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Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
Palentino
fays,
that
it
rained all night, that they paffed
many
rocky
la
•
great Rivers,
fo
that many times their Horfes \; ere forced co take a rounding \an
by
th~
fide
~f
fieep
Moun~ins,
and
corning to
the
bottom
they unged
imo
RJ.
vers, m which manner havmg marched all
the
night, they loft fe eral 1en
Horfes, who were fo difabled and left behind chat they could not come tian
enough to the Bartel, and fo foon as
it
\:
·as da} they found themfeh es
withi~e
league of
~itu.
Thus
far
are the
words of
Palenttno.
.
a
• The
reafon which moved
t~e
ice-king
to
cake chis troublefome march, ,, as
in
defign to charge the Enemy m the Rere; bur as
Carate
faith he did not
be
lieve
that either
t~e
\
ay was
fo
bad nor
fo
Ion ; for
Yhen
he mo ed is
Camp~
hew~
not then aoove
t~ree
leagues fror_n
~uu,
and yet
\'ith
the compafs
they
took
1t
proved at leafl
e1ghr
leagues : this errour was fatal
to
the ice-king . for
whereas he fhould_ rather have kept
his
Men and Horfe fre(h and
fie
for engage–
ment, they
were
mfiead thereof fo hara!fed and tired "'
ith their long
march of
eight leagues over Defarts and uopaffable places, that they had need of long rell:
and repofe
t~
recover
them ;
but where a
misfortune
and
deiliny
is
intended, the
Counfels which are deligned for good are converted to ruine and dellru ion.
CH AP.
XXXIV.
,
The Batte! of
~tu,
wherein the
Vice-~ing
Blafco Nunnez
was defeated and flain.
T
HE Vice-king
entring
into the
City
of
~itu
found no
refillance, and there
it
was told him by a certain Woman that
Pifarro
was marching againfi him,
at which he wondred much, but was foon made to nnderfiand the fraud and fuace–
geme by which he was decoyed
into
that fnare. On the other fide
Gonf.alo Pifarro
knew nothing of the march of the Vice-king to
~itu,
but believed
all
che time
chat he had remained in his Camp;
but
when
in
rhe morning
the
Scouts came
near the Tents, and hearing little or no no.ife, they adventured in, and under–
fiood from the
lndi-1rn1
of all matters which had pa!fed, and a cordingly gave
in–
formation thereof to
Gonfalo
Ptfarl"o,
ho was not wanting to fend che new ro
his
Captain , who immediately raifed their
Cam ,
and marched in an orderly
pofiure
to
f2!!:.itH,
with
intention to give Bartel to the ice-king,
in"
hat place
foever chey fhould meet him. The Vice-king was not ignorant of all thefe mat–
ters,
and conGdering the
great
advantage "hich his nemies had over him, and
that there was no fecuricy buc in
his
Arms, he refolved
to
hazard all
upon
the for–
tune of a Barrel, hoping that fuch as ere true ervams and fairhfoJl ubje& ro
his
Majefty would
re~lc
o
er
co hi
fide; and fo animating
hi
eople with rhefe
eJq'eltarions, he marched with
his
Forces out of the Ciry, and both fides were fo
full of courage as
if
ch~
had been fecure of ietory; and though
Gonfalo
Pi(arro
had the greater ad\ ancage in his number , yet the Vice-king "'as
equal
co him
in
the Valour and Conduet
of his
Capcain ,
all men
of
great
fpirit
and
renO\\
n
:
rhofe
who
commanded the Infantry were
Sancho
,mche~
ti
Avila,
his
alin
'/ohn
Cabrera
and
FranciJ
Sanche~
;
h·
Captains of orfe
were A
miral
Sebaflian de
JJel:dcafar
Cepeda,
and
Pedro
de
BAjfan
and fo
both
mi marched co me
t
each
ocher :
At che firft a kirrnHh was begun
by
n
o parties of usketier detached
fr m each
Army
~
in
which the people of
Pifa7-r<>
had the ad anrage b the fuength
and go nef
f
their owder, and by the u e of their
ire~arm
, b ing the better
rks-men :
by
chis
rime both Armies \ ere come o near co ea h ocher,
thac
t
e detached
Parti "ere forced
to
retreat to
their refi
i'
e
our ; ro mak
,, hich ood on
Pifarro's
lid ,
[ohn
de
Acoffa
\
ith another
oul
i
r cal e
P.u~
de
Sottom~t;or
came
in
c
bring rh · Parry off.
hen
Gor,calo Pifarro
o_mman
e
L:arc1.1do Carv.qal
t
harge th
right
iog of
t
e n
ffi}
an h
imfc
f
de-
fi
ned r lea and brio up the Hor!( in the
nc;
c h.
r
in
bin
fr
m ic, and rather defir d im ro pla e hi
fi
l \ idun a u ron