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Commentarie1.
BooK
III.
t
HA
P.
XVII.
The Relaiion of the cruel Battel
of
Chupas ·
u
continu'ed.
A
difagreement amongjl the
º
People
of
Almagro.
The
VifJory
of
the
Governour;
and the Flight
of
Almagro.
T
HE Serjeanc-Major, and the other Captains of his Majeíl:y, obferving
what
.
a Lane was made through their Squadron by the Enemy's fhoc, and that their
Foot was daunted therewich, the}'. prefencly clapt within the void place? and cau–
fed their ranks to cloíe up, and w1chout íl:op or any delay to make up direétly up–
on the Enemy ; and to have no caufe of retardment, they left and deíerced all
their own train of Artillery. The Capta:ins of
Almagro
not well confidering their
éaíe and advancage, and as people riot much uíed to fuch kind of emergencies ;
obferving the Enerny to advance upon them, cried out with a loud voice,
Let
not
~llr Enemies gdfn honour by our cowardife, they fee m ftand fti/J
M
not daring to oppofe them :
Let
m
to them, /et
m
to them
,
for we are not able longer to endure this ajfront,
Here–
with they forced
Almagro
to advance wich his Squadron, and wich fo lictle confi–
deration, thac they made him to interpofe between the Enemy and his own Can–
rioñ,; which when Serjeant·Major
Suam.,
obíerved, he went to
Almagro,
and wich
á
lóud voice tóld him, faying,
Sir, hadJou k!pt rhe order which
I
direflcd, and hadfol–
lowed
my
coUJJfal, you had bun viflorio,u; but f,nce you tale!;our mell[11res from others,;011
wi/L lofa the hono11r
uf
thi4 day
;
and flnce your l,orájhip
ú
not p!eafed to mak! me
a
Conque–
rour inyour Camp,
l
wi/1 mak! my way to ir
en
the[,de ofyour Enernies,
Anc.l having re–
peated thefe words, he
f
et Spur~
to
his Horíe, and paífed over to
r,aca de Caftro,
advifing him immediately to clofe wich che Enemy, and
to
give them no time, for
thac there was greac diforder aoq confufion in their Counfe!s.
Vaca de Caftro
obferving chis good advice which
S11am:.,
had given him, com_.
manded his Forces to march 9iréétly up in face of che Enemy , with which,
Francifco de Carvajal
was fo encouraged, and aífured of viétory, by reafon of the
urakilfulnefs oftheir Foes, thac he tfüew offhis Coac ofMale, and his Head-piece,
and caíl: them on the ground, telling his Souldiers,
That thry jhould not /Je affrighted
4t
the Cannon
;
for ,hat
if
he who wtU as fat and /Jig
tU
a~
two of them, was not fearfull of
them, much
lefs
ought any of them who ~ere but ha!/ the mark, that he
w,u,
,
At this time acertain Gentleman who was of Noble Bloud, and rode wich che
Horíe, obferving hoch íides within Muíquer-íhoc, and chat there was no ocher re–
medy bue thac he muíl: engage ; he on a fudden paífed forth from che Squadron of ,
the Governour, and faid,
Sirs,
1
declare my felf for the parry of
Chili,
for
a/1
the
World l_nows, that at the Battel of
Salinas /
was then en the
Ji.deof
Almagro
the Elder;
,
itnd f,nce
1
cannot now be for them, there
ú
no reafon but that
I
fho11/d ftand n111ter, and
Hot be againft them.
Herewich he fallied out of his rank, and feparaced liirnfelf ac
forne diíl:ance, where a certain Prieíl: remained called
Remando de LurJ_1te,
who was
a Kiníman to that School-maíler of
Panama,
that was che Cornpanion and Aífo–
ciare of
Alm11gro
and
Pifarro.
With chis Prieíl: there was another Gemleman..al–
fo,
who being íick, was excufed from the Fight ; but the recreat of this Gentle–
ma'n was interprered by ali che Army to be an effeét of down-right co~:irdife
and rhat cherefore he duríl: noc engage on either fide. The Harquebufiers of
e/
ft_ro
de
Tiaca
would have fired upan him , but the halle chey were in prevenced
their intemion; and when chey underíl:ood the reafon for which he defired to
íland a Neuter, they then were willing to [pare their fhot. I had once an ac–
quaincance wich him, and !efe him alive in a certain City of
Per11,
when I departed
thence ; and I know and remember well his Name, though I think
fit
to
conceal
it in chis p)ace, and onely recounc che faét in general to the end, thar füch a piece
of coward1íe may be haced and [comed by ali Perfons of Q!alicy and Wonby
Souldiers.
fo