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R.<!Jal
Commentaries.
BooK
V.
CH AP.
IV.
The Amba/fadours arr
iv~
at
Fanama,
and hoth they and
the
Peop.leof that
~zty
revolt front
Gon~alo Pi~arro,
and
delz1:1e~
up
their Fleet into the power
of
the
Prefi–
dent.
Paniagua
comes to
Los R
yes.
S
0 foon
a~
the
Af!1baffa~ours
arrived .at
Panama, Lorenfo de Aldana
went
to
. cake up
hlS
Lod~ngs
w.1ch
Pedro de HinOJofa:
and having
firfi
burnt the
Com–
m1ffion _and Infiruchons
~1ch
he brought
fro~
Gonfalo Pifar:<J,
relatif!g to
mat–
ters which he had to
all:
m
Panama
and
Spam;
he made his Addreffes to
the
~refident
, J?iving him in
f~w
words
co
underfiand his intentions: and in
a !horc
ume becommg better
acquamted ,
Aldana, Berna» Mexia
and
Pedro
de
Hinojoftt
en–
gaged to empl y themfelves in the ervice of the Prefident
1
onely they preten–
ded to make fome difficulties for the firfi three days, unrill they had well dige–
fied
!
eir
i:iat~er: ~md
then finding themfelves all of an opinion, they began to
ubl1lh rherr mtenuons
~
and on the fourth day they and all the Captains
went
to
the Prefident and profe{fed their allegiance
to
his Majefi:y: and
in
token there–
of
delivered up the whole Fleet into his poffeffi6n and command, together
with
the Arms,
Ammunition and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, engaging upon
ath to doe homage to
him,
and co ferve and obey him in whatfoever he fhould
command. And in the mean time thefe
e[olurions were kept as a
Secret unrill
it
was
known how
Gonfalo Pif11.rro
received
Paniagua
and the meillige which
he
·
brought
him.
The
prin
ipal motives which incited thefe perfons to revolt from
Pifarro
to the ervice of
his Ma
jelly were, impartially [peaking, the fenfe
of
true allegiance and duty
which
they
m
ed to his Majell:y.
In
the next place,
it
was
fecretly agreed, that
fo
foon as chefe Commotion were fuppreffed and
the
ountre)C in eace and quietnefs , that the Army fhould receive their
full
arrears
of
ay : the which wa afcen:vard complied with in
a
more ample manner than
they chemfelves had propofed, of hich \.Ve
fhall
f
peak in ics
due place.
But no–
thing more prevailed and facilitated chi matcer than the Repeal of the late
Or–
dinances and new
Laws,
and the general Pardon for what was already pall:
for
hen they
faw
themfelves fecured
in
their pofietlions and command_ over rhe
Jndians
;
and abfi lved of the murther , fpoils and robberies they had commit–
ted in rhe late
Civil Wars·
they refolved
to
clofe with this opportunity
to
fave
themfelv
, though thereby they facrificed and furrendred him
to
d llrnetion
who
had
promoted them
ro
the
itle of
aptains and Arnbaffadours of
that
Empire,
rather
in
expeCl:ation of future fervices from them , than in reward of former
merit
; for though they
ere Perfons of
ualiry,
yet none of them had been
C
nquerours, unlefS
Alonfo Palamino.
Thi
cret
3
concealed
for fome
few
days,
which rhe Prefid
nt
ell:eern
d,
as no lofs of time, confidering hi great
fuc–
cefs info fhort a time. In fine, at a general Rendezvous the feveral Colours
were
furrendred up into the hands of the Prefident, and the Captain publickly decla–
red
for
the Prefidenr ;
v
ho accepted the furrender in the name of his Majefiy
and
refl:ored every man to his Office by Commiffion from the Ernperaur:
as
is confir–
med by
Gomara,
Chapter
17
9.
in
chefe words:
By the prudent and dexterous negotiations of
G
a[ca,
and by the promifes
~f
re–
ward which he made to
Hinojofa,
for
there could be no force or compulfion
m
the
cafe, a
voluntary
furrender was made of the whole Fleet unto
the I
refident:
and
here the firfr fiep \ as made to the ruine of
Gonf_alo
Pifarro. Gafca
accepted of
the
leet,
and
confirmed
Hin0Jofa
in his OffiLe of Aamiral,. and all. the Captains
i~ ~he
commands of their refpe
ive hips, thereby converrma Traitor
to
a condmon
of loyal and faithfull
ubjeCl: . .The
~e~denc
ha
i~g
gain
d the
Fleet, began
co conceive great hopes of tbefe
h1
negouauons ; and
mdee~
he. had
reafc:>n
fo
to
believe
for without
the
leec he could never have fucceeded
m his nterpnfe ;
by
ea it had been impoffible to have found
fhippi~g
to
trJnfport
hi~
to
Pem :
and
to go
by
Land
(as
it
was once
defigned ) the
1ourney had
been difficult
and
ar-
,
tended