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706
Koyat
Commen'tar'.ír~s.
thiríl:y,
'to
a place where he might dri~k, -aBd having dra~k he laid himfelf 0own
in the Water, having one
Leg
of his Maíl:er under h1m, -and lay on that fide
.wl,iere che 'Nacer was deepeíl:-;
,PorrM
endea~oured to clear himfelf of
bis
Herfe
but could ,not, aAd
fo
lay íl:ill a while, untill che Horfe íl:ruggling to rife, and the
füeam running
f
wift upon him, he was at length drowned ; but the Horfe 1keep–
it;1g his head above.Water, made
a
íhif~ to keep himfelf
from
drowning, umill
fome Travellers paffing that way helpt h1m out;
bue
for
PorrM
they found him
dead, and buried' him on the ·Bank of che íl:ream. The whicth was eíleerned by
all che Kingdom
to
have be;n a Judgmenc oflHeaven for his irreverence towards
che Holy Alear,
as
w,e
have before mencioned.
·
We
rnay here cake nocice of the Divine Judgments againíl: fuch, who were
common Swearers-and Blafphemers of the Name of God in their ufual Converfa–
tion ;
w
ho noc concenced w
ith
little.peny Oachs, as Godsbodikins, or che lik-e, but
would fay, God Damn me, or, God renounce me: ·fuch rnen as chefe,
I
fay, have
been ol::!ferved
to
die by w.ounds
ir.r
cheir Mouths; and noc onely hath this happe–
ned in Battels in
Peru,
out in fingle Duels becween Man and Man, in which fuch
Blafphemers as ,thefe ·have been killed by íhoc of a Carbine in cheir Mouchs,
or the flroke of a Lanae, or a íl:abb of a Dagger in chac part. There is one
Iníl,ance .of chis very remarkable in rny time, which happened a year befare
I
carne from
Co:t-co,
and it was this ;
A
cercain Soukiier called
Aguirre,
an -ilkon–
dicioned fellow, hada quarrel with
7ohn
de Lira,
a perfon of afar different temper,
being naturally o_f
a
pea~eable and quiet ~ifpofüion ; chis
AgHirre,
to fighc wich
de
Lira,
armed h1mfelf w1th a Coat of Ma1l, Gamlet and Head-peace, and expec–
ted him near rhe Convent of St.
Dominick_,
as he paífed
to
his Lodging from the
greac Church, where, on a Friday in Lene, he wenc
to
hear a Sermon ;
fie
Lira
coming was mee and aífaulted by
Aguirre,
,md chey boch ílruggled togecher for the
fpace ,of
:m
hour by che.Clock, none coming in to part them, at lengch
rohn
de Li–
ra,
clofing in w.ich
Agi1irre,
íl:abb'd him in the Mouth wich his Dagger, which
' -catlbe out at che nape of his Neck, and
Aguirre,
wich a ílafh of his Sword ílroke
de
Lira
upon rhe Cloak which was fokded on his left Arrn, and cut eleven folds
of
it, and glancing along cuc offhis middle Finger
1
che Carne nighc
Aguim
died
of
his
wound in che Prifon, bue
f
ohn
de
Eira
recovered and was cured, in che Mona–
ílery of St.
Dominick.
where he
was
l@dged; and there l vifired him, and faw how
bis Fiager was cut off, and eleven folds his
C
loak cut thorough.
The like Judgment befell ocher notorious Blafphemers at the Battel of
SalinM
where two or three were wou-oded in che Mouch, and dyed, as many in
lik~
manner ar
ChupM,
as alfo four ac
Huarina,
one of which was called
Me:,:;,,q_uita,
and
ali
of chem incurred che fame face; wbich was fo apparenc a Judgmenc
a
pon com–
mon Swearers and Blafphemers, chat many repented of chat fin, and were converced,
and
fo
particularly did chis Judgmenc operare on the minds of che
Spaniards
in
Pe–
ru,
chat chey generally aoknowledge ic to have been a .merey of God towards
them, and fo abílain from thac fin, thac ic is a difparagemenc to any man co be
,guilcy thereof. And fo far hach chis cuíl:ome againft Blafphemy prevailed, as
to
pafs from
Peru
inco che Jurifdiél:ion of
Mexico,
where ic is accounced an infamous
crime for any man to fwear, efpecially Souldiers; fo thac when any one unadvi–
fedly fw_ears, the Capcains or Officers then prefenc, caufe him immediately
to
re–
call his Oach, and ask pardon for it, which indeed is a very laudable cuíl:ome and
rnuch
to
be commended in chofe Officers who were the occafion that the fame was
praél:ifed amongíl: the Souldie1y.
·
·
I
cannot cax any of my own ·Relations by the Mother fide with che fin of chis
nacure ; for to the contrary
I
have heard from one of my own Kindred, who (
as
I
btlieve) fpake imparcially of them, Thac in che fiare of cheir very Gencilifme
they knew not whac an Oath rneant, nor to cake che Name of God in vain, bue
as a thing (as natural
to
them as cheir m1lk) chey learned
to
pronounce che Name
ofGod on no other occafion than of Prayers and Praifes
to
him.
But whilíl:
Gonf_alo Pi9arro
was folemnizing che -Feíl:ival appointed in honour
to
bis new Ticle of Governour, he did not forget his dependence on
Spain;
and
therefore propofed firíl:
to
bis Captains and Friends in privare, and afcerwards
-p~blic~ly to ~he Cicizensrof
Los Reyes,
that it was neceífary
to
fen_d Mefiengers
co
bis
Maieíly
to
render an ace0unc of al! thac happened unto chac ume, befeeching
his Majeíl:y in behalf of that whole Empire
co
confer che Governmenc thereof
upon
Gonp1lo Pi;arro.,
reprefenting it
as a
matter rnuch conducing to the fervice 9f
his