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ney from thence ; die like they did to parcicular mens houfes , which they facked
and plundered , not leaving
any
thing of value therein. And
it
happening that
a
cert~in
Souldier came
at
chac time from
Rim'!c,
be~g
banifhed
rhence,
they
cau–
fed him co report, that
Hernandez,
was marching
w1tn
a
very
!hong
Army
co
Los
Reyes
,
and that all the Kingdom had declared for him , and that the
J
uftice
San–
tillan
himfelf, with many of his Friends and Relations were palfed over to that
party; beftdes a multitude of ocher Lyes which they caufed him to reporc
which
ferved thefe poor Rafc:i1s
for
the prefeor, and puffed
them
up
as full
of
vanity as
if
they had been truths, and made them to conGder themfelves no leLS
than as Lords and Mafiers of all
Peru,
and when this Souldier declared his in–
tention to follow
Hernande-z:,
,
they all became of the fame mind , and prefemly
ptoceeded to join with
him.
The Governour they carrie<l with them in Chains, and eight or nine Citizens '
and men of Efiates befides , wich Collarg of Iron abouc their Necks, afcer the
manner of
Gally-flaves.
In
this manner they travelled above
fifty
Leagues
wich
all the boldnefs and infolence imaginable , umill they came .to
Caffemarca
;
where
they met with two
Spaniards
who lived by their labour and honefi dealings, and
from them
they
received true information of the ftate and condition of
Hernandez:,
Giron,
and how he fled, and was purfued by the
J
uftices; and that it was credi–
bly
believed that at that very time he was defeated and killed. With this News
Fr11tncifco de
Silva
and his Companions were extremely dallied and confounded
and began to bewail their follies; and, to fave themfelves, they defigned to fur:
prize fame Ship,
if
it
were poffible, to make their efcape. The Govemour
and his Companions were now freed of their Chains and
fee at
Liberty,
but
ex–
tremely incommoded. And the Rebels, being about
fifty
in
number, divided
themfelves into little parties of about three or four in company to pafs more free–
ly
without
any notice raken
of
them.
The Governour finding himfolf at Liberty, fommoned people
in
the
King's
hame and
co0k
fome of them, whom he hanged and quartered. And the·Jufii..
ces being
informed
of the Outrages committed by thefe Villains,
f
ent a Judge
called
Bemardino Romani
with Commiffion to punHh the Offenders; who in pur–
fuance thereof cook and hanged almofl: all of them, and the remainder he fent to
· the Gallies, buc
Francifco de Silva
and
his
Companions, efcaped co
Truxillo,
where
they entred
into
the Convent
of Sr.
Francu
,
and there
dif
guifing tbemfelves in
Jhat habit, they travailed to the Sea-coafi, where they embarked on a Ship
which
rranfported.tbem out of the Empire, and .fa faved their livest·
In thofe days came fad and lamentable News from the' Kingdom of
Chile
brought
by a Citizen of St.
{ago
called
Ga/par
Otenfe,
giving
an account, how that
rhe
A–
raucan Indians
of that Kingdom had made an Infurreetion, and had killed the Go–
v~rnour
Pedro
de 'f'4/divia
and his People, of which we have rendred a large relati–
on in the feventh Book of the firft part of thefe Commentaries. This difiurbacce
amongfr the
Indians
was of great confequence co all
Per1t:
for
it
began towards the
'end of the year
1 )
53 ,
and hath continued to the end of this, being
1
61
1,
ia
which
v.veare
now
writing
thefe matters , and yet the War
is
not at an end ; but
the
Indian.r
are more proud, and fiand more on their terms, than at
fuft,
being en–
couraged
by
the many Vicrories they obtained, and the Cities they defrroyed;
God in his Mercy put
a
good end hereunto,
as
is
mofl: for his Glory. Perhaps
in
the
following Book, we may touch upon fome later allions of the
Ar1tucam.
CH AP.
XI.
Of
Jome
unhappy
Mi5fortunes
whuh
befell hoth
Ar111ies.
The
death
of
Nunno Mendiola,
a
Captain
belonging to
Francif
co Hernandez,
and
alfo
of
Lope
Martin,
a Cap-–
t
ain in his Maje
fly,
s Anny.
B
UT to return to the Affairs of
Peru
;
We fay, that
Her11Andn:,
GirO#
being
departed from
Pach~camac,
marchecJ with great care and vigilance, keeping his
baggage clofe to him, and
always
ready, and
in
a pofiure co repulfe
the.Enemy,
in
cafe