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V.
R.oyal
Commentarie1.
C
H_
A P.
XXXVII.
What paffed between
Francifco de
Carvajal,
Diego
C n–
teno
and the Prefident.
Thf! imprifon1nent
of
the
other
Captains.
U
p
ON the rumour that
Carvajal
was
tlken
prifooer,
the Souldiers came floc–
king
to fee
a
perfon
fo
famous as·
\~as
this
FrancifcfJ
de
Carvajal,
and infiead
of comforting him in this affiictioo,
they
put lighted Matches to
his
Neck, and
endeavoured
co
thrull: them down between his Shirt and
his
Skin; and going
in
this
manner he efpied Captain
Diego Centeno,
who
~ad
newly placed
Gonf_alo
P_ifarro
in
his Tent under
a
fafe Guard,
and
committed him to
th~
charge of
hx
faithful!
and crufty Friends; and being come out into the Field,
Carvajal
feeing
him,
cried
,,
out aloud, Captain
Diego Centeno,
you ought to efleem
i~
as a
par~cular
fervice
that I come to render my felf into your hands: the meamng of which was, that
he
having been the Lieutenant-General of an Army, and one who had often over–
thrown him in fight, and parcicularly at
Huarina,
did now
in
refpetl:
to
him yield
himfelf his Prifoner rather than to any other
j
which, according to the ceremonies
of
War
amongfi Captai s and Souldiers, is ell:eemed
a
high complement ; and
that now he might fatisfie his revenge upon him, and triumph over his Enemy.
Diego Centeno·
turning his face about, and feeing that it was
Carvajal
who called
upon him;
Sir~
faid he,
I
am forry
to
fee you in this difitefs: I believe you, faid
Carvajal,
to
be
a Chriftian and
a
Gentleman; and
that
you
will
deal with me
ac-
·
cordingly, and that you will command thefe Geqtlemen here not
to
treat
me
as
they have done, meaning
the
lighted Matches;
which
when
Centeno
underfiood,
and
that
the Rabble
was
nqt a!hamed
ro
perGfi and
own
the
faet
in his prefence,
thinking
to pleafe him by this ufage or
his
Enemy, he bafranadoed them ,, ith his
Cane, being a fort of Seamen and Clowrls who .followed the C<!mp, and aeted
according to their breeding.
Centeno,
having freed him ·from that vile fort
of
people, delivered him into the cufiody of two Souldiers, who were to guard him,
and not
fuffer
any injury or affront
to
be done him; and
as
they were
carrying
him away they met with the Governour
Pedro de Valdivia,
who defired
of
Centeno
co
grant him the honour of condueting the
Prifoher
before t:he Prefident ; which
was affented unto, conditionally that he iliould afterwards fend him to his Tent,
being defirous
ro
be his keeper-, becaufe he believed tbat
m
what
plac~-foever
elfe
he
!hould be committed, be would be
ill
treated and fubjed:ed
to
many ipfo·
lences
an~
affronts, in revenge of the former cruelties he had <lone
to
other~.
And
being brought by
Paldivia
before the J?refident, he reproached him vith the
ty:–
rannies
and
cruelties he had committed upon his Majefty''s Subje& againfi the
publick peace, and che allegeance he owed unto his
Sover~ign.
To
all
~
hich
Car–
vajal
anfwered not one wordl. nor
fubmitted
himfelf, nor feemed to give any at–
cenrion
to
what\' as faid to
him ;
but turned his eyes on
eacq
fide of
him,
with
a
grave and rnajefl:ick look, as if he
had
been Lord Paramouht
of all
t
0ie
people
wqo were about him ; which
when
the Prefident percei\leCl,
l=ie
commanded him
to be taken and carried to
Diego Centeno,
who placed h\m 1n a
Tent
aJ'.>att from
Pifarro,
where they
might
have
no
fociety
dr
converfe ogether, nor fee each
other any more.
,
·
,
All
the other <Sapcains and 0fficers wete l1kewife taken, fome the fame
day,
and others afterwards, fo that not one of theit) efcaped, excepting Captain
[-ohn
de
la 7:orre,
who
lay
concealed four mohths at
Cozco
in
a
poor
firaw
Cottage of an
Indi1tn
Servant of
his,
without any knowledge or tidings of him
as
if
he
had been
f~nk
under
gro~cl, un,~ill
fuch time as a
Spa~iard
unluckily
m~de
a
dill:overy
csf
him,
not knowing
that it was he,
and then he
was-
taken- and
hanged, chough a
long time after the others.
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CHAP.
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