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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
V.
bef~re
it
was
begun '
on
Pifarro's
fide : which when
Hernando
Bitchic
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ved , he returned back
to
his former Squadron , crying out
Victory
as
l~udcei
any.
One of the Horfemen .on
Centeno'~ ficl~,
h<?rn at
Hen·era
de
Alcantara)
(\vbo~
name I have forgotten, ruonmg a ay, m his Flight and full carriere accidentaU
happened
to pafs
by
Franci/C-0 de
Ca
aj_al
fitting on his
f
mall
Nag,
~
we have
bl
fore mentioned,
a~d
nor kn?
~ ing ~o
he
wa;;,
ga:re hi!D
~
firoak with a
broad
Sword over the Vizard of
hIS
Head-piece, which bemg given wich a firnng Arm
and
a
good \i'\litr '·
the
S\"\'Ord
entred .deep
with~
the Iron, bot
yet
·enr
not
f~
far as to wound
him :
at which thofe \ ho
faw
It
wondered very much .. ·
and
af.
ter the Bartel was ended, and all things
quiet,
Carvajal
fhewed the HeaJpiece
t~
Gonfalo Pi{arro,
and
fai<l
to him ,
what
do
you
think ,
ould have become of
me ,
had
not been guarded with this defence
?
One
third part of
Diego Ccnte
no'~
Foot
were
all £lain, as
is
!Dentioned
be~ore;
another third
part
of them, whe.r
V1ltory
was founded on
their
fide, were hcenfed to
plunder
Pif arro's
Camp
and
accordingly they facked a great part of
it ;
but this
proved
t'heir ruine and ' as
a
great occafion of the lofs of the
day.
The remainder of the
Infantry, '
hich were
not above
fixty
in
all_,
were left
at pufh of
Pike with
Pifarro's
Souldiers
fecon.
ded "ith a Party
of
(ohn
de
Acoft1ls.
A certain Souldier of
Centeno's
fid~
called
---Guadramiro1
(
whom I knew ) a Man tali of Stature, and well lh:tPed of
a peaceable difpofition and more a Courtier than a Souldier, g: e
Acofta
a
Pufu
with his
Pike
in the
Throat ;·
and the head ofthe Pike remaining within the fleili
he gave him. with
the
Staff end fuch a blow over the Shoulders, that
Acofta
wa~
therewith knockecf down, with his Heels up in
the
Air: at the fame time a
Ne–
ger
chanced
to
come
in,
whom
I
knew,
called -
Guada/Hpe,
and gave him a
cue
. over borh
t
e Calves of his Leggs; but the
Neger
being a ·weak
little
felJow., and
the Sword as dull and as black with rufi as the Mafter, herather
bruifed
the Befit
,· than cut
it.
·
At length
Pifarro's
men coming to handy-blows
with
thofe of
C:enten/s,
they
killed them almoft all : but
{ohn
de Acofta
faved both
Guadramiros
snd
G11aJ11!11pe
:from being killed: for he interpofed himfelf
.between
hem and thofe who would
have killed them, and cryed out a-loud, chat they deferved QQ.arter and alfo Ho–
nour and Reward : What I have faid here I knew to be true; IJr afterwards I
rook acquaintance with
Guadalupe,
when >he was a Mufquecier in one of the Com- .
panies
belonging to
Gon2alo
Pff arro,
quartered at
Cozco,
here .he was gallant
in
his Habit , and dre!fed up
in
Feathers
as
gay as a
Peacock._,
becaufe every ne re·
fpeeted him for his
courage
and bravery. And here I mull: beg the
Read~r>s
par·
don for having defcended thus far to trivial parciculars, having onely an !ntention
hereby co confirm the truth of
my
Narrative by the.Teftimony of having been
an
Eye-witnefs to the foregoing Tranfaetions.
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XXI.
The
nu11iher
of
thofe who
were /JUed and wounded on
hoth
fides
,
with other particular Succe/fes :
a5
-alfo what
Wd-5
aCied
by
Carvajal
~fter
the
Batte/.
·
T
HE
efcape of
Guadramiro1
was
aft.erthe Battel en9ed ,
~nd
after .tbe
Vi6to–
ry plainly appeared for
Gonfal
o Ptfarro;
for on
hIS
fide
were
flam about a
hundred
men
of
which
feventy odd were Horfemen, and about fifteen
Foot,
befides thofe
~hich
were wounded, amoogfi which were Captain
Cepeda,
[ohn
Je
Acofta,
and Captain
DiegoGuillen•
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On
Di~go
Ce?'teno>s
fide above three
hundre~
and
fifty
were killed, and .amongft
them
chert Ma1or c;;eneral, and all the C_apcams of
Foot \ ith their Enfigns, being the Flower of their
Army;
and the
choICe~
Men
amo~gfi
them; befides which
Pedro
de
Lo1
Rios,
Captain of Horfe, and
Diego
1~
vare~
w
ho carried-the Standard, dyed on the place. There
ere, belidI:u;l
0
d
that
~ere
fl.am,
three hundred and
fifty
wounded , of which above
an
~d
.
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