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v. ·
Royal
Commentarier.
Pedro de la Gafca,
Prefident of his Imperial Majefiy, havi!tg
fummoned
all
the
Caprains and
S~uldiers
who were in
~ittt, Caj[ilmttrc~,
R;mac_
and
other
~arts ~
aod
who accordingly appeared at the Rendezvous, and
havmg
ordered the Mare·
fchal
Alonfo
de
Alvarado·
(
as \\ e have hinted before )
t
o goe tothe
City
of
Los ·
Reye.r
to raife Men and co prpvide Horfe and Arms and Mon.ey and
Spanf
/h
Cl<;>th
for the afe of the Army, and
to
bring the Guns from the Ships; all whKh being
accompliilied, and fufficient Ammunition and Vietuals
provided_;
it
was dfter–
mined that
che
Camp fhould remove from
Saufa
to meet
Gonfalo
Psfarro;
and Of–
ficers were appointed for better
G~:>Vernment
of the Army ; .as the three Hifiofr..
ans
agree, and particularJy
Garate
m
the
fourth
Chapter of
his
feventh Book hath
chefe \\ ords.
The Camp
w3s
ordered, faith he,
in
this manner
r
Pedro
Alonfo
de
Hinojoftt
con:.
tinued in
the Office
of General, as was agreed
when
he
firfr
furrendred up the
Fleet at
P4nama.
The Marefchal
Al~n(o
Alvarado
was
made Lieutenant
General ;
Liccncittdo Benito de
Carvajal
'
Standard
Bearer
General'
and
Pedro
de
Yilla-viclnci-0
··was raade Serjeant Major.
The
Captains of Horfe were
Don Pedro
Cabrer~,
Go.
me~
de
.Alvarado,
f
ohn de Saavedra,
Diego
de Mora
,
Francifco
Hernande~
,
Rodrigo
de
SalaUlr
and
Alonfo
de
Mendofa.
Captains of Foot were
Don Balta[ar
de
Caftilla,
'
Pa11!0
de Mmefes,
Hernando
Mexia
de
Guz.man;. rohn Alonfo Palomino,
Gome~
de
Solu
'
Francifco
Mofquera
'
non
Hernando
de CardenM
'
Admiral
Andagoya'
Fran–
cifco
de
Olmos'
Gome~
DariM'
Captain
Poree/'
Captain
Pardavel
and
Captain
Serna.
Captain
GravieL
de
RojM
was made Mafier of the Ordnance.
In
com-pany with the Prefident were
the
Arch.l;>iiliop of
Los Reyes,
the
Bifhops
of
CoZ.co.
and
~itu,
and Father
71'JOmM
de San
Martin
,
Provincial of St.
Dominicl{_s
O
rder
j
with many other Friars and Priell:s. At the lafi: Mufier there were lifted
feven
hundred Mufquetiers,
five
hundred Pike-men and four hundred Horfernen:
the
which number increa[ed co a thoufand nine hundred by that time that they
arrived
at
Xttquixaguava:
and fo the Camp removed from
Xauxa
on the twency ninth of
Decemher,
in the year
1547.
and marched in good order towards the City of
Co:t:-c<>-,
and endeavoured to find forne fi1allow place, where
they
might with the leaft
danger foard over the River of
Avancll.J.
Thus far
Auguftine Garate :
fo
that be..
fides
the
four principal
Offi<.~ers, vi~.
the General, Lieutenant General,
Standard–
bearer and Serjeant
Major~
there were feven Captains of Horfe, and thirteen of
Foor, befides the Mafi:er of the Ordnance, who were all Noble;., and pe. rfons
ot
Q!Jaliry (
moft of which I knew ) and with.thefe Officers and rorces the Prefi.·
dent removed his Camp from
Saufa,
to
find the Enemy, and came
to
Huamanca,
where being great want of Provifions , they were forced
to
proceed forward in all
bafie to the Province of
Antahut1.Jll~
with intention to winter there; being a
Countrey (as we have laid before) abounding
with
all forts of Provifions.
Ac
this
place the
Prefident with his
whole
.Army
made fome
fray
in expeetation
of
the coming of the Marefchal
Alonfo
de
Alvarado,
who brought new Recruits com-
. Qlanded by their own Captains, anq were (as
Augufline
Carate
reports)
~bout
three
hundred
men, of whom we !hall
fpeak
more in
the
following
Chapter.
CH
AP.
XXIX.
Of the Captains and
principal Men
of
Quality; and Soul–
diers
who
~anze
to
Antahuaylla
to
ferve his
Majefly.
And
the
great
]OJ
there
was
at their
Ar:ival.
T.
HE
Prefident
quar.tered
~is
J\rmy
in
AntahuayUa
for above
the
fpace of
three month ; durmg
which time the
People flocked
in.
to him from all
pa;ts: umongfi them was
'"Alonfo
de Mendoffl,
who efcaped from the
Batted
of
H11-
ar1na
(whom we forgot
to
mention in the due place)' and was preferred to the
Command of Captain
of
Horfe. About
a month and a
half
afrer the Prefident
entered into
Antah11a)'lla,
the Marefchal
Alonfo
de
Alvarado
came thither with a
hun-
dn.'d