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Royal Commenttf-ries.
wounded with the Tallow., mixed with the dung of
Catt~l
( o which there
is
grear fiore
in
tl
at
Councrey; which _having dried and beaten
co a
powde:, they
heated
it
~
ith
the
greafe, and made
1t
as
hot.
as they could _weU
e~dure
1t,
and
firfr
having pr
bed
the
depth
of the wounds with Come Bodkins
which
the
Spa–
niard1
carried\
ith
chem,
d~ey
'Poured
it
int
themr? and
th~s
ferved
for a
Balf~me
which not onely fienched Bloud but healed the
~ores,
without ocher remedies ;
which was rec unred afterwards
as
a mercy of God, and a miracle of Divine Pro–
vide·nce to thqt Party which
in
their extremity had found
fo
fovereign
a
cure: •
prefeotly after mid-night they began again
to
travel, .dividing
into
feveral parties, '
that
the Enemy n1ight nor be induced
to
purfue them, on the report
of
many got-
ten into
a
Body.
·
About fifteen days afcerwards
Gonfalo
Silveflre
met with the
Spaniard
who was
wounded,
with
his
Indian
Woman, and found him well and found,
in
a Village
of
Indians,
where were about fifteen or twen y Houfes ;
for
ihe had carried him
thith
amongfi her qwn Friends and Relations, where they cured
him,
and en–
tertained him with what provifions their Countrey afforded. Thefe paffages
I
received particular information of
frorv
good hands, which happened in that de·
fart Countrey : there were many other accidents of greater importance than thefe,
of
which not having had particular information
I
forbear
to
write them; and
leave them
to
the conremplacion of the Reader,
who
in
his
thoughts
may
imagine
the miferies which followed after a cruel Battel, in
a
Countrey. difinbabiced, and
in
a
Defart \vithout relie£
I
iliall
now return to
a
defcription
of
the place where
this Bartel was fought, and
fay
fomething of what the three Authours write con–
cerning the exploits which were performed by
Garfilaj[o
de
la
Vega
my
Lord
and
Father.
.
I
C .HAP.
XXIIJ..
The
Authour confir11is
the truth of
what
he
hath
[aid; and
to
fatisfie
thofe who do
not
believe
hi111,
he boafls
of
what
Hifiorians
write
concerning
his
Father.
F
R..ancifco
Lope::.. de Gomara,
Chap.
1
8
z.
relating the Battel of
Euarina,
and
giving
an account of the numbers of rhofe who were killed and wounded, faith,
·
that
Pifarro
had been in great danger had not
Garplajfo
de
la
Yega
lent him his
Horfe,
&c.
.Auguftine de Carate,
Book the levemh, Chapter the third, difcourfing of this
Battel, faith that the Horfe feeing the rout which was' given to the Foot, engaged
the Enemy's Horfe, and in th:it charge
Gonp:do
Pi;arro
had his Horfe killed under
him, without other hurt to himfelf,
&c. Diego
Fernande~
alfo, Book the fecond
Chapter the feveoth and ninth, fpeak· g of tills Batte}, faith, as follows;
'
Pedro
de
/01
R!oJ
and
Antonio de Vlloa
cnarged the _Horfe on the other Wing,
and
engaged not with the Foot,
a~
was ordered; which they performed with fuch
fuccefs that they difmoumed the whole party of
Pjfarro,
fcarce ten men remaining
i~
the Saddle ; and therewith being as it were affured of Vietory, they began to
nfle their Enemies, make them Prifoners, and take away their Arms.
In
chis
e~counter
Pip:
irrohimfelf was difmounted, which when
Gar2ilajfo
obferved, be
alighted
~rom
h.isHorfe,
(for
he.
was
one of thofe who continued
in
the
Saddle)
and lent
1t
~o
hun, and helped him ro get up.
Licenfiado Cepeda
was one of rhofe
who had yielded and taken quarter; but
Hernando Bachicao,
giving the
day
for
loft paifed over to
Centeno's
party.
Though all thefe Authours agree in thefe particulars concerning my Father,
yet
I am well affured of the truth of what I have wrote· and that the Horfe which
Pifarro
receiyed from
my
Fat~1er ~vas
not in the heat
~f
the
Fight,
but afterwards;
but I do not wonder that H1fionans fhould be
fo
informed for I remember chat
fome School-fellows of mine, who were born of
Indlan
Women, told me the
fame;