587 / 1070
BooK
11.
Royal Commentaries.
C H A P. XXVIII.
What Number of
Spaniards
the
Indians
might
kill zn the
ways
;
and 1vhat
fucceeded
at the Siege of
the
City
óf
los
Reyes.
S
O foon as Marquis
Pifarro
perceived thac the ·ufual correfpondence and incer~
courfe of Letters between him and his l3rother~ ceafed, be immediately
fuf–
pefüd forne mifchief in the way ; and to-prove and try the truth thereof, he ern~
ployed feveral
Indians,
who were Domefiick Servants to
Spaniards,.
to enquire of
cheir Kindred and Relations, and inform themfelves of the News of
Co:uo,
and
of ali rhe Tranfaétions of that Kingdom; for it was not without juíl: fufpicion of
rpifchief that the Ways and Avenues were ali fiopped. The
YanacunM
(
far
fo
they call the
Indian
Servants) enquiring into the matter, underijood that the
lnC'a
had rnade an lnfurreétion, and with a íl:rong Army was Maíl:er of
Co:w
;
bue as to
,
the Particulars thereof, they gave no other account to the Marquis, but onely in
a confufed rnanner, without 1-iead ar tail; howfoever, -he thought
fit
with all dili–
gence to write unto
Panama; Nicaragua, Mexico, añd.Santo Domingo,
defüing thac
Succours íhould be fenc with all fpeed. Upoq which paífage
Carate
hath thefe
Words:
.
.
"
" The Marquis feeing che Number of
lndi,ms
to increafe, and Multitudes of
" them ready to _Aífaulc the
City
of
los Reyes,
he gave it for granced that
Hernando
"
Pifarro,
and ali thofe of
Cow,
were periíhed ; and that chis Infurreél:ion ha<l
" been fo general over ali
Chili,
thac
Almagro
:¡nd all his Souldiers were defeated
"· ?nd deíl:royed: Howfoever, to undeceive che
In).ians
in their belief,, that the
'' Ships were detained on purpofe to rnake an .efcape, and ,rhat the
Sf.aniard1
alfo
" might defpair of other fafety th:m in their Arrns, he difpatched away che Ships
•• for
Panama
wirh Letters to rhe Vice·king
QÍ
New
Spain,
and to ali the Gover–
" noñrs of che
Jndies,
acquainting them with the dangers and difficulties in which
" they were engagéd, and .deíired Succours and Relief fro'U'l them,in ·that difücfs.
Thus
far
Carate,
1«
·
·Bue
beftdes thefe Difpatch~s, he wrote alfo by rnnveyanc~.of che fáiéhfoll
Yand–
rnnM,
to
Alonfo de·A/varado,
who was then el)')ployed in the.~ onqueíl: of the
Cha–
ch11p11JM,
and
to
Sebaftian de Be/alcayar,
who was then in
Peru,
the Affairs of borh
which fucceeded profperouíly. He wrote alfo
to
Garp!af[o de la Pega,
whofe Af–
f~irs on che other fide were not
fo
happy in the Conqueíl: of thac Coumrey, or
Province, which by contraries rhey called the
B11enfl Pentura,
or the Countrey of
CooáFortune, ,diere the five Rivers called
fl.uiximin
ernp(y,thernfelves into rhe
Sea, and are plentifull and rapid firearn~.
In
thefe parts matters did noc fucceed
ill
wich him, by reafon that be found little refifience from the Inhabirants, for
there wne few or none in ali rhat Countrey; onely the Moumains w.ere
fo
high,
barren and cragged, that it was fcarce inhabitable : of which, and of the difficul–
ties he fuílained in this E~pedition, we íhall difcourfe more at large hereafter. He
wrote
alfo
to
'/ohn ,P9rcef,
who was employed jn the Co.nqueíl: of the
Pacatnurm,
infianrly conjuring t~ern w¡rh ali fpeed to, come unto the City of
los
Reyei,
thac
being \mired ~ogether they might make the better tefiílence againíl rh'e
l ndim .
In
rhe rnr:an rime, not knowing to what difüefs his Brotfoers.rnight be reduced, he
wich ali diligence difP,atched away fevemy Horfe under the Commandof his Kinf..
m:inCaptain
·Diego Pifarro,
which was ali the force 'that he was able td fpare, wich
an Addition of thirty F90t-Souldiers, as
Carate
reports. ·
·
.
The
lndi1ms,
whofe oefign y.,as to deíl:roy che Marquis, and all'his people, un–
der.fianding by rh1iir Spies
1
that he was fending Succours co relieve his Brothers,
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changed
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