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·.
Royal
Commentarier.
BooK
VII.
· the
Scouts
of
Bernand~~
GiroJt.,
and went
with
them to
N11nafoa,
where in private
they gave a
true account of the force which
che
Marfhal brought with him
and
that he was coming to feek them by the way of
Parihftanttcocha:
though in' pub-
·
lick, not to difcourage the People,
they
reported, that his force was weak and in–
confiderable
:
but
Francifao
Hernande~
difabufed
his people ,
and
told
them
the
truth: for, as
P'1.lentino
faith, he fpake to them in thefe words.
Gentlemen,
do
not flatter
or
deceive your felves, bur clinch your Fills clofe,
for
I aifure you, that you have a thoufand men coming againfl: you from
below
on
one fide, and
i
200
from above, which by the help of God, I efieem as n9thing,
for
let
me have but a hundred flout and valiant
friends~
who
will
flick
to me, and
I fball not doubt, but to defeat them all. And hereupon
having
prepared for his
departure ;
upon the eighth of
May
be left
Nafc11
and rnarche!d to
Lucane1
by way
of the mountain, with intent to
po!fe{s
himfelf of
Parin11-cocha,
before the Mar!hal
came
thither,
&c.
Thus far this Aµthour, Chapter
41.
.
•
Howfoever the
Maril1al
Alonfo
d~ Alv1tr~do
continuing
his
M~rch,
entered
Upon
the Defarts of
Pterih11ftnac()~ha,
where by reafon of the bad and craggy
ways
and
ternpeftuous
~
eather ,
or
the
unhealthfulnefs of the
Climate,
above fony of their
· heft Horfe dyed, tho gh they were led
by
hand, and
well
covered with Clothing.,
without any reafon given
for
the
fame; the Grooms faid, that
they
were taken with ·
a
fhormefs
of breath
li~
Horfes that are broken winded, at
which
all people
won-–
dered,
but
none knew the
r€-afon
;.onelythe
Indian.refteemed
it
ominous,
and
to
be
a forerunner of
ill
fuccefs.
Diego
Hernande~,
Chap.
42.
fpeaking of this paffage, faich
7
as follows. When the Marfhal was come unto
Chumbibj/c11,-5,
and had there provi–
ded hi
mfelf with
all
things neceffary for his
Camp~
he
adventured
to pafs the de–
farr
of
Parina.co~ha,
which is about
3
z.
leagues
over,
which was
fo
foll
of boggs and
morW1
places, fnow and rocky afperous paifages, and
fo
many broken
cliffi
and wa–
ter-galls,
that many Horfes
perifhed
in that
clefolarn
Land,
\vhich
feemed
.at
that
time to be a corner of Hell, where '\as nothing bur mifery and famic1e,
&c.
Thus
far this
Aurhour,
whofe
Aqthoricy
we have brought to confirm the truth of
\l\
hat
\\ e have before alledged.
The
Marfbal left Captain
SamhfJ
D11garie
in
Parih1uma.coch4
fick of a Flux or Dif–
fentery,
of which in a few days afterwards he
dyed:
the Army fiill proceeding
in
thejr
march
the Scouts happened to take one of the Scouts belonging to
Hcnumde~;
and to fave his life,
they
reported, that he voluntarily was coming co ferve his Ma–
jefiy ,
and from him the Mar!hal was informed , that
Frttncifco
Hernan~,
was not
above
twenty leagues difiant
from
that place; for which reafon he Ii,.ept his peo–
ple on the Watch, not to be furprized or
to
have their quarters beaten up in the
nighr. When the Army was about two days march from
Parihuanaccchlf,
a bold ac–
tion was performed by a certain
.Negro
which
alarum'd
the Army,
and
was this:
Captain
Diego
de
AlmendrM,
according
to
his ufual Cufl:ome, did ofren feparate
from
the
Army
to
!hoot wild Beafis, of which there were very many in thofe
De~
fares ;
and
being
in this manner one
day
upon the ramble, it was his fortune to
meet amid!l: thofe rocks with a
Negro
belonging
to Serjeant Major
Vil/4.vicmcio,
who had run away; and
whpm
AlmendrtU
would have bound, aod broughc back
to his Maller. The
Neger
fiood frill, as
if
he would have fubmitted; but
fo
foon
as
4 /mendrtU
came near him, thinking to bind
his
hands
wirh match> the
Negro
ftooped down, aod catched hold of the Ankles of his Leggs, and running
his
Head
againft his Breafi, threw him backwards;
an~
then
with
his own Dagger
and
word, he gave him
fo
many Wounds, that he left him
dead.
After which the
Negro
fled to the refi of his Kindred and Relatiorls who were with
H~rnandcz
5
and
h.avmg
r~cooQted
to
them this brave exploit,
by
which he made his efcape,
they
all rejoyced, and gloried in the action, every one bcmfiing of it, as
if
ic had been
done
by
himfel£ A young man ofmongrel race half
Sp1tni11rd
and half
Indian
being
with
AlmendrM,
and feeing his Maller on the groaod, and
ill
treated in that man–
ner, took the
Negro
by
the Shoulders to free his Maller from him ; but
A lnm1dras
be–
ing fepfible that
he
was morcal1y wounded, called to
the
youth to
fly
before he was
killed
by
the
Negro:
and ffich was the
Cry
and
Groans
he made, as
gave
an alla–
arum to all the
Army
:
he was afterwards carried to
P
4rih11a14a
to
be there cured .,
but
he dyed
in his
way
thither, fuch was the end of this poor Gentleman,
\~'ho
loft
,
his
Life
in hunting afcer another
man'
Negri)
5
the which unhappy accident both
!JJdian~
agd
Spamflrds
in
erpreted
as an
ill
omen of their future Succeifes. .
CH AP.