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BooK
IV.
Koyal
Commentaries.
rane
S~uldiers
well
appointed
and irmed, and
fifty
wer~
left ab.card,.
for
~efence
of
their Ships. And
fo
he
marched along the
Coafi~
bemg flanked w1ch
his Can·
non,
carrying aboard the Boats belonging
to
the Ships,
much
to
the
annoyance
of rhe Enemy , in cafe they fuould make an aifaulc upon th,em. He gave farther
order aboard Ship that
fo
foon as -they {hould come
to
an
Engagement; that
they
fhould prefently hang up
"f/ela
Nunne~ ~nd
the ocher
Pri~or~ers
which they
had
ta–
ken.
Pedro de Cafao.r
feeing the refolut1on of
Pedro de HmoJofa,
ca~e· OU~
t-0
meet
him with intention either
to
overcome or dye : and both Parties bemg come
witl~n
Mufquet <hot
each
of other; all the
Clergy- m~n
and Friars came out
of
rhe
City carrying a Wood
~f Croff~
liefo:e them,
"':hich
(erved for Banners
and
Colours, and being all clad m mourning with fadnefs m their countenances, cryed
out with loud voices co Heaven and
to
the People
for
Peace and Concord
a–
mongfl: them; faying,
Is
it not a _great {hame and pity, that
you
who are Chri–
fiians and are come
to
preach the Gofpel
to
Infidels, fuould imbrue your hands
in rl{e
bloud of each
or
her,
to
the common ruine and calamity of
all.
Thefe
words being) uttered with great om-cries and exclamations, put both
fides
to
a
fiand
j
and co look each on the other ; untill che religious Troops interpofed be–
tween
both Parries, and began
to
treat of a Truce, and
to
create
a
right under–
fianding. Accordingly
Hinojofa
Cent
in his behalf
Don Balthafar de Caftiiia,
Son of
Count de
Gomer
a,
and the People of
Panama
employed
Don Pedro
de
Cabrera
for
their Agent, both
~atives
of
Seville.
It
was pleaded in behalf of
Hinojofa,
that
no
reafon could be given, why they iliould oppofe his landing, or free admittance
into the City;
for
that his melfage and bufinefs thither was to give fatisfa6Hon
to the Inhabicancs for the Tyrannies and Outrages which
Bachicao
had committed
on them, and to buy Cloths and Provilfons of them
for
their Money, and fupply
themfelves with other necef!aries
for
their Voyage. That they had received
firiet Commands and Orders from
Gony.~Jo
Pifarro,
not
to
give chem the leafi caufe
of
offence, nor
to
fight, unlefs thef were compelled thereunto
:
And that
Co
Coon
as
they had made their provifions, and re·fitted their Ships; they would fpeedily
depart
in
quell: of the Vice.king, and qmfe him to embark for
Spain,
according
to the Sentence which the Judges had given concerning him: and thereby
(re~
the Countries from thofe feats and molefiations which he had caufed
by
rowliog
up and down
in
all
quarters. And in regard
he was
not
in
Panama,
they had no
bufineiS which could detein them long there , and therefore they entreated chem
not to force them to an engagement with them ; which according
to
the Com·
mand of
Pifttrl*o
they would avoid by all means poffible ; but in cafe Ehey were
forced to fight , they would then doe their beft not co be overcome.
On
the other fide
it
was alledged in behalf of the Governour
Pedro de
Cafao1;
that
his
entry into their Countrey
in
that
hofl:ile manner could not be jufiified ,
though it were given for granted that
Gonr~lo
pjf_arro
had·
a right to the Govetn–
menr. That
Bachicao
had given the fame promifes, and made as
fair
pretem:es as
be did , and yet
Co
foon as he
bad
gotten poffeffion
1
he
rlien
committed
all
thof
e
fpoils and murthers for which they pretend now
to
give fatisfaetion. The Com–
miffioners on both fides hearing thefe Allegations, and being defirous to make an
acco~modation,
did agree chat
Hinojofa
fhould be received afhoar, and have
free
-admmance and
ent~rtainrnenc
in the
"ty
for the
fpace
of
thirty days, with
a
guard of fifty Men tor fecurity of his
p
on ; that his Fleet, with the refl: of his
Souldiers fhould in the mean time fail
to
the Illes of Pearls
and take with them ·
Ship-carpenters, and cut Cuch Timber as fhould be ufefull
fo;
repair of their
V
ef–
fels; and that at the end of thirty days they fhould return to
Peru.
Thefe Arti–
des
~eing
agreed unto by both Parties, they were confirmed by Oath, and Hofia–
ges
given.
·
Pedro
de
Hinojofa
accordingly came
to
the
City
with his fifty Men· where he
took a houfe, and gave publick entertainment
to
all comers and
goer~
; and his
P~ople
fported and treated friendly and
famili.·
arly with. all the fohabitants.
Augu–
ftme
de Carate
,
in
the thirty fecond Chapcer of his fifch Book
faith · for
what
we have farther to add in this matter
is
upon his Authority
?
That
thr~e
days had
fcarce paffed before all thofe Soaldiers who had been raifed by the Capcains,
{ohn
Gu~man
and
'John
d~ Tllane~,
revolted for the moll: part
to
Hinojofa;
according
to whofe example the idle and vagrant
perfons
of the City., who were not Mer–
~hants~
and fuch as had no employment, lifted themfelves Souldiers with
Hjnajofa,
mtendmg for
Peru:
fo
that the Captains of the Vice-king finding 'herofelves for-
A
a a a a
faken
.
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.