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BooK
II..
Royal
Commentaries.
objeél:, ,thac
,Almagro
rmade•a blind 'bargain, ánd did not well confider of che value
of the Ships, or perhaps was inforced to thac Engagement ; yec
Pir¡arro
returned
a foil anfwer chereunco, Thac a Gencleman m1ghc well
to
confider of his promife
before he gaveic; and not
to
·precend afcerwards thac he was fürprized, being by
che' rules of a Souldier; ancf ,of
a
Gentleman,. engaged
to
a performance of his
words. And an:the concrary·
.(1/varado
might have alledged, that in cafe they e–
íl:eemed t,bernfeJves agriewd, t:he.y needed ondy
t0
reíl:ore tµings
to
cheir former
fiare, in which .they were befor_e che agreem@nt,
a.ódkave-him then to make bis
beíl: a-dvancage:, Andas to th~ ~price 0f che Ships, wflich they fuppofed rnight
be over-,chargecl/ ,were che advantage duly (onfidered, which they broqght by ch~
fuccours and re<:ruits of
M.en;- Pforle;·Arims·a_nd Guns ; tl,ie reputation of which
brougiit a terrour on all·chac Empire, and reduced
it
·có fubjeétion, n@thihg coald
have been eíl:~(l.med CO(:) greac
to
bav,e .pfOGfilre&~hat affi11:ence, much J&fs whfü it'
,.vas obtained
at'
fó
fnia!L a
i:ané, Jas
tht:,b'are .fraighc did amounc unto."
In
fine;
Pir¡arro,
»-ho .was' noble and fmcere in his.,d~lings, r,eplietl .to thofe who gave him
cqmrnry adv:ice, .thac no coqfide'rarion
óLbene.Eror:pr@Íiíi could balance·.or {bnd
in competition·wich bis Faitb.:md.Honout:; anclt
fo·
wich tliis coníl:an~y and refo–
lution he rejeéted che low and '1egeneri,áte c6ud(els of rnean-fpiriced Men, and ap–
plied 'himfelfJ§lytec.eive and .tte·ac
AlvarV1do
witl¡¡-,
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eíl:eem;' kindñeÍS ana rilag-
nificence chat he was
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Di:riiral
;Don Pedr_o d~ Alvar-ado
·bei_ng grl.i~ly fatisfied wich _the kind.and oblr,
gmg treatment whICh
Don ifrancifco de,b ;arro
had lf}ade;hun, they took
theü:
leave and farewell eacb ·of other
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with.all r:he ·kind expreflions and complements
imaginable, offering n'mtual fuccours and affiíl:ences as .the aflairs and1emrergen–
des in which chey were now engaged, íhould :refpeétively
req1.üi-e. So
.71/varadJ .
recurned to his Governmént of
H11ahut.imallan,
where he repbfed not
lo.ng, or en–
joyed.the riches and profperity which he -had acquired ; bue being exalted wich
bis criumphs and bis good forcuM, which had ever atcended him rrom 'his Youch;
he próceederd tb higher A,;tions and Acchieveméncs, being reíl:lefs, amd defüous
of vain-glory, unt-ill he periíhed cherein,
?S
we
fhaU
find ~ereafcer: And .though
1
the fuccefs hereof doch not properly app!'lrtain: to this I:Iiftory ; yec coníídering
the unhappy and lamentable end .of chis famous Capcain, who had performed
fo
many brave Exploits in ·divers Countries, which che Renowned
'foh'n de Grijalvd
,
had difcovered, and in che Conqueíl: of che Empire of
Me:r:ico
in .compahy widí .
Hernando Corto,
and laíl:ly, .in tlie Provipce of
G11átimala,
or
f!uah11timaU11n,
which
he CO!)quered by his own Arrns, .and in other pares of New
Spai,tt :
Befides a.11
which~ we may add the Comqueíls which he made in
Peru,
for witlfout his aid
·and afliíl:ence tqat Empire could never have been fecured. Howfooier, h€ died,¡
as
Gomara
in the
z.
1
oth Chapcér of his Hiíl:ory of che
Jndin
réporcs, befides many
other particulars worrhy to be mencioned, which I have extra~ed
verbttt:im,
as
followeth :
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Pedro de A/varado
rernaining quiet, and peaceably fettlecl
in
bis Government
" of
Huahutimallan
and
Chiapa,
che lacter ·of which ,he exthanged with
.Francifao
"
M rmtejo
for his Dominion·0tche
Hondura.,'
obtained licence of che Emperour
to
" difcover and p!ant a Colony in
~itu,
which was one ofche Provirices of
Peru,
" and a Countrey which was rich, an.d notas yet poífeífed by che
Spaníárds.
On
· " this Advemure, in che year
1535,
he iármed ·and fet forth five Ships,
ÜJ)O!l
" which arid upon cwo others wfuich he fraighced in
Nicaragka,
he embarked five
~
hundred
Spaniards,
and many Horfes
$
che which being
lamled
_at
Puert()
ft;