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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
lV.
CH AP.
xxx.
Gon~alo Pi~arro
purfues the
Vice-k..ing
fo
clofl
that
at
fe~gth
he drove him.
out of
Peru.
Pedro d
Hinojofa
faz/s to
Panama,
wzth a
Fleet of Ships belonging
to
Pi–
~arro.
W
E have
b
ef?rementioned
~ow
that the Vice-king marched into
f2.y_it1J,
and that
Ps.ft-trro
purfued him at che heels, though his ouldiers were not
le!S weary, nor wanting of provifions than the others, but rather more, becaufe
the Vice-king marching before, carried away all the provifions of the Countrey
wherefoever chey came; howfoever
fo
eager was
Pifarro,
and
fo
much concerned
to put an end
to
rhefe labours, that he continued his purfuit day and night, as
C1t~
rare
reports
in the twenty ninch Chapter of his fifrh Book in thefe words;
Gonptlo
Pip?rro
purfued the Vice-king from the Cicy
of
St.
MichMl's
(which was
the place from whence
he
made his
rerreat,)
as far as the
City
of
f2.t!_it1t,
which are
an
hundred
and fifty
leagues diftant
from
each other; and
[o
hotly
did he
carry
on
this work,
thac
there
was
fcarce
a day but
they
fuw
ea"11
other, and the
Scouts
often difcourfed together ; and to be
in
greater readinefs, their Horfes remained al..
ways fadled: but if
either
Parry was more vigilant than the other,
it
was the Vice·
king's,
for his men
flept always
in
their
Clothes, holding
their
Horfes
by
the Halcer,
without Tents or
Horfe~clothes
co cover them; but
necefficy
made them ingenious,
and taught
chem a
remedy, in
chat fandy
Councrey where were no Trees
co lhelcer
them,
v.
hich was this; So foon as they came co the place where they intended
to quarter that night,
rhey
filled certain Baggs or Sacks, which they carried
wich
them, with
Sand,
and
having made
a
great hole
chey
threw rhem in, and covered
chem
with
Sand, which
they rroad and trampled on
and
made
ic very
firm,
fo
that the
Horfes could
lie
thereupon
with
much eafe.
But befides all thi,
bocn
Armies Coffered much for
wane
of provifions,
and
efpec~ly
Pif_arro's
men who
came
in the purfuit for
the
Vice-I
ing wherefoever
he
pafied raiJed
all t:he
JnrJj1U11
of the Counrrey, and the
Cacique1
or Governours, and cook them with him, that
fo the Enemy coming after, might find all places difpeopled and unprovided
:
and
fuch was the great halle which the Vice-king made that he took with him eighc
or ten of the bell: Horfe
V\
hich coold be procured
in
chat Counrrey, which
v
ere
led by
Indidns,
and in cafe any
of
his Horfes happened co be tired on
rhe
way he
maimed or difabled him
in
fuch
manner char
the Enemy could make no ufe of him.
And now in the way Captain
Bachicao
returned from che Voyage which we former–
ly
mentioned, and joyned with
Gonfalo Pip:irro,
bringing a recruit of three hundred
and
fifty
Men, twenryShips and good ll:ore of Cannon, and faiHng along che coafr
which
i
nearefi to
~itu,
he landed his Men in a place not far from the Forces
of
Pifan-o )
with
hich
additional auxiliaries
Piyarro's
Army amounted to eighr
hundred
men,
of hich
many
were
principal
perfons of quality and note, as well
Inhabitants as Souldiers, who came
in
"ich fuch franknef5 as no
fiory
can paraf..
lel under
the
Go
ernment
of a
Tyrant
and an
Ufurper.
In
rhat Province aU
Provifions were very plencifull, and therein not long before they had difcovered
fe\Teral rich Veins ofGold, out of
91.
hich the
Spll11iudf
hofe lors fell chere, rai·
fed
vall: fums,
"hith they
r fufed co
yield
co
Pif
Pro,
and a]fo denied che fifths to
his Majelfy or ro
be
accountable for
the
Treafores
of
dead perfon .
And here
it
was that
Pifm-ro
received
intelligence that th
ice-king
was advanced forty
leaguei
from
~itu,
and \ a entred
imo
a certain Town called
PJSjfo,
within the
mern–
ment
of
lJenAlc1!far :
And ere he refolved ro purfue him ro that place,
i
hich he
accordingly did w·t:hout
delay or
imerruption; for
G~"f".ilJ P~arr~ lbi~
bur
very
little in
fL!:!Jt11,
and ha\ ing
overraken
the Enemy, fevera.1
skirm1
es hap
ned
benl[.'een
parties on each
fide
in that place, which is called the
Ho~
lliver.
A~d
the Vice-king having advice that
Pjfarro
was near at hand, he
qu1
ted
Pafto
10
great hafte, and
marc~ed
up into the
~ounrrey
umill
~e
came
to
the
!CY
of
Po~
payan,
and
P iftlYYO
hav10g
{hll purfued
him
for
(\Venty
e1g .
eagues farrher, \.\
h~re
fin rng