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Royal
Commentarier.
Boot\
V.
Foot,
.fol~owed
the fame example,
~nd
furrendred themfelves likewife co rhe p
fi
dent _:
in
like
manner
forty Mufquet1ers of the leftWing took the fame wa
w·
re
1
•
any purfuit made after chem; for marching off in a Body they often faced
~b irh~ut
tending
to
.defend themfelves in_cafe they
~ould
meetanr oppofition;
Ando~~~~
·Over
by this time
Alonfo
de
Mendop:t
and
Diego Cmteno,
with a
party
of fixcy H
fi
had
place.clthernfelves
ben~een en~ E~emy an~
the B9g, to fuccour fuch as
fh~~kl
make cheir efcape.
Carva1al
all this tJme concmued
hlS
Song, roaring
it
our al d
as he
fa
v rhe parties run
aw~y.
The 1:ike-men, finding
~hemfelves
naked
~~d
for
fa
ken .on both fides by their Mufquet1ers, and no poflib1lity for them to mak
their flight, upon pretence of skirmifh with the Enemy, all on a fudden
rhre~
down tl-ieir Arms and fled by feveral ways, which put an end to all
Pif_arro's
Forces
!his \yas the fuccefs
~f
the Batcel. of
Sacfahuana,
if
fo
it
may be called a Bactel;
m which there was
ne1t~er
blow with a Sword, nor pufh with a Lance, nor Muf:
quet !hot of Enemy agamfi
En~my,
no:
nothin~
m<?re than what is before related:
and
fo
fudden was the defiruchon of
P1pirroj
chat
if
we iliould enlarge
thereupon
it
would take up more time in the reading than there was in the tranfaction there–
of. On
Pifarro's
fide, as
Gomara
reports, ten or twelve were kilJed ; all which
dyed
b~ ~he
hand of
Pedro
M artin
de Don Benito,
and other Officers in purfuit
of
the
Fug1u
ves, but by
the
Forces of the
Prefident
not a man was {lain
:
though
Hifiorians fay borh Parties were within !hot of each other, and whole Vollies
were interchanged; yet
it
is certain they were above five hundred
paces
dillant
each from the other : On the other fide but one was unluckily killed
by
the
~
chance of a fhet
from his Companion.
CH AP.
·xxxv1.
Gon~alo
Pi¥arro
furrenders
hi111falf,
judging
it
lefs
di/h~
nourable .fo
to
doe
than
to
turn
his
hacl{
and
fly.
The dif
courfe
which pa/fed
between
the Prefident and hini.
The
imprifon111ent of
Francifco de Carvajal.
T
HE Pikemen having thrown
down
their Arms,
Gonfalo Pipirro
and his
Cap–
tains were fw·prifed with a fl:range all:onifhrnent, being an
Att
contrary co
all expeltarion: And then
Piptrro,
turning his face to
'/ohn
de
Acofta,
faid, Brochet
[ohn
what {hall we doe?
Acojta,
prefumiog
on
his valour more than on his
own
difcretion, aofwered, Sir,
lee
us fight and
dye
like old
Roman1.
No, faid
Pifarro,
it
is beccer to dye like Chrill:ians.
Gomara,
upon this occafion, Chap.
1
8
6,
&ich,
chat
his words were like a good Chriftian and a valiant Man, for he judged
it
more honourable to furrender than
to
dye,
for
that
he had never turned his
back
to his Enemy,
&c.
And he adds farther, that
Pifarro
fiill kept himfelf
in
a very
excellent
garb,
mounted on a
brave
Horfe of
a Chefnut colour; he
was
armed
with a Coat ofMail, and over
it
a
'N
alkoat of Sattin well beaten with many
doubles, and on his Head he wore
a
Helmet and Be er of Gold,
&c. Anglljfi11e
Carate
fays, that the Coat which he wore over his
Ar
s was of an incarnation Vel–
vet, covered almoll: all over with boffes ofGold ; and that he faid co
[ohn
de
Aco..
fta,
fince all people are going over
to
the King, I
alfo.amgoing
like~i1e,
&c.
Ha·
ving faid chis, he proceeded to the
Roy.alCamp,
wuh thofe Captams \ ho were
contented
to
follow
him; namely
'fi)hn de Acofta,
Maldomtdo,
{ohn
Pele~
de Guevara;
#and as he was
going
in this manner, be met wirh
Pedro
de
Villavicencio;
whom he
obferviog to be well attended, asked
vv
ho he was, and
underfiaodin~
chat he was
the Serjeant-Major; he faid to him, ram
Gonfalo PifarYo
and. am
.gomg
to
ren9er
my felf co the Emperour: having faid this, he yielded up co him his
Dagg~r
which
he carried
in
his hand, for that (as
Garate
faith) he had
broken
and fpenc his
~e
upos his own people which fled from him.
Villavicencio
was very proud ofchis hJ.S
good fortune, and
with
many
fair words returned him thanks for the great
favoh~