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Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
telligence of
Pifarro's
march to
Los
Rf:)n,
and his orders to meet him there he
came to the
CharcM
with
i~tention
to joyn his Forces with him at the
City
it
felf:
Pifllrro
upon the news of his approach
~
ent a great
way
to meet him, and caufed
a triumphal reception to be made for him, as due to a Captain of his
merit
who
had
defeated
fo
many
Enemies and
gained fo many
Vitt.cries.
Carvajal
left'
Alonfo
de Mendofa
for
Govemour of
the
City
of
Plate
under
Gonfalo
Pifarro,
and
brought
with him
about
a million
of
pieces
of Eight,
which he had digged from
the
Mines
of
Potocji,
and from the
Indians
who are free and not under fubjeCl:io of any Lord
fo
that
Pifllrro
was now
furnifhed with
plenty of money; and rhen
Carvajal
took
his
opportunity to prefs him farther upon the Subjeet of making himfelf King
repeating the fame arguments,
which
he had ufed
in
his Lerrer. And
here
let~
·
]eave
them, their
Officers, and
their
Friends, and particularly the
inhabirancs
of
the feveral
Cities
of chat Empire, employed in keeping all things peaceable, and
in quiet condition to the fecuricy and proted:ion as well of
Indians
as
Spaniard1,
and
·
to
rhe increafe
and propagation of
the
Holy Catholick Faith by
catechifing
and
preaching to
the
Natives;
and
to the advantage of Trade and of every
private
man's concernment, which was
fo
diminHhed and impoveriilied by the ]are Wars
and Revolutions, chat no man durfi pretend to an Efiace, for fear tbat
it
iliould be
taken away, either
by
the violent force of Tyrants, who bare-faced plandred and
pillaged all
they could
feife and
lay
their hands on; or
elfe by
thofe who
preten–
ded
co
borrow
it
for
the
fervice of his Majefiy. And now (as
the
Proverb is)
That
it
is good fijhing upon
turn of
the
Tide
,
let us pa
fs
over into
Spain,
and l
c
us fee
what
his
Imperial
Majefiy
is
there
defigning
for reducing
co
obediem~e
the Rebels
in
Peru,
and to fee at liberty the
Vice-king
Bl1t.fco Nmme:{,.
The End of the Fourth Boo'<,
Royal