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IV.
Royal
Commentaries.
that
defiring to fpeak with
fome one or orher
whom
he
kn~,
and
feeing
nant
come
out or anfwer him, he
f
et
Sail and
left
the
Port.
Carva;41
'Yas further ad–
v1fed
that
Lope de
Mend.ofa
with
feven or eight
others were
fled
up
into
the
Cmm–
crey
'after
horn he feoc a Captain "ith
twenty
Musketiers,
who
purfued
them
alm~fr
an
hundred leagues, uncill they drove
chem
within
the
Government
and
Countrey
which was
conquered by.
C aptain
RojM;
from whence chey
return~
again to render an account
to
Carva1"1
of
a_U
that:
had happened. And afcer
this
defeat of
Diego Centeno
and that none of his meo appeared, he rhea marched
co
1he City of
Plate,
to
~olleet
fuch Moneys as belonged to
Gonya/a
Pifarro,
and to
thofe who had denied a
c
na-ibution.
ut
to
return
to
Lope
de
Mmdo;_a,
h~
efca..
~d
into
che Government of
D iego
de
&jtU,
ho was
one
of thofe
CaptalllS
to
whom
Yaca de
Caftro,
lace
overnour
f
Per11,
had given a Commiffion ro make
new
Conquefis, after he had
cornpofed
and pacified the
many difturbances
and
1;ommotions in
Peru
by
the death of
Don Diego
de
Almagro,
Junior. And now
in
the following
Chapter we
{hall iliew
what enfued hereupon.
CH AP. XXXVII.
The fucce/fes
of
Lope de M
ndo~a.
Of
the 111anner
how the
Indians
infufe poifon into
their Arrows
;
and how
Lope
de
M
ndo~a
returned to
P ru.
T
HE defign of
Lope de Mendo;a
and
his
Companions
was onely
to
conceal
themfelves within rhofe
higo
and rugged Mountain (which are fituated
to–
wards
the
Eafiem
part
of
Peru )
untill fuch time as the
loud voice of
the
King
fbould call them from thence; and little imagining to meet
Spaniards
in
that Coun–
trey, they unexpettedly fell into the company of
Grav iel
Bermude~,
who was one
of
tbofe who followed
Diego
de RojJU,
who with
his
fellm'\
1
Souldiers
had perfor–
med
great
explo"
agaiofi
die
Indians
in
that Conquefi, and ha ing fufiained hun–
ger,
tedious marches
and many
other hardlhips, had proceeded in their difcover}r
, as far as co the River of
Plate,
and to the
Fortre~
which
Sebaftian Gaboto
had built
in that Countrey: but
Diego
de
RoJtu,
'
ho
\Yas
their chief Commander,
being
dead,
diff<mfions arifiog
amongfl:
chem who {h uld be the erfon to govern that
little bur viltorious Army, the dif< ord was
fc
highly carried on
by
the ambition
of
Pretenders that they killed each other, and divided
chemic
1 e
into
divers
Par–
ties1
as
if
th
y
had no Enemy, and could not better employ their Arms
than
agaiofi
themfe1ves.
The death of
Diego
de
RojM
was caufed
by
a poifoned Arrow, which the
Jndi–
an.r
empoifon' ith a fore ofHerb which begins to operate within three days after
the
wDund
is
gi en, and performs its effeCl: in feven days afterwards; in which
time the Patient raves, eats and gaaws his own flefh, and beats his brain againft
the
Wall and
fo
dies. The
Spanim-ds
were defirous to know a Remedy or Antidote
againfi this
Poif
on,
and perfuaded the
Jndians
both
by
proQ:lifes and threats
co
give them
the
Receipt
of
it,
but could not prevail, untill fuch time as they woun–
ded
one
of thofe whom
they
had taken in the Thigh with this fore
of
poifoned
Arrow,
and then giving
him
liberty to go abroad and feek his remedy, they ob–
ferved that he .gathered two forts
of
Herbs , the which he fiamped and pounded
feve:ally~
and then drank the juice of one of them, and the other he injetted
in–
to
his W ouad ; but firft he opened the Wound with a
Knife,
and drew out the
Bar
of the
A ow,
which
are
very
fine
aod thin,
and
are left within the fle{h
after the Shaft is taken out:; for unlefs
roe
wound
be
firll:
cleared
thereof, the
~rb
can ?ave no
effe~ ~ ~nd
in
this m.anner the
Indian
cured himfelf. The
Spa-
11111rds
havmg made
thlS
difcovery
cured themfelves.
by
application of the fame
Antidote,
though fome
of
them died, who
bad
not
the
art to clear the Wound
of the Barb whlch remained therein.
In
the ffiands of
Barlovento,
and in all the
Countrey of
Btafil,
in
S11nt~
M8na,
and
in
the New Kingdom., and
in
other
Coun-
rrie ,
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