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The

Tranflator

··w

the

R

eader.

perour had gi·ven to his Brother the Marr¡uiJ

Pi<;arro,

and in defence there;

of, ami in o¿pojit-ion to the new Laws befare mentione,l, he

i4iféd

Wars

•ggainfl the Juflices and the Vice-king.

Blafco Nunnez,

-;Jh

,

a/ter; fevé.·

r-al Fig,hts and Skirmijhes he killed

in

Battel-.

And thoug,h this

P1~arro

was afterwards faMued /Jy the wife co11duEI of the PrejideNt

Pedro de

la

Gafoa·:,

yet thing,s did no.t continue long ruiet 6efore_ they /Jroke out 'l$,ai11

into new diflur/Jances.

So

Don Sebafüan de Cafülla

.made a fi_e.'1eilio11

and

headed the Male-conte_nts, who /Jeing difappointed of th.e rewaNI they

e-xpeéied for the fervices they had done againfl

Gc;>nfalo Pi!iarro, .

endea–

vo111:ed to right themfelves /Jy their. own Power, and ki!led the General

Dt>n

Pedro de Hinojofa.

í-hen

Vafoo de Godinez

ki!üd

Don Sebafüarí

de Cafülla,

and

Jet

up

for himfetf, /Jut .was.foon {uMued, and put to death

ly

Alonfo de Alvarado.

Then

Egas de Guzman,

a /Jold and Uoudy

p¡¡.

lain pretended to /Je the Head of a Party, /Jut he and his Complices were

foon ,d_ifperfed fo¿ want

óf

.AjJociates to a/Jet their Caufe.

Andlaflly,

Fra.n·

ciícoiHernandez.Giron,

with a6011t twelve _or thirteen more began a Re·

/;el/ion in

Cozco,

aM

with that

Jma/J

num/Jer ki!led mofl of the Magiflrates

·of the City, and pu.t

mpfl

of the /11hahitants tq flight; with whom after–

wards many difcontent-ed Souldiers joining, they carr1ed on a War againfl

the Government far Jeverályears with much Uoud, and cruelties aéled upon

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each-otha; for now the common Sottldiers were hecome fo mutinous, for

want

of

employment, that they were ready to join with any perfon that

pretended to a refentment

;

And indeed there wa_s not an ordinary Fe/lov.J

bNt who had

fo

g,reat a vab,e for himfelf on the hoHottr of /Jeing

a

Spclniard

anil a Souldier, that he fwallowed in his vain thoughts a!J the Riches o/ the

Indies ,

andfanjied that the whole Go-vernment an.d Wealth of

P(;ru

was

not afaf}icient Reward for a perfon of his high Merit am{lfrtraElion.

In

t'hiJ,

manner

waJ

Peru

éom¡ueret/, and with thiJ fort of Peofle.hath it hen

'/inte

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that time planted, which we have reafon to helieve have 6urietl

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t-J;e_thfelves infloth and luxury. How we!I they ha'Ve improvedthat Cou11trey

and ufed thofe Riches which God hath given them, a11d how

huma.ne/y

they

ha'Ve treated the poor Natives;

I

lea'Ve to the Hiflorians

of our mo

dern

times-: andfor the P'alour and Bra'Very which o[ late years they haw ufed

in defence of that Countrey;

I

refer my felf to the Relation of the

Buca._v

niers.

4nd

fo

proceed on witl, thiJ Hijlory.

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