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BOOK
VII.
wore a Pad or Pannel to keep them from galling with the weight, and at
every
200.
paces they were relieved
by
a frelh Company.And here we
may
leave
the Reader to confider, with liow much troubL. and Jabour thefe poor
Jndi
11
,lls
carried thefe weighty Burdens over thofe Rocky and Mountainous ways which
are in
my
Country ; and over afcents., and deflects of three and four Leagues
long, and
fo
fteep, that many
Spaniard!.,
whom I have feen· travelling, have
for .eafe of their Horfes and Mules, alighted off from their backs., efpecially
at a defcent., which are maoy times
fo
fteep that a man cannot
fit
in his Saddle
but it will be
on
thG
horfe-neck; notwithftanding the Crupper., which
ofte~
breaks : and fuch kind of
way
as this we have
from
Q..uitu
to
Coz..co,
which
are
500
Leagues diftant; but from
Cor...co
to the
Charcas
the way is more
ptea–
fant, being
for
the moft part a plain Countrey. And heiepy we
may
underftand
that., what
Palentino
faith concerning the Artillery which
Felipe de
Mendof~
brought into the
Parade,
and fired feveral times, was rather to
rpeak
fine ·
things., as in a
nee., and to embellilh his Hiftory, than that
any
fuch thing
was really acte
put into practice ; as we have
faid before.
.
His Majefties
my
,marched· out, and encamped about a League from
the
City,,
where they contj.nue<l about five days to put
all~
things in a readinefs,
and make Provifions of every thing they ftood in need ; and until the
Indians
of
the neighbouring Places could. bring ia the Vittuals and Stores
they
had ga–
thered;
there was need of Horfe-Shoes and other Iron-works; and before the
one could
be
forged, and the othe.r got together, time
wasr,equired:
And this
certainly was
the
reafon that detained
the
Army fo
many
days;
and
not what
our
Author alledges., Chapter the
5oth.
in tnefe words,
The
Camp.,
faith he,
remained in
the
Salina.s
five or fix days, in expeCtation of
Indians
to carry the
Baggage; but they came not., but rather feveral of the19i fled to their own
Hornes; and becaufe
they
belonged to Planters, who haH their Eftates and
Lands
near
to
Coz..co,
it
was fufpeeted that
they
were fent away
by
order
of
their Mafters.
I am troubled co find this, and fuch like Paifages in the
Hiftory
of this Author, which
argues
fomekind 9f Paffion or
Pique
he had againft
the Inhabitants of
Coz..co,
whom he frequently blames
on all
QCcafions,
in
mat–
ters whereof
they
never were
guilty;
And indeed
it
were more reafonable to
l:>elieve, that thefe
Gitiz-ens,
and
Men
ofEftates~
llrould contribute all
they
were
abie
to
put an end
ro
this
War,
rather than to d(t
any
act which might be a
means to protract and hinder
the fiflal
determination of
it ;
nor
could
it
be
to the ad \tantage of the Cit izens , co be acceefory
to
any Act (fuch as
fending
-away
the
Indians)
which might -0ccafion the
fray
of the Army
in
parts fo near the
City~
from which they could not expect other tban troubles,
perpetual moleftations., and damages to their Eftates, during all the time of
their quarters in that place. And moreover this Author feems to contraditt
himfeff
1
in
faying,
that the
Army
was detained in
expettation
of
Indians
to
car
y
their Baggage., and for want of them they
could not proceeed;
and then
~ f t
r
ards
1
he faith., that: many of them fled away, and
yet the
Army raifed
1
.eir Camp, snd
departed
thout them : But the truth
<>f
what
pafled
in
hi
particular,
was thi ; That,
by--order
of the
Gener~l,
ma
of the
Indians
wt10
were~ppoiotetl
to carry Burdens weredifmift.,
by
reafon
t
at
the
way af–
erwards being
plain
and
without
Rocks., or Mountains, or hollow Cavities,
they ftood
not in need of the Service of fo many
Indians
as formerly, and
berefore difcharged feveral
of
them as ufelefs and cumberfom
to the
Camp•
In fine, the
Army,
after five days
fray,
departed from their Q!larters near the
ity~
and
marcb
in good Order, and always
fa
a readinefs to
engage
the
'\:."" n-emy,
in cafe
they
fhould be
attacked
by
them
in
any of thofe narrow paffa-
0
which are between the
City
and
f2!!..equefana
:
But the Rebels
d another
ame to
Ela).,
fuffering them to
pafs
quiecly
and undifturbed, until
they
came
to the P ple callerl
P11carA,
about forty Leagues diftant from
Coz..co.,
only they
•
fou
r emfel ves fomething dill:reff d for want of Pravifions, becaufe the
Negers,
who were Souldiers to the Rebels., having divided themfelves into
two bands on both fides of the Road, had droven all the Cattel
away,
and
t aken aU the Prov ·fions with them that
they could find, leaving nothing
behind for fobfiftance of his Maj
fries Army.
And now the Scouts of
both
the
part k s
met each with the other., and yet no Skirmifhes., or Encoun–
t
r
paffi d
betweefl
t
em ;
only the Juftices received Intelligence, that the
-
Rebels
.
.