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Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
di~ion
to deal with
c~e
En.emy
~
feveral
<?f
his men being killed and left alhoar he
failed to
Cart1tgena'
with bis Ship
an~
Fngats, attending an opportunity to
inc~m
..
mode the Enemy. but Do&?ur
Ribera
and
Pedro
de
Hinujofa
appeafed the peopl
th.e bell:
~hey
could; and leavmg fome force and Captains for
fecurity
and
defence
of
the
City,
they
returned co
P
1tnama.
e
CH AP.
XX
XIII.
Blafco
~unnez
Vela
recruits himfelf
ir_z
Popayan.
Gon–
~alo P1~arro
pretends to goe for
Qg1cu ,
hoping
hy
that
111cans to caufe
hio
remoryaJ froni thence.
The
Vi£e-k/ng
goes in quefi of
Pedro
Pu
Iles.
~X
TE before mentioned that the Vice-king was
in
Popayan,
where, to keep
him.
V
V
felf
in
a6tion, he engroffed all the Iron of
chat
Province ; to work
which
he compelled the Smiths to come in and
fee
up Forges, and in a iliort time made
above two hundre9 Fire-arms, with Crofiers and Armour proportionable
to
them,
and
then
he wrote a Letter
to
Se6aftian,
Governour of
Belalcapr,.,
and co a certain
Captain of
his
called
[ohn
CahrerM,
who was then
by
order of the faid Gover..
nour
ernploied in a
new
ConqueA: of the
lndirm1,
wherein he gave them a
parri01..
far inrelligence of all matters which
had
happened
to
him fince the time of
his
firfi
entrance into
Peru,
in which
was
comprifed
the
Hifiory of the
Infwreltion of
GQJJfalo Pifarro,
who had forced him
Co
abandon the Countrey ; and
thac
now he
refolved
to
return again upon him ; to which end,
that he
might have a compe–
tent
Army ,
he defired them to come and join
with
him , in which
they
WQuld
doe mofi fignal
forvice
to his Majefiy : and that having overcome and killed
that
Tyrant,
they might largely fuare
in
the pof!eilions of
Peru,
which would be much
better
than
all the
Conquefis
they were now emploied
in.
Belides
which pra.
mifes, the better co encourage them, he told
chem
rha·t
Diego Centeno
was
actually
on the Confines of
Peru
in
his
Majefiy's
fervice; chat every day his forces
encrea..
fed ; fo that now,
i
n cafe the
Tyrant
were but attacked on the other fide,
it
would be impoffible
f.orhim
to
hold out. He alfo fem them Warrants to
cake
out of
his
Majefry's
Exchequer in
feveral
Towns
and
illages nea them the
furn
of
thirty
thoufand
Pefa.r
of Gold, for payment of the Souldiers.
T
e C prains ha–
ving received thefe Orders, obeyed,
them
with all readioefs;
and
wich
hundred
Souldiers well armed, came, and Kilfed the Vice-king's hand; the
hich encou–
raged him to fend the like Orders co the new Kingdom of
Granada, Cartagena
and
other
parts,
demanding fuccour
and
affillence from
them ;
fo
that in a
fh
re
rime
he had
got
a
Body
of .four hundr©:i men, all
reafonable
well armed ;
but
this foe...
cefS was· again tempered with the
ill
Ne\~'s
of the lofs of his Brother and of his
two Captains,
rohn
de
G~an
and
rohn
de
Tllanez.-;
at which he
was
much troubled,
becaufe he had great expc;ttations from them. On the other fide,
Gonf alo Pi-
f
arro
had nothing co trouble him , but onely rhe thoughts of the
Vice-king,
for
be could not think himfelf fecure, whilfl: be lived, and was at the head of
an
Army : And becaufe
he
could not come at rhe Vice-king, or march
into
the
Countrey
where he was for want of
Provifions,
which were very fcarce in
thofe
pares; he
gave
out , that he would march into
the
CharcM
to
fupprefs the Infur–
reCtion of
Diego
Centeno;
and
to
leave Captain
Pedro de PHelles
wi£h three hundred
·
men
co
guard
chat
frontier agaioft the
Vice-King,
in cafe he fhould
make
an
ac..
tempt thereupon. And
to
put a better colour on thi'5 feigned defigo, and make
it
more publick, he named his Captains and Souldiers who were
w
goe with him,
and tliofe who were co remain behind; and made provillons for
maintenance
of
one and the
other.
Accordingly he marched out of
~ittt ,
and
rook care
chat
information
hereof
uld be
difpatched
to
the
Vice-king; co perform which, an
ill-man, whom the Vice-king had fent for his
Spy
into
rhofe parts, \
~s
very in(hu·
mental :
for this Rogue had > in hopes of fame
greac
reward from
Ptf arro,
d1fco-
,..ered