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BooK ·. V.
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Royal
Commentaries.
Camp on his
way
toward the
Prefi~enr,
paffing by
A~equtp":
where his Wife and
Children were.
When
Pifarr~
received .the. news of
t~e
fhghc
of
Vof[o,
he won–
dred
~nuch
at
it
and whifpered
it
to
Carv.:qal,
and told
h1m,
that he.did not
now
chink
it
frrange' that many of thofe who had great obligations fhould deferc him,
fiuce
Voj[o,
who was his
~ervant, an~
tied co him in dut¥ and with all the
bo~ds
of
humanity had denied
him.
Ctirvapd
anfwered, that
It
was o firange rhmg to·
him for fha he looked on
r ojfo
co be in the number of thofe faint-hearted men,
wh~
beincr afraid refolved to fecure thernfelves·
by
a
Pardon, which was the con–
di
1
o'n
ofmoft
of
~hofe
who
ha~
followed his Party; nd on the contrary, it plain–
ly appeared that fuch as were courageous and had been the leall: obliged
\.Vere
fiill
fixed
a d·confiant
to
che· Party: And that it
was
one of the miferies of this
world chat no man refpelts or honours another but for his own intereft, and chat
fo
foo~
as he find he hath
no
farther need of
his
affiftence and favour, he prefeot-
ly forgets aH
f(
rmer cie of benefits received.
.
And now che
f;
lfity and rre: chery of
Vof{o
being clear and apparent, and the
agreement between him and
Centeno
being difcovered,
Pifarro
complained
of
his
misfortune in conferring his favours on thofe who had proved moll: ungratefull;
and, heing full
of
anger and defpair, h.e refolved ( lince there was
tlO
place
left
for Treacy )
t:9
venture
all
pon the fuccefs of
a Batcel, and
either overcome or
dye.
.
The Prefideot, whom we left on· his way from
Truxillo
to
Los
Reyes,
had by
this
time received news of
all
matters which
GfJnfalo Pifarro
had alted
in
that Citv,
and ho·v his people had deferred and fled from nim. And whereas he underfiood
fr
m thofe very perfons
ho were come m co
him
that
Pifarro
was marched along
t
e
oafl: towards
Arequepa,
he fem Orders to the Captains who were quartered in
Caffem:zrca
to march
with
their Troops
in
good order to the Valley of
Saufa,
becaufe
he
·1
e1
no
d that that was a good Countrey and a good quarter for plenty of
Pr vifion
and a convenient fituacion for people to come in, and for receiving
fuch
"'ho fled
from
Piyarro.
Having given thefe Orders he marched forwards,
and as he trave led
intelli~ence
was brought him of the ruinous ·condition of
Gon–
falo
Pi
arro>
chat
of all
his
i).rmy
he had not two hundred men remaining, who
alfo xpeeted an opportunity to efcape;
~hat
Acafta
~as
in no better a
condition;
for
rhar
of
the
t
ree hundred men with which he
arched out of
Los
Reyes
above
t
o
hu dred had deferred him
ith their Captains and Officers
5
thac the
City
of
Los Reyes
had declared for the King, and that
Lorenfo
de
Aldan11
was poifeffed of
the Government, and lay in the Port with his Ships.
The PreGdent being much encouraged ' ith 'this good news, difpatched frefu
advices chereof to his Captain-General
Pedro
de
Hinojofa.,
ordering·Mm to march
with all poffible fpeed to
Saufo;
which he accordingly did, and pot to lofe time
he paffed
by
Los Reyes,
and toqk the fhorteft cut
by
way of the Mountains and
came to
Saufa,
where, meeting with his former Captains, they all rejoyced to fee
;md meet each other. And here the Prefident remained fome days, during which
time he fet up Smiths Forges for making and repairing Arms, and appointed fe–
veral Officers : and in fhort, did all that
~~ame
an able and a diligent Captain ;
and
to
forward him in this work his Officers and Mioifters were as diligent and as
aClive as he, mitting nothing which might tend
to
the dell:ructioo of their Ene–
my,
left they <hould fall again into his power whom they had denied.
Thefe good fucceifes and profperous proceedmgs were increafed
by
the
happy
ne\ s which
rojfo
brought, declaring the low and mean condition of
Pifarro's
Ar·
my, and the
1
elfare and numerous increafe of that of
Centeno\
of which
Voj[o
af–
fured the Prefident, having feen both Armies, and been an eye-witnefs of
the
fiate and condition of both.
Vof{o
delivered his Letters together with the Grant
which
Centenp
had given him of a certain Plantation, which the Prelident readily
confirm~d
; and indeed it was his
m~foi:mne
that the Gift was of no greater value,
for had
It
been one of the befi Baronies
10
Peru,
there would have been
no
fcruple
m the conveyance of
it,
in reward of the good news he brought; which was
fo
coofid~rable
a_nd
fo
well
regar.ded, that Ord_ers were thereupon Hfued co feve–
ral
Capta in~
ro
give
a
fiop
to
their
farther
Leav1es
of men, fince chat
Djego CentenfJ
had force
f~fficient
wicho?t
oth~r
affill:anc:s co.fubdue and delhoy
Pif~rro.
And
here '"~
will leave them m
t~e1r con~ultat1ons
and rejoycings at
Arequepa,
to re..
count ne cruel Battel of
HH11rsna,
which happened
in
thofe days.
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CHAP..
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