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BOOK
VII.
Royal
Conuizentaries.
the R ebels
broke
it
fo
foon
as they heard t 1at·ma ny of
Gomez.. de Soli.r
hi M n
were fled., aad the refl: refufed to fight, upon
w r~ i ch
they wer
fo
encouraged.,
that they attempted the Wall and Barracadoe which was made. When
Gomez..
de Solu
1
and other Men of Efi:ates, who were with
him,
p rceived
th4t
their
Men would not fight, t hey fled, an.d
m~de
their efcape
in
the
befl: manner they
could,
leaving
Piedl"ahita
in
poili
Ilion
of
all
the
Riches and Wealth they had
gathered, with which the Enemy returned
fuUy
laden and fuccefsful to their
Captain General
Francifco Hernandez..:
And though
in
the return, above twen–
ty of thofe Souldiers formerly belonging to the Madhal, which
Piedrahita
car–
ried with him., fled away and
left
him, yet he
C_?Ufidered
them as nothing, being
forced Men., nor valuable in refpect
of
that
immenfe
booty
and fpoils which
they had taken, in
Gold,
Silver, Jewels, Arms.,
and
Horfes.
Hernandez..
(whom
we left in the Fortrefs,
where
he fought
the Batte! of
Chuquinca)
having
remained
there
a
Mon th and a half, for the
fak~
of
the
wounded Men; marched aftenyards in the beft manner he
could
to the Valley
of
Antahuailla,
being highly incenfed againft
the
Indians
o{ the
Charcas
for
daring to
fight
againft him a't the Battel of
Chuquinca,
where
they
killed
fe–
veral of his Souldiers
with
Stones
and
Slings; wherefore being come
into
thofe
Prov-inces, he gave
orders
to
his
Souldiers.,
as
well N egers as White-men, to
plunder
~he
People,
and burn their
Houfes,
and to
do
th
all the mine and
·' mifchief they were able.
From
Antahuailla H ernandez..
fent for bis W
ift .,
and
for the Wife of
Thomas
Vaz.,que~,
for
whom
the
SouJdiers
made
a Solemn Re–
ception., and
were fo.
foolifh
~nd
impudent
a~
to ftile
.f-:!ernandez..
his Wife
Queen of
Peru.
Havrng
re~arned
a few
days
10
the Provmce of
AnttthJJail!a
and
there vented
their Anger
anQ_Spleen
againft
the Indians, they
marched
·
cowards
Coz..co,
and
having
intelligence
that the Kings Fore s were coming
after
them,
they
paff~d
the two Rivers
of
Amancay
and
Apr-trimttc
;
which
Hernan–
dez:.
furveying., and obferving the many
difficult
pa£rages which
were
there, and
places
fo
naturally ftrong., as might eafily be
defended
againft any Army which
fhould
affauh
him
therein; he would
often
fay.,
That in cafe he had
not
fent
away his
Major General
Piedrahita
with
his
choice Men, he would
have
ftay'd
and given the
J
uftices Batte!
in
fome of thofe
ftrong
and difficult paffes:
Wbileft
Hernandez..
marched
in
this
manner,
fix
Souldiers
of note, which
for–
merly belonged to the Marlhal, adventured to run away in fight of the whole
A rmy., with their
Horfes~
Arms, and other Conveniences. Nor would
Her–
nandez..
fuffer them to be purfued ; for fince they were no more than fix in all,
1he
was contented to let them go, rather than to adventure others to fetch
them
. back., left
they alfo
iliould follow
their
exa
rnple.
T hofe
fix Souldiers being
come
to his Majefties Camp
informed
them.,
How
that
Hernandez..
was march–
ing
to
Co~co.,
with intention
to proceed to
the
Collao.
Upon which intelli–
gence the Juftices
gave
order to the Army to march with all
expedition~
and
yet
with
fuch
due caution and circumfpeClion as was
requifite,
though
by
rea–
fon of the many
animoftties
and differeoc s which arofe amongft the principal
O fficers, the
progrefs
of matters was much
obftrulted,
and his Majefties Ser-
vic prejudiced and
delay'd.
·
CH A.
P.
XXII.
Francifco Hernandez
dares not
to
·adventure
into ·
Cozco ;
he carries his Wife with
hinl
from thence.
F
Rancrfco Hernandez..
palfcd
all
his Army over
the
River
Apurimac
by
way of
t he
Bridge,
to guard
which~
he lefc one
Valderravano
with a Party
of
tw
nty
Souldiers ;
but
not confi.dtag in the Honefty or Conduet of the Man, he
fent two days
C}ften~ards 7o~n
Gavtlan
to
take
that
Charge,
and
ordered
/7'al–
derr11.vano
to follow
h1m
to lus H ad-quarters.
'John Gavilan
having the Guard
.
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