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Rojal Commentarier.
BooK
V.
not to interrupt, by a long
d~gre~on,
the proper current ·of the Hifto
, we
fi:all
~ow
fupply
~hat
defelt
m
t~lS
pla_ce.
Donna Maria
Calder()1J,
thou~
reft–
dmg
1~
her enemies. quarters, and
m
their
~ower,
yet made
it
her common
dif–
c?urfe
m
al_l companies,
to
fp~ak
open_ly agamfi
Gonfalo Pifarro;
and notwithfian–
dmg
Carvaptl,
to whom the mformations were brought, did twice
or
thrice
ad
rnonifh her co be lefs liberal in her language, and to be more prudent
and
cautiou~
in her
fpeec~es,
as did other Friends who wHhed her
~ell;
liowf.Q.ever
fhe made
no
~fe
of this good counfel, but vented_her paffion with mo•e
li?Jerty
and
indif–
creuon than before
:
whereupon
Carva;al
went one day to her Lodging, and told
her (Lady Goffip)
I am
come
to
cure
you
of
your
too
much
prating,
and I
k.tzow
110
other
~eme;J.y
for
it
th~n
to
choa!zy~u:
but
!he,
f~llowing
her pleafant humour, and think–
ing chat
Carva1al
was
i~
Jell:;
~way,
fa1d fhe, you drunken Fool in the
Devil's
name, for though you 1efi,
I
will fiop my ears to you, and not hear: in earneft
faid he,
I
do not
jell ;
for
I
come to cure you of too much loquacity :
for
tba~
you may not prate as you have
don~
I
come to flreighten rhe widenefs of
your
Throat; and
to
{hew you
that
I
am m·earnell:, behold here are
my
Ethiopian
Soul–
diers at hand who are co doe you this fervice; for he always carried three or
four
Nef.roe1
with him for fuch Offices as this : hereupon he went his way, and
his
Myr–
midons
immediately firangled her, and hanged
her
Body out at a Window
looking
to
the
treet ; and as he was under, he cafi up his eyes and faid,
Vpon
my
life, Lad.J
Gojfip,
if
this
be not a
remedy
to
affright
you
from
too
much
talkjng, I k._now not what
other
means
to
ufe.
Carvajal
being at a certain City where his Souldiers were quartered upon the
In–
habitants, and having occafion to march from thence, two months afterwards he
returned again
to
che fame City; where an Officer of
che
Town, fearing
that
chey
would quarter the fame Souldier upon
l}im
which formerly had been with
him,
went to
Carvajal
and defired him that that Souldier might not be put qpon him:
Carvajal
underfl:anding him, gave him a nod infiead of other
anf
wer : And co–
ming
co
the place where quarters were to be affigned to the Sonldiers,
he faid
to
every one of chem particularly ; Go you to
fuch
a place, and you to
fuch a
place,
and
fo
difpofed of every one of them as
if
he had carried
a
lifi of the Inhabitants
names in writing ; at length coming to the Souldier before-mentioned ; and you, ·
Sir, faid he, go
co
fuch
a
Houfe, which was
far from
the Chamber where he
for–
merly quartered: Sir, replied the Souldier,
I
defire to go to my old Landlord,
where
I
am
~ell
known ; No, faid
Carvajal,
I
would have you go
to
the
place
which I affign you: but the Souldier would not be
Co
anfwered, faying, that he
had
no need
co
change his quarters, whire he was fo
well
entertained before;
and
then
Carvajal,
moving his head with great gravity,
I
would
have
your Worjhip
go,
faid he,
to the
place
I
have
appointed for
]OU,
where
you
will
be very weU treated;
and
if
J 'OU
want
any
thing
more, my
Lady
Catalina Leyton
will
be
near
at
hand
to
farve
you:
and then the Souldier, underll:anding that he {hould be well provided for,
accepted his offer, and
fa
id no more.
The Head
of
Francifco
de
Carva1al
being cut off, was carried
to
the
City
of
L<J1
Re.>·es,
and there fixed upon the Gallows in the Market-place, in company with
the Head of
Gonfalo
Pifarro;
his Quarters, with thofe of other Captains concer–
ned in the fame condemnation were fet up in the four great Roads which lead to
the City
of
Couo.
And in regard that in Chap.
33.
of the fourch Book, we have
promifed
to
give an account of the poifon with which the
Indians
of the Hland of
IJarlovento
did ufually infeet their Arrows, by !licking them
in
the flelh of dead
men :
I
!hall, in confirmation thereof, relate what
I
fa
w
experienced on one of
the Qgarters of
Carvajal,
which was hanged up in the f:Iigh-way
~vhich
leads to
Collafuya,
which
is
to
the South-ward of
Co~co.
The thmg was this.:
One day, being
Sunday,
ten or twelve Boys
Qf
the fame School with me, whofe
F:ithers were
Spaniards
and Mothers
Indians,
all of us
unde~ t~e
age
o~
twelve
ye~rs,
walking abroad
to
play,
v.-e
efpied the Quarters of
Carvap1.l
10
t~e
Field, at
w~1ch
"e all cried, let us go 3nd fee
Carva;al;
and being come tot
P
ce,
' 'e
percen_ed
that the Qiarter hanging there
~as
his Thigh, very
fa
1
mking
and
reen v
1ch
corruption. Hereupon one of the Boys
faid,
that none 0f them
urft
o and
ro~ch
him: Some faid yes, fome faid no; with which they
divi ded inro cv.
o
parues,
but none dudl: come near it,
until!
one Boy, called
Bartholomew
Mo11edero,
more
bold and unlucky than the refr, How,
fa
id he, dare not
1
?
a~d
·ith that ran and
thruft
his
middle
Finger
clear
through
the
Q!arter; upon which we all ran fr?m
him,