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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
V.
de
ith
a dP\ik>le
port~t>n
ready
againfr
their
return
thac
th
~
. .
fhtjr
fdends, when they
had fubdued them, and
cake~
them
i!
. _
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~ /n!1ia1tts~
wf\t;>
fe~~d
tbat
tb~
vanity and
co~fident
boafiings
rtend
fQtJJ.e
ill~
<w(\J
~
theJ
~ll:ers,
;tnd
a$ked them wnere they
fbould lrfve
th~
Herds
f
Cartel, · to fecure them
againfi
their Enemies;
who
though
few
in
°
e
her:»
m
y~jiji~ (h~y,
be
your
Mailers; and this they Utteredwith that
etrnell~~~
~
coRJi
~e,
tha
maoy
of
d1e
SMniards
grew
f~
angr¥
and
outrageous ro hear
~
, chat
they
w.ere
ready
tQ
beat chem , and
with
this paffion they
emred
in
to
~plac~.
4nd polls
appoij)ted
chem
in
their refpettive
Squadrons.
One
of
thef~
Wa$
Martin
de
Arbiet(J,
who
dif~ourfiog
with
a
Friend of his
upon
what
the
I~tii""
h~
f9
qnluckily
prefaged ;
Bt
the
fame time came one
Gon;alo Silve/fre
who
re
/
te9
tlJe
f'lrn~
as
thr=
fn4ians
ha4 prognofiicated: And
they had
fcarc~ advanc~;
~ gac~s
forward
before
one
[u/i.o
de
Hoj~d11,
who was an
Inhabitant
of
co~o
and
·
one
pf
tb~
firll:
ConqQ~rours
of
Peru,.
t:ame
roaring,
and
f
wearing
fa
id
th~t
he
could
fca~e
forbear killing his
Jndian.r,
for
faying
that
we
fbould
be
defeat~d
this
cf
ay.
How chefe doggs
fhould
~orne
to
fay
thefe
things,
I know
not,
unlefS they
being Witches,
conv
fe with the Devil.
At
the fame infiaot.came another Inha-
.
bitFJ.ptof
Cg~o,
called
C~.rr""' w~o
faid
the
fame things; and,another alfo
came
t(J r~pmc Eh~ film~ Ne~~'
fo
t9at
lt
call!e
by
fix or
feven hands;
who [corning
to
give
€r~d~nce ~o th~
vain
prefages of
che1r
In~ans,
pofled themfelves
in
that Squa..
dron of 1-lorfe
which flanked
the
Infantry
in
the lefc Wing.
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XIX.
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The Battel:of
Hu~rina.
The S'trategem which
the
Lieute-
11,ant General
Carvajal
ufed.
The particular Exploits
of
Gon~alo Pi~arro
and of other
Cavaliers
of
renown
and
gof!d fanze.
.. ,
,
B
0 T
f{
Squadr9ns being
.drawn up
in
the Field fiooef facing each
other
for
a
loo_g
tiqi~
without moving, and being
in
this
'pofiure,
Gonfalo Pifarro
fent
his
Chaplain, called
Fath~r
Herrera,
tQ
Diego Centeno,
requiring him to peimic him a
free
paffage
ro qepart ,
and
not.
force
him
to make
his way by
Batte];
and
in cafe
he
would not
grant his requefr ,
he
did
then
prorefl:. againfi
him
for all
the loffes ,
dam~ges- ~aq
bloud which
!hould enfue thereupon.
The Chaplain
came
'Yith
his
<;n1ci~~
before
him,
but
the Guards
frapped
him,
upon fufpicion
chat he came as
a SPY
d,if(:pver their·
lilllmbers
and
order.
The
Bi01op of
Cozco
and
Diego
Ce~
re.nowho
w~re
roge'ther
at
the fame time, fent for
the
Chaplain, and
having heard
what lie had to
fay,
he was ordered co be brought into the Biiliop's Tent.
The Jrbr\:es
of
Die.goCenteno
,
hav.ing
information of
the
Mefiage
which
the
P*fi.
htou~ht>. ~nd
being
confident
and a£fured
of
Vittory, were refolved
co
gain tfue
honour of
being
the f:irfr
to
make
tne
on-fer:
and accordingly moving tcr
wards ·
th~ Eia~my
the9
had
fcarce adva..nced a hundred paces
before
they made
a
fiand.
fh:t11oifco
de
<;_arv4jftl
ordered his men
t0
keep
their
ground, b€ing de/i–
roos
to
have
the
Ene(lly come up
to
them, and
to-encourage
and provoke them
thereumo,.
he_feot
fQlm dt:
.(1coj}a
with
nhirtYi
Mufquetiers to
begin
a skinnHb,
and
to
m~~
Cl:!
feeming retr<rat ,. to
draw
t:he
enemY. to
follow
nhem.
The
other
fide
dr~w
Ol>J
a~ eq~l
Otlimber
to
engage with them; but
oo
hurt was
done,
for
they
fitred
a:.~
f
qch
~
dUlaocer that
t?be Bullets could not reach home.
.
.
Hriflior:ianp
writ~;
and
P'lrticularly
A11gujfi.?Je Carate,
in the
thrrd
~bapter
of hJS
fecond book,
hath thefe
words;
Fttancifco
de
Carvajal,
faith he, feemg
d~e
Camp
of
Diego
CtJ11tenp
co ma;ke a halt, 6rdered his own Souldiers to
advance teo
paces
forwa.
dp;
wh·ch
wbeti
C.entenls
Souldiers. Qhferved,
they
cryed
ou~,
that cbe
Ene:
mu..
o.!l.ine...J
Loo@w:· o er.
t~m
; and
thereupon-began
to march m a
full
bohdy
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