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VIII.

Royal

Comme,itaries~

bue therewith fell foto fucha Sadnefs and Melancholly, a~ ' br~ke bis

Heart

a few days.

1017

We ~ave oµly now t~ relate the End 9f_Captain

lefartin GF.~cia Loyol;~

whom, m reward of havrng taken the

Inca

Pnfoner, and many other

Services

which _he performed to ~heCourt of

Sp11in;

they married

t9.

the

Infanta,

who

was Ntece ~o the_ laíl: Prmce, and _Daug_hter_to his Brother

Sayri Tupac:

whereby

he carne to mhent that Eítate which thts Prmtefs received from her,F~ther; and

for his greater Honour and Advancement, and better Service

c;,f

his Majefty, hé

was preferred to be• Governour, and Captain General of the Kingdom of

Chile,

w_here he hada greac par~y ,of Horfe, with a goocrforce o.f

Spanijh

lnfantry

under h1s Command. It was h1s Fortune to govern this .K.ingdom for feveral

years, and fome Mon~hs, ~ith gr~at Prudence and Difcretion, and to t.he.•coq–

tentment alfo and fausfaébon o( h1s Companions ; howfoever he was engaged in

tontinual Labours and Embroyls, ca~fed by the Wars which

\'{ere

w¡¡ged againft

the

Indians;

and which are not yet atan

end",

in this year ;16_~3, having

eve~

fio ce 1553, when the

Indians

began firft to rebel, .been conftantly carried on

withou.t Truce or lntermiilion during ali that time, ás we have intimated

before in feveral1Places.

hilft this Governour employed himfelf-in the ex:.

ercifes of W ::¡r, he went one day. (accorcl,ing to bis ufual cufrom) to viÍtt che fe–

veral Forts which were rai(t:d o_n the_Fronfiers, to curb the Enemy, and keep

them from making incurfions and depredauons on thofe

lndians,

who had fub~

mitted, an~ were become Serv~nts

the

Spania,ds

And having fupplyed ali

thºofe Gardfon.s wi~h Ammunuon and Proviíions, · he returnec.J

tó

thqfe Cities

within the Kingdom which were fetled and 1n peace : Ano being withouc the

Limies of the Enemies quarters (as indeed he was) and as 'he believed out of

d;rnger, he difmiffed

200

of hisSouldiers, (which were then of his Guard,) and

diípeeded themaw~y to their refpeétive quarters: Leaving himfelf only with a–

bout thirty Companions,amongft which were feveral Capcains, and old vete{ane

Souldiers, who had ferved m:my years in the Wars: And being come in~o a

very pleafant Plain, they pitched their Tents, intending tQ re¿,ofe an~ folacé

themfelves. that Nighc and feveral Nights· afcerwards,

that they. might re~

cover the Sleep they had loft, by their continua! watr;Jüngs ; for whiUl;

,.,

they vvere on the Frontiers, taking careto fecure the Garrifons, _they were

continualiy alJ.arm'd by the Eriemy,

that they had noí: time to Reft, Eat;

or Sleep._

The

:Arauc'os

and

indians

of other Provinces, Neighbouring on th~e who

had rebelled, ~nt their Spies by Nighc to difeover the condition of the

Spa–

niardf;

ánd íinding them without ~entinels, and in all fecuricy faft aíleep, a[.)d

as fafe as their Enemiescould defire, they whiftled to each other with Bird~Call{;

aad gave notice

fuch kind of barking and howlings which Giacalls or

y.¡

olves

ufc in the Night, which were_che fignalsagre~d uponamongft them._ At thefe

noifes great nuII]bers of

Indians

-carne flockmg together, and w1th all the

filence poffibie, went foftly to the

Spaniards

Tents, where finding them aíleep;

and in their Shirts in Bed, they cu.e the Throats of every one

them; an~

carrying away with them their Horfes, Arms, and all the Spoyl which belonged

the

Spaniards.

_ _

This was the end of the Governour

Ma,tin Glirc1a Loyola,

wh1ch was much

lamented over all the Kingdom

Chile

and

Peru ,

but as often as that Dif–

courfe was UJOVed, either amongft

17fdianr

Spaniards,

it was confefü:d,

tbaf

· • Providence had

ordered thbfe matters, that the de

ath of t

he late

Inca

fbould

in this mánner be revenged on the

Spaniards

by the

Han.ds

of his own Vaflal~.

And herein it was more plahlly evidenced by an Infatuation which poífefíed the

,Minds of fuch Captains, and Ve~erane s.ouldiers prafü(ed _io ~be Wars of

that Country, who knowing that they were' near an Enem1 mcenfed and

enraged'againft them, ._and thirfting after the Blood of the

Spa~~ards,

fhou!d

yet with

rnuch fecunty compofe themfelves to a 11eep from wh1ch they d1d

never afterwards awake.

This Governour

Martin Garcia Loyola

leí~

one Daugh~er, \,\'hi~h he had by;

his W ife the

Infanta,

Daughter _of the ~rm_ce

Don Diego ~ayn Tu;.ac,

the

which Oaughter was tranfported IOt0

sram,

and th~re lil~med

to -~

Gent~c~

man of Qyality, called

Don 'John Enriquez. de Barta.

H1s Cathohck •Ma¡e–

fty

belides the Ji;ftate which íhe inherited from her Father in

Per11,

was pleafed

o ó o o o

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