743 / 1060
BooK
IV.
Rtryal
C01nmentaries.
who being almo!l: familhed wich hunger
~
were forced
to
~ill
and eat
th~ir H~xqs
for want
of fufienance, and ind d \ · re
m
gr ater neceffir1es than the
1ce-k1~g
s
Souldiers, becau e
B!1-1{co
Nunne~,
wherefoever he
cam~,
efiroyed eyery
thu~g
which he thought
might be
f
benefit
to
the n my wh1 h followed
h1m.
In
th
purfuit, the rincipal hat" ere taken, \'ere ut to
de~th
by
Carvap:tl;
namely ,
Montoya
an
Inh·
bi
cant
f
Piura, B riu:nno
of
Puerto, 1'cu10, Raphael Vila,
and one
Ba!tafar.
And farther to re-inforce
Ca:va;al,
fixcy
Hore
w
re fem
un~er
the
c~m
mand of
apcain
[oh» Acofta,
confill:ing.
of
t!1e rnofl:
fd~
and choICe
ould1e~s
that were in
1i·
Army, by
v~
hi
h
the Vice-king' as
fira1tn~d
to
the
lall:
extre~t
ty;
which
Diego
Fernande~,
in he fourty
firtl:
hapter of
hIS
Book,
expr
fies
10
thefe word.
Thus did the Vice-king, fay he, march ay and night
with
the fmall remainder
of
his
Forces· and finding no other proviGon
in
many places, than onely a fe
Herbs and
R~ots,
did often , in defpair and
fury,
carfe the
ountrey
and
the day
in
which he enrred into
it ;
and the people \'\·ho were
fem
to
im from
Spain,
that
had
fo
bafely de erred and betrayed him:
but
{ohn de
Acoff
a,
who was lately come,
and
his
Men fretb preffed hi
1
fi
hard, chat he came clofe to him a little before
his arrival at
is
quart ~rs
of
Calva;
where coming fomerhing late, and having
marched hard, he thought he had time enough
to
take fome little repofe.
Bue
(!>hn
de
Acofta
be
ting
up
bi
quarters about break of day, fell upon the
ronc
with
fach a furprize , that he wok many of th ir Men and Baggage, onely the
ice–
ki~
had nme
to
make his
[cape
~
ith
about fevency of
h'
bell: Horfe. After
hich
{ohn de
Acoff
a
made
a
retreat, and returned co the main Body, fuppoiiog
that there was litde more to be done upon the
nemy. By which means the
poor Vice king tyred and famifhed came
to
che Province and his uarters
in
Cal–
va.
A
d in regard two of
·
ptain , namely,
feronimo
de
la Serntt
and
GaJPar
Gil
advanced \ ich their
om anie and
lour before hi
, he fanlied that they
V\
enc \Vith intention to p
fiefs
a certain paf on the\ ·ay
~
\ hich when he
as
at
Piura,
he had fem befor , and c ufed
to
be made of
imher \Yith great labour,
u
on a thick
r
k
hanging ov r
a ri
er near
[,1mbo
Bl~mco
i rhe
rovince of
Am–
hoca;
whi
h being roken down \ 'Ould require {(
e
ti
e
to repair ; and
ha
ing
a
fi
picion that thefe Men \ 'ent before
to
poffe~
chi I
a~
, and
by
fuel
a
iece
of fervice to reconcile chet fel
~e
\'\in
Picarro;
he re ol
·e
co prevent them
by
taking away their lives ,
an
~
·o
i
g
f
he
ut
it in executi n , cauling their
throats
co
be c cduring the litde µa
of le1 ure whi
h che
emy had
i
him :
fo
that
no marching
Yi
th a lit
Li
more eat
e
and
fc
cunry than before,
he
came
at
length to
Tomebambi.i
;
''here having taken
u
hi
quarters, he
exe med
another piece
f
cruelty
on his MaJ r
eneral
Rodn ode Ocampo ;
for
though umill
that time
he
ad efiee ed
hi
to be hi
intimate and
fall
friend ; y t
the
like
e dncholy fancy of
ufi
i
ion
and
jea
ouGe entering into
hi
head,
a
did
of
rhe
cher
two
aptain
he incurred the fame defhny a they did , though chey had
follO\
ed and
arrended him
i
a11 hi
mi fortunes.
. he death of thefe per on caufed ariou
1fc urfes and
J
udgemenc in
Pe;·u
fome condemning, and others xcuGng the
ice-king therein. From
Tomebamb;
Bl-:ifco
11nne
proceeded
till he
came
to
.f2.!!itu,
"ithout interruption
and
ith–
out that want and fcarciry under which he ormerly laboured.
And
having in
hi
'''ay to
~ttu
received informations againll:
Francifco
de
Olmos,
that
he
and other
~ho am~
fron:i
Puerto Vre10
had been the
Authou~
of falfe report
to the dilfer–
v1ce of
ht Ma1efl:y;
he no ooner came to
the
City,
but
he examin
d
the
umh
oft
ofe information which "ere brought againfi thofe
ho came from
P1ur10
r-
i–
e10;
t
e which
bein proved, he confolted
the
matter \X..'ith
Licenciado
Alvarez
and
then }mmediate.: e>..e uted
Jufl:j
e
upon them, cutting off rhe head ofCome,' and
hanging
others under the
oti
f
Trayt0r
to
the
in ; amongfi
th
fe ,, ho
fuffered \ ere
Alv~ro
de
Carva;al,
aptain
Ho1eda
and
Gome:.t.
Eft1tcio:
but upon far–
t1
.er proof of .the mnocence of
Francifco
de
Olmos,
he [pared his life. Thus far
ic;
related by
D;cr,o
Fernande~ P_alenti~o:
but
f:.:opez de Gomarra
in chap.
I
68.
vriring
of the
d~th
o{
~hofe
u tarns,.. gives us this account, \vhich is extra ed
'l:erbatim
out of h1 Book m thefe ,,·ord_.
Piftttro
Ce.nt{ohn de Acoft.a
with fixty light Horfemen in purfuit of
Blafco
Nunne~.,
to
engag~
him, or for e him
to
a
.haHy
retreat, accnrdingly he marched
to
Tome–
bamha
w1t.h fear an
trouble, and
10
want of all things
:
and having a fufpicion,
th
t
{erommo
de la Serna
and
Gatpar Gil,
who were cwo Captain of his , kept a.
private
7
7