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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
V.
CH
A
·P.
XVIII.
Pi<;<irro
refolves _to give them Battel.
Acofta
is
{e~t
to
al–
a~11z
the
fl:neni
y
in the
12ight.
Diego
Centeno
draws
out
Ins
Men, and
1)'.arro
doth
the
/if§.
G
Onfalo
Pi9arro
and his Captains being enraged with anger and difdain to
find
~
hilll: they were treating of
peace
and accommodation, that the
E~emy
had
corrupted their Meffenger, and feduced him from the
faith
and
duty
he owed to
bis Lo d and Maller.;
hereupon, blinded with madnefs and rage they
refolved
to purfue their march, ·and
forcibly
make their \\ ay through the midfi
of their
Enemies, and either to dye or conquer.
This
refolution
was
·raken
at
a-
confultation held
by
Pif arro
and
his
Officers
on
occafion of
the flight
of
Francifco
Pof{o
;
and according!
now to
put
it
in execution
they forbHhed and prepared their Arms to march
tQ\
ards
Huarina
;
·but full
they
gave out a
report, that they intended by fame other way
to
divert
Centeno
from
giving
them any interruption in the
Pafs
they defigned; and to make this
report
the
more
credible, they fent a meffage to
Francifco
de
Efpinofa
to provide them
with
Indiaiu
and provifion on their
way
by thofe parts. Howfoever the
true
defign
of
Pifarro
was difcovered
to
Centeno
by means of the
Indians,
\
ho
hy
order of
Don Chrijfoval Paul!u Inca
(of
whom we have
formerly
made
mention)
were
very
diligent
and faithfull
to acquaint
Centeno
,,.
irh all
the
motions
of his
Ene-
mies.
.
By
efe
mean.s
Centeno
being truly
informed of the way
ahd
com{e
\vhich
Pi–
f
arro
nt oded
to
take marched forth
to flop
and interrupt him
in
his pa
ff
age.; and
thereby came
fo
near each to the other that the Scours met and called to each
other, and then returned to carry the advice.
So
foon
as
Centeno
received
this ia–
~elligence
of
their
ear approa
, he
put
his people
into
a pofiure
of
defence, ani:I
dre\v them out all night into form of
Batcel,
having been formerly
well acquain–
ted with .the alarms and furprifes
~
hicb
Pififrro
had often given him in the
night.
And
yet
for his care and vigilance
Acofta
made fuch an attempt upon him in the
night with twenty Mufqueriers as put all the Camp into confufion; and the
affiight–
ment
was f9 great, that
Carate
faith, ·n he fe ond
Chapter
of his feventh Book,
that many of tbe Souldiers fled to their Tents, and the peo e of
Ya!di
vifl
left
their
Pikes and
!harnefully
ran away; and that
Acoffa
retreated
aga· wjchouc
the Jofs
of one man. Thus far
Carate.
What he farther adds concerning
che
people
of
Paidivia
is this; There was a certain Captain,
fays
he, named
Pedro
de
f'Mdjvfa,
who, being in
Chili,
received intelligence .of che great fiirs and
croubles
which
· were in
Peru,
and to be the better informed thereof, and perhaps to
intereft
him–
felf
on one fide or·
the
other, he came with many followers, and failing along the
Coaft of
Peru,
he received information of the
ill
condition of
Pifarro,
and that
the
Prefident
Gafca
was .then ·n
Saufa
preparing
to
march againft him;
whereupon
Pedro de Valdivia
refolved to
~o
himfelf
in Perfon to the Prefident, and to
lift
him–
felf with him in his Majefry s Service, and ro travel with the lefs Train he difmilt
his men and fent them ro
joyn
with
Centeno;
and rhefe
are
chofe
Y~!divians,
who,
as
Carate
faith, iliamefully ran away.
..
The day following, as
i5
reporced, both Parties marched in fight
of
each
other,
with their
men
dra~
n up in
Battalia.
The Forces
of
Centeno
(a
Lope~
de
Grrmara
re–
ports) were twelve hundred and twelve men {hong ;
Garate
faith
that they were
fomething under a thoufand;
Palentino
calls
them
above nine hundred; .but for
my
part,
I have
received
it
from very
good hands that they
~ere
twelve hun9red
~
of
which there
were two hundred and
fixty
Horfe, a hundred and
fifty
Fire-lock,
and
about eight hundred Pikes and Lances. All the
Infantry
he drew up into one
Body, flanking the Lances with the Fire-locks, though indeed the Flanks
were
very thin.
The Captains of Foot were
{ohn de
J/argM
Brother to
G111·fjlajfo
de!"
'f/ega,
~y
Lord
and Father,
Francifao
de
Rct11mofo,
Captain
Negr11l,
Captam
Pant~;tt
ana
Dugo
.
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Lopez
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