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VI.
Royal Commentaries.
delired revenge he adventured one Monday at noon co enter
into
the Houfe of
Efquivel,
and
having
walked for fome time
in
the
yard
below, and!"
t~e Gall~
above,
and
ha\
ing paffed through a
Hall and a
Cham~r,
and
entn~g
me?
an
10-
ward Chamber where he kept his Book, he
found
him there {leepmg with
one
in
his
hand, and
coming
fofcly
to him, he _fi{lbb'd him with his Dagger
~hrough
the
right
Temple of
his
head,
and
gave
him
three or four fiabbs more rnto the
Body, not where the Coat of
covered him,
but-in
the
opening of.his
Clothes.
After which
Aguire
returned by che
fame
way
that he came,
and
bemg come to
the fl: reer
Door, miffing
his
Hat he
had
the
courag~
to
reE_urn
again
~nd
ferch
it,
and
there\'\ ith went
OU
t
into
rhe ftreet,
anQ walked hke a mad-man Without feofe
or judgment, never thinking
to
cake Santtuary in the Church, but
walked
open–
ly
in
the
fireets towards
St.
Francifco,
\
here
was a
Convent Eafi-ward from
the
great Church ; neither did he cake refuge there, but wandring through a fireet
on
the
left
hand,
he made
a
fiop at the
place'
here
a
oundation
was laid for
the
Convent of
St.
Clare;
and in
a little
Alley
chereabouc he
met
two young
Gentle–
men, Kinfmen to
Rodrigo de Peneda,
to
whom he faid, hide me, hide
me,
with–
out being able
to
fay
one word more, but looked like a man frantick and out
of
his wits. The Gentlemen, who knew his difcontent,
and
his defire of
revenge;
asked him, Whether he had killed
Efquivel?
To which
Aguire
anfwered,
Yes,
hide me,
hide
me.
Then the Gentlemen
carried him
into
che
Houfe of
a
Kinf–
rnan of theirs where
were
three back yards, in the farthermoll: of which there
was a kind
of a Stie, where they fatted their
Hogs and
Poulcery at the time
of
year,
and
there they
concealed
him, ordering him
by
no means
to
go out of
that
place,
or fhew his head
abroad.
As
to the back yards, they fecured them
in
that
manner chat no
Indi~n1
iliould go
in,
having no bufinefS to doe there ;
and
they
told him,
chat
he lhould not need to take care for ViCl:uals, for they would make
a provifion for him: which they accordingly did, for dining and fopping
always
in the Houfe of their Kinfmao, they would privately at every
meal
flip Bread and
Meat into their Pockets ; with
which,
upon pretence of going co the back-fide
on
their neceffary occafions,
they
reJieved this poor
Aguire
in
his
Hog-llie,
and in
this
manner
they fed and maintained him for die
f
pace
of forty days.
So foon as the Mayor or Governour heard of the death of
Efquiv el
he comman-
ded ch·e Bells to be
rung out ;
and the
Indians
of
CannAris
were fet for Guards and
Sentinels at the
Gates
of the City, and at the door of the Convents; and Proclama–
tion was made,
that
no man fhould go out of the City without a Pafs or Licenfe
obtained from the Govemour,
and
fearch was made in all Convent', and the
corners of them, that nothing could be more diligently performed, unlefs they
would have pulled them down. This Watch and Ward continued in the City
for thirty days, without the leafi news of
Aguire,
as if he had been funk under
ground.
Ac
length,
V\
earied with
a
fruitlefs fearch, the Sentinels and
Guards
were taken off from the City; but howfoever a Warch was continued on the
High-ways,
and maintained with a firiet
examination
of all
that
paifed. At the
end of forty days, the[e Gentlemen, called
Santillan
and
Catanno,
both
of
noble
extraction, (with whom I was acquainted, and met one
of
them in
Seville
when
I arrived firfi in
Spain)
thought
fit
to free tbemfelves from the danger which they
incurred by concealing
Aguire
:,
for they knew
that
the Judge was a fevere man,
and would have no
mercy
on them
in
cafe the matter were difcovere-d;
whereup-
1
on they
agreed
to
carry
him publickly out of the City, and not by any
private
conveyance; the manner
was
this, they
fhaved
his head and his beard,
and wa–
fued his face, head, neck, hands and Arms, and from top to toe, and deanfi d
him with water, and then
f
meared him over with a fort of \ ild Fruit
1
called
by
the
Indians
Vitae,
which is not good to eat, or for any other purpofe
onely
dieS
with that black hue, chat being left
on
for three or fout day , and
afterwards
wa<hed over three or foar times more,
it
leaves a black deepet! than rhat ofan
E_thioyian,
and which
will
not be wa<hed off again with any water, untiH
it
be–
gms
to wear away, which
it
will
doe in ten
day~
time and rhen
will
wa!h
off
with the rine of that which gives the tineture :
In
this
m~nner
they
coloured this
w~etc~ A~uire,
and clothed him in poor habit, like a Councrey
Negroe
~
and
with
this d1fgu1fe they went out openly about nc:>on
day
through he pubJick fi reets and
Market-place, with the_
Nc&t'oe
Aguire
marching
before them
\Vith
a
Gun
on his
Shoulders, and one of
tire
Mailers carried another
before
him on the
P
met of
~
his Saddle, and the other had a
Hawk
0n
his
fill,
as
if
they
had
been oiog
after
the·r