771 / 1060
BooK
IV.
Royal
Commentaries.
might give an alarm that night
to
Lope
Me~do2a
in
wha~
place
~ever ~e
fou.ndhim, being
refolved
fo
to hunt and purfue
h1.m,
~hat
havmg
no tlCne giyen
himeither
for
fleep or refretbment, he !hould pen0.1
m
the chafe. The
Indian~
gave
notice of the Houfe where
Mendofa
and his Comrades were lodged, to
":hich he
went with greater a!furance and feifed on both the doors of the room,
which
was
a
great Hall belonging to the
Caciq11e
or Lord of chat
Village
5
and then to
make
them believe chat all his Captains and orces were
with
him, he would call out
to them
by
their names, faying,
ou, fuch
a
one, go thither,
and fuch a
one
keep this door, and you chis; and then he
~lled t~ aoo~her
by
his
name
to fee
fire to the Hall: with this noife
Carvapd,
calling out m thL5 manner, had charmed
ail
within the Houfe to a kind of afionitbmenr,
fo
that he entred into it with
three perfons onely, and difarmed, and bound them all, excepting
Lope de Menda–
f"'
to whom, in confideracion of his Office and Tide of Ca rain-General, they
lliewed
a
greater ref
pett ;
and then they brought them out of che Houfe, that
they might
fee the fmall number
co which
they were become Prifoner .
In
this
manner
Lope de
Mendofa
was
taken; the which Hifiorians relatie
in
general with–
out
the circumllanc
f
the feveral firategems ufed by
Carv.:4-1al.
Lope
de
Mm–
dafa
was
immediately ll:rangled and his Head cut off,
as
alfo
Nichow
de
Eredia
and
tlii·ee others; but the rell: were all pardoned, a \ ere
all
others (of
the
lnvajion
as
they called them)
to
whom he refiored their Hor
es
and Arms and whatfoever
was
taken from chem; and gave Money and Horfes to
fuch as
wanted chem,
en..
d avou ·ing by all fair means
co
gain them
co
h. Parry.
In
like manner he par–
doned
~iJ
P
ardomo
and
Alonfo
Camargo,
\
ho had joyned
ith
Mmdopt
after
they
left
Di.ego
Centeno:
the\ hich Pardon wa granted in confideration of a difcovery
they made of fifry thoufand pieces of Eight
in
ilver, which were buried by him
in
a
certain place. After
this
Vi6tory, no other aCl:ion remaining
to
be
perfor–
med, he marched int the
CharctU
with intention
to
recide fome days
in
the
City
of
Pl.Ate,
and co amafS' hat
ilver he could from the
Mines
of
Potoji,
v
hich
were
difcovered that year. And then he confifcated
all
the
Indians,
and Plantations
of thofe
ho were dead, and of rhofe who
fiood
out and \ ere fled, unto the ufe
of
Gon2ato
P1farro,
in recompenfe for the great charge and expence he had been at
for maintenance of the War. When he
as come near to the
Cicy
of
Plate,
all che
Inhabicants thereof came forth to meet him, in hopes with that complemenc
co
appeafe and (often h· angry and fierce humour : mongfi the rell: came
Alonfo Ra..
mire;:.
with
his
white Rod
in
his hand, having been made chiefGovernour of that
Town
by
Diego
Centeno.
Carva_;al
at
fight
here
f
gr
angry, and fc ·d to him,
Mr.
Ramire~,
Take off the Crofs from toe top of that' hire
caff,
and then lhar–
pen
ic at the point, and dart it
ac a
og, and
I
rocefi that if you do not hit
him
in
the right eye
l
will
hang you for ic
~
meaning the1 by
to
d dare h· folly
and
indifcretion in coming t meet him
with
chat ftgnal of Authority
in
his
hand
which he had receivea from a P rty which !l:ood in defiance of him, and
whof~
Po er he would not own. Hereupon
R.amire3:.
threw a
ay
his Staff,
not reflec..
ting
in
due
time
on the indifcretion
and
imprudence of
chis Aet.
CH AP.
XXXIX.
Carvaj I
fends
the Head
of
Lope de M
ndo~a
to
Ar qu '
pa,
and
what was
the
J
aying of
a Woman
thereupon.
Of
a
Mutiny
which was
nlade
againft
Carvaj
I,
and bow
the
Authours thereof were punijbed.
1
T
HE
next
day after
Ca-roajal
~ntred
into the
City
of
Pl1tte,
he
fent the
Head
of
Lop
e de M-en_dofa
to
t~e
C1cy
of
Arequepa
by
Dio1!J.fio de
Bobdilta,
who
wa
afterwards
~
a.deSeq~ant-Ma1or
to
Gonfalo
Pifarro,
and
with
whom
I
wa
acquain–
ted ; and
h
is mfiruchons were to
fet
it
up upon
the
common Gallows
of chat
Ci- ·
ty,
that
the Inhabitants might take
notice
and
example
thereby;
fqr in that
Town
·
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