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Gon~alo. Pi~arro
i/fues oitt
Orders
to
hu~y th~
Dead.
.
He
difpatches Officers
into
divers parts.
The
/bght
of
Diego
• Centeno;
and
what happened
to the conquered Party.
.
tSO
foon as
Gonptl.oPiy_arro
return~d
ro his Tent, he found
my
Father there, and
defired him co lend him his Horfe,
Salinil!M,
untill his own were cured of the
fljght
wound which
Gony_alo Silveftre
had given him;
which
being granted,
he
mounted thereon, and taking a
turn
round the
Fiela,
he gave order
to
bury
the dead and to take care of Cuch as were wounded ; _which he found for the
mofi: pa(c !hipped of their Clothes by the
Indians,
who, without regard to Friend
or Foe, made all prize which came
wi~hip
their power : the
C0£!1IDO~ ~ouldiers
were
all
buried together promifcuouf!y
m
ten or twelve great
Ptts,
which were
made
for
that purpofe ; but the Bodies of Noblemen and Perfons of QQ.ality
were carried to the
Vi
lla~e of
Huarina
(which was near thereunto, and for
which
reafon this Fight was
calJ.edthe Bartel
~
Huarina)
and there they interred them
in
a
fmall
Church built
by the
Indians
themfelves, in which they were taught
rhe
Articles of the Chrifiian Faith, when things were in peace, and when the time
was proper for
i~
:
and there thofe Bodies re!l:ed
for
the fpace of four years,
un..
till
the troubles being at an end, and the Empire flourHhing.
in
peace, thofe Bo–
die were taken up and carried to the 'great Church of a
City
which the
Span;ards
had lately founded and called
i
the City of
Peace,
where they were re-buried with
much Solemnity, Maffes and Sacrifices, which continued for many days. The
Gentlemen of
Peru
did generally contribute to the expence hereof, in regard they–
were
all
related to
the
dead, either by Kindred or by Friendfhip.
Gonfalo
P~f_~rro
having buried the dead, and taken care of the wounded, difpatched away Officers·
into divers parts to provide neceffaries which were wanting.
Dionyfio
de
Bovadilla
was fent to the City of
Pl~te,
to bring what Silver he could get for payment of the
Souldiers.
Diego
de Carvaja1,
furnamed the Gallant, was difpatched to the
City
of
Arequepa
on the
fame
errand, and Captain
{ohn de la
Torre
was fent
co
Co~co;
all
three were attended with thirty Mufquetiers apiece, ' ho had commiffion to
prefs what men they met, and bring them to the place where
Pifarrq
lay
en..
camped.
But now to return to
D iego Centeno
(of whom we have
for
fome time
been
filent) He was fick, as Authours write of him, having been fix
·mes let bloud
too
in
the ·difiemper of a Pleurifie ; and therefore was not actually prefenc in the
Fight, but
was
carried about in
a
Chair, from whence feeing the llaughter of
his
men, and
the
lofs of the day, he lefr
his
feat and mounted on his Horfe,
which
was led near to him
:
and
being overcome with the fear of death and rhe de.fire of
life
which is natural to all men, he fled away, not flaying for the BHhop or any
other ; but onely with the company of one Priefi called Father
Bi.fcayner,
he took
his
way over the Defarts and Mountains, leaving the high way, the better to
elude the devices and firategems of
Carvajal,
and came at length to the City
0
£
Loi
Reyes;
fo that neither
Carvajal
nor any of his own fide knew what was be–
come
of
him,
that he
fe~med
to be vanHhed like an Apparition, or carried away
by fome firange Enchantment. And though he was informed chat the Prelident
G afaa
was in
·che
Valley
of
Sau[a,
which was
in
his way, yet he thought not
fir
co go thither, but wrote a Letter to him by the Father
Bifcayner,
to
excufe his
non-attendance, being forced
to
gb
firfi
to the City of
Lo1
Reyes
to provide
him–
felf with
Cuch
neceffaries
as
were requifite for his own perfon,, and agreeable to
,the quality of that Office and Dignity in which he had ferved. And here we will
leave him at
L_os Reyes
to fPeak of
Francifco
de
Carvajal,
who was wandring about
the Countrey
m
fearch,
as
Authour fay, of
Don
Fray
{ohn Solano
Bifhop of
Co~co
~gainfl:
whom he
w .
highly incenfed, faying, _
th~t
whereas he
o~ght
to
have
bee~
m
the Church,
praymg
unto God for the peace ofChrifl:ians he was tatned Soal–
dier,
and
was
become
a chief
Officer in
the
Army
of
Diego Centeno:
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