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rage than good difcipline : for the Rebels having confidered the fituation of the
place, ordered and difpofed their Souldiers to the moft advantage ; It
was
80
plain
or
open Countrey where they were
to
fight, but amongft Bufhes and Trees and
great Rocks and Caves, by which the River
Amancay
paifes.
H~nande:t
his
'soul–
diers divided chemfelves into feveral parties and places covered and fheltered with
Trees and Buihes. The Marfhal,s men boldly and openly defcended from a
Hill
and being come within
Mufquet~fhot
, every one to fignalize hirnfelf the better'
t0ld his Condition, and
his
Name, who and what he was.
'
The Enfign of
John Ramon
named
Gonpt!o de Mata
came
fo
near the Enemy,
as
to
call
to
them, and cryed out aloud,
I
am
Mata,
I
am
Mata;
one of chafe who
lay clofe in the Bullies perceiving him _within
Mu~quet-fhot,
anfwered him,
I
am
a
Matadcr,
a
M atador,
or a Killer of
him;
and with that let fly at him, and lhot
him full in
the
Bre~ll:,
with which
~e
fell
dead to the grou_nd: tpe like happened
to others, of which many were killed and wounded, w1thout feeing wlio
hurt
them: And though the Madhal re-inforced the detachment with
frefh
Forces fo
that the Skirmi!h continued
unrill
three a clock
in
the afternoon, in
\.Yhich
ab~ve
forty principal per!0ns were · fed and wounded, yet no advantage was gained by
this Engagement : amongfr thefe a young Gentleman of about eighteen years of
age, called
Don Felipe EnrJque:t
had the misforcune to
be
{lai11,
and was much
la–
mehted
by
both Armies; and Captain
Ayrena~
was.wounded.
The
King's
party
having fuftained this lofs in the, Skirmifh, were not a little cooled in their courage
and abated in their mettle. During the Fight two Souldiers belonging to
Hernan–
de~
revolted co the Marfhal, one of which was called
Sancho de
Vayona :
and one
Souldier of the Mar!hats paffed over to
Hernandez
1
named
-de
Bilbao,
ofwhom
we have formerly made mention, and how he
declared,
that
wherefoever he
firft
faw
Hernande:t,
he would
fly
to
his Party.
The Skirmilh befug ended , and the Souldiers retired :
P
alentin(),
Chapter the
forty fou rth_, faith;
That
the Marilial entered into confultation with
Loren90
de
Al~na,
G"omez de A lV11rado, Diego Maldonado
,
Gomez de Solu
)
and other principal
perfons
in
the Camp;
to
whom he fignifyed
the
great deftte he had
to
engage the
Rebels, upon affurance
that
Bayuna
the Souldier (who was
ju!l:
then.
come over from
the Enemy) had given l;iim , that
for
certain they would never fiand
a
!hock,
but turn
their backs at
the
full:
charge:· but
Lorenfo de Aldana
and
Diego Maldona–
do
being of another opinion, took him afide, and perfuaded him to decline an
Engagement, and
to
have patience for
a
while: fince he had futh-Jlanifefi
ad–
vantages over the Rebels, both
in
men, and in the ground where they were
en–
camped: and moreover, all the
l1ldian1
and all that Countrey were difpofed to fa.
· vour and ferve him. As to che Rebels, they had no other refuge or fortification
than thofe Rocks and Woods ; in which being kept in by the
Jndian1,
and as
it
were befieged on all fides , they mull: in a fi1ort time be compelled by famine
to
one of chefe
two
things , either to abandon their faft places , and then they
will
either disband, or
f~parare
of chemfelves, or he ealily routed by us; or the
.greatell: part of them, will pafs over to us, without hazarding the life of any of
chofe Loyal Gentlemen \Jl\iho are engaged in this quarrel: all 1which will
eaftly
be
effeeted ,
by
fianrling
frill
without atti-On , and ondy keepiog
a
good watch and
ward
in
cafe the Enemy fhould make
an
attempt, and efpecially
upon
that hi§h
point ofLand which runs
out
upon the Rivfr, and which overfees both Camps;
which pafs
if
he could make
good,
he would be better fortified and fecured
dian
the Enemy.
In
thls advice and opinion moft of the principal Officers concurred:
onely
M lt'rtin
de Ro/Jle.r
{to whom the Mar01al had gtve-n the Company which be–
longed co
Diego
de A lmendrtU )
and fome few others were of a contrary opinion,
and infified much to give them battel; nowfoever
L orenf O
de
Aldana
was fo ear–
neft in the matter , that the Madhal promifed and gave him his word,
fhat
he
"ould not
fight~
And upon this refolution he difpatched
a
Meffenger away pre–
fencly to the
Camp
of the
J
ull:ices, to fend him
fome
fmall Field-pieces
with
a
recruit of Mufquetiers, to play \}_pon that point of the broken part of the Moun- ·
taia whkh the Enemy had po!fefied; for chat driving
th~m
ouc from thence, they
would either be forced
co
yield, or elfe to fight their way in open field. Thus
far
Palentino,
by which appears the
great
delire of the Madhal co engage the Rebels,
contrary to the opinion of
all
his Officers, and to the great and weighty reafons alle–
ged by them; which Council not being followed, occafioned the ruine and de·
fi ruction which
infued;
as will
fpeedily
appear
in
what follows.
CH AP.