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VII.
Royal Commentaries.
. upon the rout they had releafed him
5
but this piece of Treachery did not
pafs
an–
punHhed: for fome few days afterwards, when
Perale.r
was
at
Cozco
with
the
Lieutenant General
Diego
de
Alvarado,
Hernande~
was informed that
Perales
made
his
braggs
and
boafted that he had killed him ; whereupon
Her1Mnde~
wrote to
his
Lieutenant co hanghim, which he accordingly performed, for
I
my felf
faw
him
hanging on the Gallows
in
that City.
Bue
to return again to the Batte!;
Piedra–
hita
obferving the fear and confufion which was
in
the Mar!hars Camp, fallied
out of his Fore
with
about
fifcy
men , crying out and fingiµg, Vietory, Vietory,
and firing
as
they
went wherefoever they
f~w
twenty or tliirty in a company
to–
gether;
all
which yielded themfelves with their Arms and Powder, being that
which they mofi needed ; and in
this
manner
they
made Prifoners of above three
hundred men whom they carried with them, and who durll: not depart from
them or leave them , left they iliould
fall
into aoocher Parties hand, who would
treat them worfe than thofe of
Piedrahita,s
men to whom they had yielded them–
fel
ves Prifoners.
CH AP. XVIII.
Francifco Hernandez
gains the Vi5lor1.
The Marjhal and
his Souldiers are
put to flight. The
lndians
1<_ia
1nany
of
thent on
the
way.
W
H E N
the Marilial
Alvarado
fa
w that many
of
his
Souldiers declined
the
Fight,
and
would not pafs the River
7
he in perfon led the way,
in
hopes
to animate them to follow
his
Example: but
all
I;iis Cries and Calls and Perfuafi–
ons could avail nothing; for they all fled before
Piedrahita,
who was now
in
hot
purfuit of chem. Wherefore fome of the Marilial,s Friends told him, that it was
in vain
to
endeavour to fiop the
flight
of his Souldiers,
b~ing
purfued by the E–
nemy ;
for
chat it was never known that ever any .Army rallied again or fiopped
their
courfe who had once turned their backs to the Em;my, unleiS fome new
fuccour appeared , or fome Change accident offered
it
felf for their encourage–
ment.
This being faid, the Marllial lhifted for
himfelf
and as many as could followed
him , and the rell: were fcattered in divers parts where they thought they could
befi have refuge:
fame whereof went to
A requepa,
fome to the
Char~M,
others
to the new Plantation, and
Huamanca,
and
others travelled along the Coafr to
j0in
\~' ith
his Majefiy's Army under command of the Jufiices: fome few,
note~ceeding feven Souldiers, returned
co
Co:vco,
of whom we
will
give fome relation
hereafter.
On
the way, which was
far
and long, which thofe who fled from the
Enemy
were to
pa~,
the
Indians
killed many of the
Sp.:miat dr.,
for they having no of–
feofive Arms wich them , were expofed to the mercy of all they met. Amongfl:
thofe who were thus killed,
was
the Son of
Don
Pedro de
Alvarado,
who was
a
perfon of great quality, of whom we have given a relation formerly, and that he
brought eight hunqred men with him into
Peru :-
this Gentleman was named
D on
Diego
de
Alvarado,
a
Son worthy off
uch a
Father ; and his untimely and
anforcu–
nate death was much lamented by
all
thofe who had
any
acquaintance with
his
Father
:
That which induced the
Indians
to adventure upon this infolence and cru–
elty, was a Command given by
the
Officers of the Marihal's Forces,
(I
fl1aH
mention no man's name particularly ) who fanfying to themfelves an affarance
of vietory, in confidence thereof gave Orders to the
Indians
td
kill all
chofe whom
they fhould meet wandering and flying out
of
the battel; not expeeting that
this
Command iliould
fall
on themfelves, but on the Jiebels onely whom they inten–
ded totally to defiroy : but
it
had
a
contrary effeet, and eighty of them were
maffacred by the
J11di an.r.
The nwnber of thofe killed in the Batcel and in the
firfi day's Skirmifh was above an hundred
and twenty, and (
as
P11/entino
faith )
Eeee.ee2.
two