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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
V.
his Counfel
""as
not followed; that giving all
for
lofi he refufed to
rake
charge of
the Army, but entered himfelf into the
ranks
of the
Infantry
to
0a°i{
!ike a pr}vate.Captain
t
for which reafon Hifl:orians make no mention
dr
c
.
g
~
ID
all
thIS
achon.
aT11t1]
Whilll:
the Officers were thus
bufily
employed
in
difpofing the
Army
in
the·
feveral
Stati~os,
q
arfilajfo,.
my
Lord,
ca~e o~c
from amongfi chem, and
upon
pr~
tence that
~
Indtan
ha.d
neglelt~
to bnng hi.m
his
Lance, he defcended down
to–
wards the River, calli_ng out
with
a loud v01ce to his
Indian;
and
fo
foon as he
was
got below the Chfts of the
W.
arer-galls,
he
hafined
with
all fpeed poffible
towards the Royal Camp, and havmg pafied the wet ground \ hich
was
0etween
the two
Armies,
an~
which _drains it
{elf
in
r~e
River, he then afcended into
the
upper grounds, and
m
the view ofborh Armies, he prefenred himfelf before the
Pr~~em, wh~
received and embraced him with open Arms; and fa.id to
him,
S~1gH1~ur
Garftlaj[o,
~have
lo!lg
expe~ed
that you thould render
chisfervice co
h1s Ma1efiy: To which
Garfilaffo
replied, That he had long
been
a prifoner
with..
out liberty, and
~efl:rained
from making
this open demonfiration, bat
fiill
had
a
heart
and good
will
thereunto.
Pifarro
was much troubled at the departare
and
!ofs of
Garfil'!Jfo;
·~et,
not to difcourage
his
own
me~,
he feerned co make
light
of
it;
and meeting with a Cofin German of my Fathers called
Gome~ Suare~
de FigH–
eroa,
he
faid,
Garfilaf{o
hath left
us,
and do not you think now, that he
will
be in
a
fine condition,
in
cafe we fhould get the Vietory
?
and thus did he
fiill
flatter
himteJf with hopes of fuccefs, which in a !bore time after failed,
and
he
unde..
ceived. My Father's efcape
was,
as now related, though
the
Hifiorians
tell us
firfi of the flight
of
Licenciado
Cepeda,
and
then of my Father and others,
as
if
they had all goo away together, but their information
was
not
fo
particular
as
mine: but there is another Writer, who relates the matter as I have done, and
names my Father
in
the fufi place , and then
a
Cofin
of mine,
and
others,
and
that
Gonfalo
Pip1rro
was greatly afHieted and troubled
for
it: And
then
proceeding
on
with
his Story, he fays that
Licenciado Cepeda
foon followed afcer
chem.
The
truth
is,
Gdrfilaj[o
de
/1i
Vega
Bed
fingly
without other company, and that
h~
contrived
his
efcape in thofe tliree days that
Pifarro
was
in
the field before the Enemy
was
come up, during which
time
he
f
urveyed the ground and places over
which
he
might pafs with
mofi
fafety; and then it was that he plotted, that
his
Indian
iliould
not
bring his
Lance~
that
he might have an excufe ro depart from
his
company;
and
that he paifed under covert of the
Clifts,
by the River fide; the which
Par–
ticulars
I
heard from himfelf, together with the feveral paffages and fuccefies
of
that great aetion,
when
he had leifare freely
to
difcourfe thereof
in
t.herimes
of
peace and fettlemenr,
I
have alfo heard
Garf ilajfo,
my Lord,
fav,.
that after
Gon·
falo
Piyarro
had taken away his horfe
SalinillM
at
the Bartel of
Huarintt,
as
is
before .
mentioned, that he purpofely omitted
to
buy hirnfelf another, that
fo
Pif arro
ob·
ferving
him on
foot, might be moved either
to
return
his
horfe to
him
again,
or
fupply
him
with fome ocher: and accordingly it happened,
for
that
four
days be–
fore
Pifttrro
marched out of
Co~o,
to
fight rhe Battel at
Sacfahuana
,
he
ret~rn~d
him
his
horfe
Salini!LM,
which was
Co
welcome
to
him, that when he
faw
him
in
his Stable, he thought that fome Angel from Heaven
had
brought
him
thither.
I
have not repeated rhefe Particulars
to
excufe my Father, for all thofe matters
are
already pafl:,
but
to
relate the truth of things,
with
the circumfrances of days,
hours and moments ;
for
I
intend neither
ro
accufe nor re.fleer on
any man, but
like
a
plain Hill:orian
to
lay
down matter of Falt. And
fo
accordingly let
us re-
turn
to the fuccefs of that BatfeL
•
,,.
Pi
yarro
Forces were dra
n
up according
to
the diretl:ion of
L icenciado
Cepeda:
and by the fide of the Mountain a
Parry
of Mufqueriers were detached
co
skir..
mi{h
with the Enemy :
oppofe which the Captains
H ernan Mexia
de
G11.vn1t»
and
[ohn A Lonfo P alumino
e commanded out with their Companies,
and
caufed
chem
to
retreat without lofs
or
hurt on either fide. In the mean time
rhe
Cannon
plaid on both fides: bu: that of
PifarYo's
did no execution, becaufe
the
Prerdenr'
F orces being drawn ap
10
a low ground,
they
fhot over
:
bur che P refident s Can–
non being pfaoted
to
more advantage, commanded che Enemy's Camp on
~
,
fo
chat two men were
ki
ed with the great {' ot, one of
wbicb
was
age
to
P1p:r–
?o.
Whilfi
Licettdado Ctpeda
as
drawing ap the Forces his eyes
w
e
{till
ro
ard
t he
ay where he
might
beft ek:ape to che Enemy ; and. feigning
as
if
e
loo
ed
for a more
advamage-0us ground,
fo
foon as he found
h1m
f
at fome c