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VI.
ther
trouble to Friend! to
intercede in
my
behalf, which
i 1
lik.f!J t o
be
M
inejfeEtua[
h
ha.thalready
pajfed.
A!ld having faid this,
the
Afs
~as
whipped
forward,
:Od'
h~
ran the gantlet accordmg to the Sentence, to the great difpleafure and regret
both
of
Spaniards
and
Indians
;
who were troubled to fee a Gentleman on
fo
fiigh
cau[e, dHhonoured
by
a
punifhment
not
'1greeing
ro
his QQ_aliry ;
howfoever
th
a
avenged himfelf
afterwards, accordjng
co
the Law of
Honour
practifed
in
th~
World~
CH
A ,
P. XVIII.
The revenge which
Aguire
took_ for thi affront.
The dili–
gence ufed
by
the
Governo~r
of
oz o
to tak,.e
Aguire;
the 11zanner how he made his efcape.
A
Fter
this
Aguire
could
not
be perfoaded co purfue his defign of the
Conquefi
though the Inhabitants of
Potocfi
offered to have affified him with all thing;
neceffary thereunto;
bur
he excufed himfelf, faying,
That
after
fuch
a
fhame
as this
death
was his one!J remet!J
11nd con{olation,
which
~
woHld
endeavour
to obtain aJ
foon
~
pojfi_b!e;
under
this melancholy he remained in
Peru
untill the time
in
which
che
Office
of
Efquivel
expired; and
then he
always,
like
a defperate
man,
purfued and
followed him, watching an opportunity to kill him, and wipe off the fhame of
the
late
affront.
E[q11rivel~
being informed of this
defperace
refolucion
by
his
Friends, endeavoured
t<!>
~void
his
Enemy, and
cook a journey of three or
four
hundred leagues
from birn, fuppofing
that
Aguire
would not
purfue
him at fuch a
difiance : but
the
farther
Ef'l..ntvet
fled the more earnefi was
Aguire
to
follow
him.
The
fufi
journey
which
Efquivel
cook was
to the
City
of
Los
Reyes,
being
three hundred and
twenty
leagues
dHlant;
but
in
lefs
than fifteen
days
Aguire
was
there
with him:
wher~pon
Efip1ivel
took another
flighr,
as far
as
to
the City of
~ito,
being four hundred leagues dillant from
Los lf.f>:Yu,
but
in
a
little
more
than
twenty days
4guirc
was
again
witn
him:
which being intimated
to
EfqHivcl,
be
took
another leap
as far
as
Couo,
which
is
five hundred leagues from
~ito;
but
in a few
days
after
he
arrived there came his old
Friend
Aguire,
travelling
all
the
way on
foot,
without Shoes or
Stockins, faying, that
it became not
tbe
conditi–
on of a
whipped
Rafcal to rravel oo Horfeback or appear amongfr
men.
In
this
manner
did
Aguire
haunt and purfue
EfiJuivel
for
three .years and
four
months :
/ who being now tired and wearied with
fo
many long and tedious journies, which
profited him little ; he refolved to fix his abode at
Couo,
where he believed that
Aguire
would fcarce adventure
co
ateempt
any
thing again
fr
him, for fear
of
the
Judge
who governed
that
Ciry,
who was a
feve_re
man, impartial and
inflexible
in all his proceedings : and accordingly took a Lodgin
· the middle of the Street
of
the great
Church,
where
he lived
with
great care an
caution, wearing
a Coat
of
under his upper Coar;
and
wenc always armecl with his Sword and Dag–
ger, which are Weapons nor
agreeable
co his profeffion. At this time a
certain
Kinf
man of my
Fathers,
the
Son
of
Gomez
de
Tordoya,
and of
his
name, fpoke to
J?,f
quivel,
and told
him,
rbat
fioce he was his
Counrrey-man
of
Ejlremenno,
and
his
Friend,
he
could
not
bat
advife
him
(as
it \
as
known
over
all
Pent)
how
diligent
Aguire
had been to dog
and
folfow him with purpofe aod intenr co
kill
him;
wherefore
if
yQu
pleafe I
will
come
and lodge
by
night in the fame Houfe
with you, which
perhaps
will diven:
Aguire
from coming thither.
Efqnivel
rhan·
ked him,
and
told
him that
he always went
\'ell pr.ovided ·
for he n er put off
his Coat of Mail, nor
laid
hi offenfi e Arms afide ; and to be more
wary
or cau–
tious
than this would be fcandalou co the
Cicy,
and fhew coo much fear of a
poor fellow \\ho was of
a
little and a
contemptible
prefence:
Howfoe\i
er the
fury
of his mind,
and
the
defire of
re
enge
ha
exalted
hi
ab
\ Te
his
natur31
fiamre
and proportion
~nd
rendi;ed
him
as confiderabl
as
Diego Gar "'de
P.1rede.1,.
an?
'John
de
Vrbin11
'
ho were famous men
in
their
rime :
in
vi rtue
and for e
of
th!}
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