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taint;as a
~an
can have that wa not an eye-wi e . ; for fix days after this
m~t
ter happene,
~
I
e to the City with my Un 1e
'f
ohn
de
VargM
a with Gaptam
Rodrigo
de
Pantoja
and with
about
nine
Spaniards
~ore,
who came fr?m a
lanta–
tion
about
tb1
ty LeJgues difrant from
Co~co,
as d19 alfo
~11
!DY
family,
wJ10
fl~d
from
Pifarro's
party,
an came for
efuge
tO
that Cuy,
•1th
1
tent
to
be lifted
hi
Majefty's ferv1ce
:
but I
and my brother
folio~
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them, and the next d Y
af–
ter I came thither I was brought co
kifs
Diego
enteno'
hands; and
remember
his left-ha d was b und up. in a
pie~e
of olack
Taffe~,.
and rho1
.~b
he was
wounded in
the
Thigh,
y
che feemed not
v~1
y
lame with it; for I
oferved_,
he
was !l:anding upon
is Legs: he
v~·as
lodged
1
the
~oufe
of
F ·.rnando Bachscao,
which now belongs
t
Don Lewts Palomino :
1
h1ch happe
ed
fome few days
after the Feafi:
f
the moft Holy acram
nt,
in the year
1
547•
And we have
fi–
mfhed the Hifiory hereof abo
t
the fame month,
in
the. year
160).
and do con–
firm che trut
thereof,
whi h I
fa
:vith
my
owA eyes.
All the Fig
1t \:
asfhendly, and rat er in word
c_han
aCtions, for had
they
been
iJl
earneft, as.Hillorians
fay,
fourty eight men
fo
ill armed as thefe were, whofe
chief Arms were onely Daggers fafined
t_
the end of Saves, would have had a
difficult
cask, co have engaged againft three hundred
en all well armed and
di(c plined, as thofe were under the command o
Antonio
de
Robles.
· Captain
Antonio de Robles,
being thus defeated and
abandon~d
by
hi
Sou
diers,
fled for
a etnary into the Convent of Saint
Francis,
which
in
thofe days was on
thi
.Eafi
fide of the City , and not where
it
now is : from whence
Diego
Centeno
ieoc th n x day to bring
de..
Robles
to him, not with defign to
kill
him, for he
wa!> a per o
fa gentle temper,
and
not bloudy, but to perfuade him to ferve his
M jefiy. But
Antonio
de
Robles
-(as
Carate
reports of him) was a Youth, and of
no great under anding, and behaved
himf~lf
as
if
he had been
frill
Commander
in
Chief
f
th
Cit ,_
uttering
many
infolent
Sayings
in favouF of
Pifarro's
Party, and
r~6eCting
·i(h
f<
me difgra e ull ·terms on the fervice of his Majefiy : at which
Diego <;enteno
i
g ready Qffended, fent
_to
tcrk;~
off his
Head ;
and though he
wa
fudicien
yprov
ed
tQ
have hanged him, (as
ic:
was generally believed he
wgu1d) yet ,
b.eia Gentl
man,
he was fentenced to a more honourable deadi.
Th
e
w
ho wete
·ell
affeeted to
Pifarro'
Party, conveyed themfelves away iri
the nig r, and
~:ich
greac expedition travt:lled
to
Rimac,
where they brought the
{irft
news to
Pi£arro
o the lofs of
Antonio
de
Robles
and
his men at
Co:;..co:
which
though
ill ne\ · , and deeply r fenced by
Pi
p1rro,
yet he covered and diffembled
his trouble for
.ia
time, and gave out his· Orders and Commands in fuch manner
as we fhall declar hereafcer: but
fo
foon as the news of the Vicrory which
Diego
Centeno
had gained
ad
fpr~ad
it
felf
io the Countries, aU rhofe ·people who wert;
abfconded, and had hid
th~mfelves
in parts about forty or fifty leagaes round, re..
turned to
Couo
in great
nu
hers,
amongft
which were divers perfons
Qf
quality,
an · Souldiers of honour and fame, who, joyning wjth thofe in
Couo,
formed a
Bady of five hu dred men,
ho with commpn confent free)y chafe
Dkgo
Centeno
to be their C tnrnander in Chief; who accordingly gave ·out Commiffions both
for Horfe and .Foot
to
feveral Captains, ·whofe names we {hall
menrion~when
we
come to relate the Battel of
Huarina.
- So
foon a General
Centeno
had reformed his Forces, he
re.~Qrned
tp.
Coll.aQwith
d
fign
to fall
l!t,1
n.
Alonfo de Mendofa
(who was
appoint~d.Gpver-00ur
o.f the Ci–
ty of
Plate
by
Gonfalo Pi91Jrro)
and
tO
reduce hi_m
w
obecH~nce
of his Majefiy ei-
ther by.fair or
fi
ul mean .
·
·
·
Th~
ne s of
Centeno,s
fuccefs
a~
Couo
reached
to
the City of
Arequepa
ma very
iliorc
tt
e, where a certam Captam refided, called
LuctU Martin Pegaj[o
an inhabi–
tant of that City, and fent thither by
Gonfalo
Pifarro
after the Battel of
~itu
for
Governour
of the place. This Captain
naving
not as yet received intelligence of
wha
had
paffed at
Couo,
refolved
to
bring an hundred and
thirty
men with him
t
Pifarro
to ferve
him
in
his Camp; but being on his march fome few leagues
fr?m the
City,
his own men who went unwillingly upon that fervice defired
him
t
turn
re
r e
King's
Party, but
he iliewiog
an averfion thereunto
they
feifed
u
n him, and kept him prifoner, that he fhould not
fly
from them nor leave
the
11.
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So foon as they were :eturned
~o Ar~quep:i t~ey
received news of all that
Diego
Centeno
had ?one, and
be1~g a~l
Fnends
and
mt1mately acquainted, they perfuaded
LucM Martin
to change his mmd and Party, and to ferve his Majefiy, and to doe
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