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ro revolc Unto

Almagro.

Hereupon che_Governour refolved imrnediacely to give

themBattel, wi!bing he had had the pówer of

rofhuah

to cornmand che Sun to

fiay his courfe.

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Herewich che word was given to rnarch direU!y againíl: che Squadrons of

Alma·

gro,

who upon thtir

füíl:

mocion ordered his Cannon to play upon che ~nemy, and

fiarcle them in the

fir{l-

onfet ; bue

Francifco

de Caravaj'al

obferving; thát if they

kepc a direét courfe upa,n che Enemy, chey íhould receive much qarnage frorri

rheir Cannon, which

Wi::ie

many, and very goqd; direlted cherh ariother

way

un–

der che coverc of a

Hill:

Bue havil1g paíled this ·íhelrer inco che open field,

fo·

thac chey remained éxpofed có che Enerny's Cannon,

Pedro de C:

andia,

who com~

mat.ided che Artillery, íhoc bver chern;

díat cµey

reeeived.no

darnage ;, ~hich

when

Almagro

faw and- obferved, he immediately fell upon

dro de

Candiit;

and

killed him wich his Lance upon che very Cannon ; and being foil of r4ge anq

an~er for chis piece of creachery~_ he leape9. (roi:n

b~s

Hqr(e,, a~1 i_n~unced on che

nofe of one of the Guns, and

wt~

che we1ght of h1s body 1ored 1t m füch ma:n-

, net, as to rnake' it beár on the

my ; and chen ordering che' Cannoniet

ive

fir€_

rhereunto, he placed bis thpt ,· rnidíl: che Squadron of

!'~

Caftro,

v,Jich,

raking rhem from che Frónt to die Rere, as

Cdrafe

confirms

che

18th

01apter

of his fourth Book' and

Gomara

in Chap.

>º·

bué do nbc fay hbw many

~ére

ílain-t'hereby, which were foventeen Men; which unlucky íhor, had ic

been

fol.

low@d by others with the like fucceís, they had needéd no other force, but

ha'<f

. focured che Vi'étor,i-a-ccording to the affurance wfikh

S11-dte:l

the Serjeant-Maior

had given; but .aÜ ·was loft by ·ch'ac ,treachery whiéh-

Pedro' de

Cándia

had at'l:ed:

For we muíl: know that Capta:rn·

Pedro,

having confidered that

Hetnando Piiilrfo,

who was ~he Perfon thac had affionted and injured him, was itnprifóned in'

Sp~in,

( as we have forrneHy mencioned,) at'ld that by reafon of _him rfre had fided

Wifü'

the parcy of

Chifi.

And that che Marquis, who by his Power a:nd Greaidefs

had much oppreífed him, was now d@ad, he judged himfelf fuffitiently reven~ecÍ

both of one, and'ofche other : And that now finte there was a new Gov~rnout;

was bis beft

cour[e

to recurn unto

che

Obedience and Service of bis Majeíl:'y,_

thát ne mighc noc ·ucterly fo[e al!' the hopes and rnerit he had accfuired by ,beir¡g'

ufefuU

in che Conqueíl: of chat Einpire.. And 9n irhis Motive' ir was, char he·_

·fent fecret intelligence co che Oovernour not to fear'the Cannon, for he would

order ic, that he íhould not need to apprehend any damage or hure from.thence:

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confidence of which promife che Govemóur refolved nbt to delay che Battel,

~hough

Pedro de

Candia

did not attain the end hi ddigned.

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