up co him; and then making a general
Mufier of lus Men,
1t
appeared
on the Mufier-rolls that his· numbers amounted
.t.mto more. than
fix
hundre? men, Horfe and Foor: and though the Vice-king
was
equ~l
m number, yet
f!'
f
'":ro
had much the advantage both in his Arms and
p~eparau<?ns
for War, and m
his
Men? who
were
for
the
moll: part vecetane Soul–
-cliers, tramed up to War, had been m many Baccels, and feen much of Attion;
.and belides, they knew the Councrey
and
the difficulc paffages of it, and were
accufromed to the dangers
and
labours of War, and had been praetifed therein
y y
eve