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Bo.oK
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Commentaries.
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in which fad and diíinal place and condition they fuffered Miferies beyond ex–
preffion. Of all thefe chirreen brave Heroes
G~ara
makes mention'but of two
bnely ; I kn~w not, his reafon
for
it, or
w~~
~e omits to name t~e
oto.ereleven;.
but now
hhmk
on t,
I
have obferved that 1t
-1s
the common om1ffion and defeét:
of
Spanifh
Wricers, not to reckon particularly che Heroes of their Cbuncrey
by
,n:une, for chey oughc to declare their Names and Surnames, their Families, Coun–
tries and Parenta,ge, ch:it the mernory
9Í
fuch Perfons, famoils in their Generatiorl
'for che Conqueft of a new World,,may be conferved unto all Ages, and their
Families boaíl: in che honour of being allied to fuchAnceíl:ours. .
The
two whicH
Gom-ara
mentions are
Peter de Candia,
~wbo \,\:as nota
Spaniard
neifher, bue
a
Greek_;
a,nd
BArtholomew
R-uJ:t
de Moguer,
a
Native
of
Mogtter,
and
·Pilot in chis Naviga-
· '
tion
and Voyage. But
Carate
was more ac-rurate
in
his R.e1ation, for .befides the
tw.o
former
h~
names feven oth_e-rs,
vi~·.
Nicho/tu de Ribera;
'f
ohr( de la Torrt, Alonfa
l]rifenno,
aU Na¡ives of
Vmavente, Chrift-opher
de
Peralta,
.a
Nacive of
Baera; Alonjii.
de
Truxillo,
Franch
de'CueUar,
a NatiVeofCue//4, and
A/bnfa de Molina,
born at
Vlmla.
Befides which r~cice-d
01/
'this
Writer, ther-e was anotber
Ribera, ·
cornpa-
llion
to
the former, whofe Name
1
have fo~otten, perhaps it rnight bef
eronimo
or
Alonfo,
but
to
difünguiíh them one from the -otl:ier, they -!Jfually.calle~ them
BJbera
che
Senior,
aAd
Ribera
the
'/,mior;
not tha:t one was much 'efcfor than
tbe
other
in
Ytars, but
by
reafon oftbeir fen_iority in the Society with
Pir¡/1ri'o,
for one
ofthem was
in
che nurnber ofthe
firfr
Advenrurers which carne :froin
Panama,
and
the other was of che fecond or third Expedition, which carpe thente with
Alma-
gro;
all which particulars I leamed in my own Coantréy from chofe \Vho dif-,
courfed
.of
tho(e tirn~, ar;id were for -the moft par~.°?Ye-wicneIIe~ of d;e rn~ttér of
fal!l:;
,both whKh
RiberM
had their Shares and D1vilions of
Jndians
made to them
in
Ciudad Real,
where they
left
Sons and Daµghters, educatéd wich.a,11 Goodneís .
and Verme. He
whomCarate
calls
Alonfo Trii:,:i!lo,
was
'/ame1
1
for
l
was
well
ac-
quainted with hi~, anq ·lmow that he had Lands and Poífetftphs ·given
him'
in
Cozco.,
and that ·i.n the
Y
ear
1560.
when I deparced from that Cic'y,
.hé'
was frill
living. Moreover
Francú Rodriguu
of-
-Villa
Fume
near
Qo:úo,
was imotber ofché
thirteen, and one ofthe firíl: which paffed the Line, which, as we have faid;
Al-
magro
drew with the point of his Sword, and was living in the year abovefaid; -
oriely two are wanting of the thirteen, whofe Names wé know tiot. .And thus -
much we have .faid to illuíl:rate the Hiíl:ory of
Carate,
in honour to cbote Fami-
liés,
whoíe Off.fpring may well boafr to have been defcended from fuch famous,
Anceíl:ours. The like particulars I íhall mention in other paífages, where I find
that
Spanifh
Writers have been defeétive, that_
fo
the Reader may receive. et;1tiré
fatisfaétion in this Hiíl:ory,.
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