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pl~~fe9
, and laughe_d,
wo~9ering
to fee fuch prefence of mind and readinefs of
iI?1nt ma ma_n of lus cond1t1on
to
reply
fo
aptly on every thing that was faid
to
hun. All this and much more paKed between
Can;ajal
and others
on the
ve
day of th.
J?attel,
or rather
a
Defeat without_ a Batte! : But
as
to
Gonfalo
Pif:?–
ro,
he remamed alone, and no company admitted to fee him , becaufe he
fo
de~
fired
it:
unlefs
Diego Centeno
and fix
or
feveo principal Souldiers more who were
[et
over him for his guard.
'
.
Th~
day following
Gonfalo Pifarro
and
_bis
Lieutenant General, with
all the
Caprams taken, were brought
to
Executton , as
Gcrmara
relates, chap.
1
g
7 _
and
particularly nominates
rohn de Acofta
,
Francifeo Maldonado, fohn
Vele~
de
Guevara
Dioniji_o
de Bovadilla, Gonp;ilo de
Loj
Nidof;
and fays, that of the
laft
of them tbey
drew
hi
Tongue
?ut
at
_the Nape of his Neck ; but he alledges no reafon
for
it;
onely
·e may believe, it was
for
treafonable words fpoken againft his
Imp€rial
Majefl:y
:
all chefe and many others were hanged ; and though they
\~:ere
Geri–
tl~rnen)
yet they loll: their privilege
by
becon:ing Traycor and Rebels to
their
Kmg
:
After they were xecured, their Heads \ ere cut off, and
fem
into divers
parts and Cities
of
the Countrey
:
Tbe Heads of
{ohn de Aco.fta
and
Fra11oifco
Maldon,,1do
\~' ere
pitched upon Iron Spikes in the Market-place o
Cc~co,
which l
faw
there , though
Palentino,
chap.
92.
faith? rhat
Aco.fta's
Head
as
fet up
at
Lo.r
R,eyef :
the Head of
Dionifio de Bovadilla,
and another
V\
ith his,
was
carried
to
Aref!uepa;
and thereby that which the good Lady
roan
de
Leytow
prefaged
of
this
Bovadilla,
as
accomplifhed; faying, when he canied the Head of
Lope
de
Mendo–
ftt
to
be fet up in that City, that
they
fhould
in
a
fhort time rake that Head down,
and fer up his
in
the place thereof. The feveral Aurhours
wr~te,
that they ha!l:–
ned the execution of
Gonrali
i§arl'o
and of
his
Officers concerned with
him,
with all expedition poffible ;
for ·
they conceived rhat the Countrey could not
be fafe and
in
peace ' hiHl: they were living.
Pi
~a''°
received femenc
o foive
his
Mead
cut
off for
a
Traytor, his houfes in
Cozco
demolHhed , and the
ground
fo
ed with
Salt, and
<thereon
a
Pillar raifed with this Infcription,
Thefe are the
Dwellirtg.r of
th11t
Traytor
Goo<;alo
Pi~arro,
&c.
All
which
I
my
folf
have
feen performed
and
aeted, and thofe very houfes
ra–
zed
to
the ground, which were once the lot of
Gonfalo Pifarro
and his Brothers,
when the Counqey
as divided : that place in the
Indian
Tongue was called
Co–
racora,
hich
is
as much as to fay,
The
He,,.6-garden. Pifarro,
a
we have faid,
~as
deteined a Prifoner
in
the Tent
of
Captain
Diego Centeno,
where they
u[ed
him
with
the
fame
refpelt
as
had been given him in the rime of his greatefl: Profperi–
ty
:
all that day he would eat nothing , though invited
to
it ,
but walked
up an
down the whole day very peofive and full of thoughts. After fome hours
in
rhe
night he called
ro
Centeno,
and asked
him
wherh~r
he
v
as fecute
for
that
night?
his meaning was,
wh
ther they would
kill him
that night, or let him live untih
the next day ;
for
he was not ignorant that his Enemies thirfred
after
his bloud
i
fuch a manner that every hour feemed a year to chem untill he"' as difpatched out
of this World.
Centmo
(\nf ered, that he might refi fecure as
to
that, howfoever
h· mind was unquiet ; he Jay down after Mid-night and ilept for about the fpace
of n hour, and then arifing again, he \Valked unrill break of day ; and fo
foon
as it
V\
as
light, he defired
ro
have ra Confeffour, \Vith whom he remained
untilI
Noon:
here \l\'e
ill
leave him
for
awhile
ro
entertain our felves' ith a Narrative
of the manner how
Carvttjal
behaved himfelf that day, which in reality \
1
vas not
fo wild and extravagant
as
one of our Aurhours reporrs it
to
have been; but
in
a
far different manner, as
I
fhall rel te ;C\'ith grea
c truth
and impartiality : Nor
am
I
moved to [peak favourably of him in refpe&
to
former benefits and
en~ge
ments v•·hich
I have
received from him ; but rather the contrary, for he deGgned
~
to
have killed
my
Father after the Battel of
Huarina,
and fought
for
forne
pre–
tences for it, arifing from jealoufie and his own vJin fufpicions. Howfoever an
Hifiorian ought to
lay
aficde
all
prejudicse and malice..againfi any
per~
n ,
nor
(peak
out of favour or affeet:ion , but clearly
ro
relate
matter
of
fatt
for
mformauon of
pofierity in
afcer-Ag~s:
And
accordin_gly
I
~rotefi ~
a
ChrilHan, rha_t
I
have
a–
breviated many particulars, and om1tted divers cz1rGumfiances
o!
rhmg
that
.I
might not feem biaf!ed towards any perfon, or plainly
to
contradict the
.allegat~ons of the aforefaid Aurhours, ancl particularly
Pale--11tino,
wh
ca~e
late
rnto
chis
Countrey; and took
UJ:>
many
Fabl~
which the_ comr:1<tm .People reported for
Truths,
acco{diag
co
the
feveral
Faet10ns
and
Parties wlilch
they follm ed.
The