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Royal Commentaries.
The Prefident arrives at
Tumpiz
5
the Orders he
i/fued
ou
there.
Gon~alo Pi~arro
fends
John
de
Acofta
againfl
Diego Centeno.
Loren~o
de
Aldana
cames
near
to
Los Reyes;
and
Gon~alo Pi~arro
adminifler
·
an Oath
of
Fidelity
to his
Souldiers.
~HE
Prefident
having
overcome many difficulties in his Voyage,
at
lengch
' .I.-
arrived fafe in the Port
of
Tumpi~
with
all
his
Fleet)
excepting one
Ship,
which
being
a
dull
failor
upon> a
wind,
was
left behind : the name of the
Captain
was
Pedro
cab,.era,
who finding
it
impoffible to turn to windward with
his
lee–
wardly Ship,
he entred into Port
Buena 'f/entura,
.and travelled over Land with his
fmall Company,
ancl
came to the Prefident at
Tumpiz,
whom he found there
em–
ployed in giving out Orders, and making neceffary provifions for the fubfifience of
Ins
Army, which confified now ofabout five hundred men.
At
this place he re–
ceived
many
Lett~rs
from confiderable
perfons,
as well Cioizens
as
Captains and
Senldiers, to all which he returned civil and obliging anfwers, prdrnifing them re–
compeoce and remrds in the name of his Majefiy. He gave Orders to
Pedro
de
HWojefa.,
whom
he had made Captain-General, to march before with the Forces
ro
Caf{ama)'ca,
and to joyn with the
Party
which was there.
Paulo de Menefes
was
appointed
with the Fleet to coafr
all along
by the
iliore;
and he himfelf with
a
convenient Guard for the feru11ity of his perfon travelled by
way
of the
Plains, as
far as
TrHxillo,
where
he
received the news of thofe Captains and Souldiers, who
had declared for
his
Majefty,
and
ia
what plaees
and
Countries
they remained
in
expedation of his coming,
he
dif
patched Mdlengers into all parts, with direeti–
ons co pafS
by way
of
tne
D€farc untill
they came to the
Valley
of
Caj{amat:M
1
where they
were to
attend fatther Orders. After which he
travelled
by way of
the Plains, and fent Scouts before
to
fee that the way was clear before him.
Whilll: things fucceeded thus with the Prefident and his
Army,
Pif
1trro
received
news £.om
Couo
of the Vittory obtained there by
Diego Centeno,
of the dearh of
Lbztonio
de
Rohle.r,
and of the imprifonment of
Lucas
Martin
Vegaf{o,
at which he
was
very
much troubled, and feeing that fabrick ofEmpire whlch he had ereeted
for himfelf, to fall and become
daily
ruinous, for want of a good foundation, he
began
to doubt his condition, and fear that he fhould never attain co that height
of Government which he had long fanfied to himfelf. Hereupon in all hafre he
fent to
recall Captain
John de Acofta,
whom, (a&
we have
faid
before) he
had fent
with
fome Souldiers to
Truxillo
to
fopprefs
forne difiurbances
which
began to
ap.–
pear in thofe
parts.
At
this time alfo
Frar1cifco de.Carvajal
cut off the Head of
..thzronio Altamirano,
who carried the Standard in
Pift!rro's
Army, for no other rea–
fon than that he fanfied, that
Altamirano
was plea.fed with the news of
Cent;no>s
fuccefs, and that he of late carried hirnfelf coldly and unconcerned in the fervice
of
Pifarro,
which was caofe enough for
Carvajal
to
take
away
any man's ·life;
the
Standard
was
afterwards conferred on
Antonio
de Ri-hera.
So
foon
as
Acoffa
was
re..
turned,
he
ordered him with three hundred men to fall upon
Diego Ce1iteno: Mar–
tin_
de
Olmcs
was appointed to command the Horfe, and
Diego Gumjel
the Foor,.
w!th both
which
perfons I was acquainted :
Martin
de
AlmendrM
commanded the
Pikes,
Martin"de
AlaYcon
carried the Standard,
Paez de
Sotomayor
was
Lieutenanr–
General> and
?ohn de
Acofta
was Commander
in
Chief. Thefe Forces were orde–
red
to
m_arch
to
c~co
by way of the Mountains, and in a
few
days afterwards
to
dek:end mto
th~ ~lains,
and on all.
fides.
to make War
upon
Die.go Centeno;
for
above
~11
men_ livmg· he refented
his
carnage towards him, and bad mo.ft caufe
to
compl~m
of
him,
becauf~
he had been the
firfi.
and the moft importunate of any
co adv1fe and perfuade h1m co accept and take upon him the Tide and Office of
Procuracor-General
of that Kingdom; and afterwards upon a report oneJy of a
general Pardon, and repeal of
th~
late Ordinances
(
whether true or falfe
no
maa
knows)
he poorly and meanly deferred
that
caufe
whkh
be
himfelf
had owned
and