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BooK

IV.

Royal

Commentaries.

Gonfalo ~ifarro?

h~ving ¡ec~ived advite of t~e defe

at of hi

s Capcains, ~nd chat

the Vice-kmg daily mcreafed m.numbers of h1s rnen,

and.íl

:reogchened m Arms

Ammuniticin for War, concludéd ic neceífaty w

ith ali p

offible fpeeq'- to de–

íhoy bis Forces, before greater ais! carne

him from

Spain

and ocher pares of

che

Indie;,

which would be landed at

Tumpi:t

orar che Porcs chereaboucs, towards which .

places che Vice-king was drawing h_is Forces; ~nd in che mea:° cim~ he endeavou–

red co intercept all Paekets ef-A-dvice from

Spam;

and from h1s-Ma¡efiy, che want .

of which would greatly difcourage che minds of che é

nemy: w

ith chis refolution,

he prepared ~11 things for a.Batee!, on the fücce~ of 'l

;Vhich.he

~ncended co ha~rd

bis fortune

111

ca[e

che enemy. would fiand co

1t;

nd accord

mgly Orden; were

iífued out

che Capcains, che Souldiers received cheir pay, che Horfe were com~

manded

rnarch before to

Tru.·úllo,

and

fifarro

himfelf ,yich che c,hief of.his

Commanders re¡n:iíned behind to bring up the Rere.

Abouc this citbe a Brig:müne from

Arequepa

rived in che

I>ort of

Lima,

which

brouohc an Liundred chou\and pieces of Eighc for

acrnunc.of

Pifarro:

ar che fame

time

alfo cai't.e in anocher Sbip from che Co11tin

enc, belongi

ng to

Gonfalo Marte!,

and which broughc bis Wife, Cbildren and Fam~ly co be chence conveyed co

Co:tco

where bis habit.1cion was. This happy accidenc

encouraged

Pifam

and his

Parcy, rhac chey grew very high and infolenc thereupon, and, as if forcune had

been on chtir ftde, chey believed che whole ,vorld was their own. ·Thus far

Au–

gufrinc de C;r,.,1te,

ro which

Diego Fernande"-

adds, rhat they became

proud, and

made fuch \'ain boaíl:ings, char fome talked as if

Gonfdlo Pifarro

was

cake upon

him che Tide and Crown of a King; arguing in nis favour, chac all Kings and

Governours cook cheir original and beginning by force ; chac che Nobilicy of che

world defcended from che haughry and unjuíl:

Cain,

and che poor and meek from

Abcl:

thac ir plainly appeared in hleraldry which blazes che Efcurcheons of great

men that cheir Arms concain notbing bue Weapons ofWar and Tyranny.

Fran–

cifco de Carvajal_

was much of chis opi~ion, an~ in confirm~cion hereof, he defrred

that the Old Teíl:ament fhould be rev1ewed, and che laíl: W11! of

Adam

chere conful–

ted, wherher cherein he bequeached ché K'ingdom of

Peru

Charle;

che Emperour

orto che Kings of

Caftile.

All which

Gonfalo Pifarro

héarkned unto wich much

fatisfafüon, beiog pleafed to hear che flarceries of his Abeccors. Thefe are che

words of

DiegoFernande:t,

which

have excraéted

verbatim

out of che chircy fourch

Chapcer of his firfl Book.

. On che Veffels which lacely caine into

Lima Gonfalo Pifam

láded greac quancícies

of Arms and Amrnunition, and thereon fhipped an hundred and fifcy feleét Soul–

diers. And

gi,·e che bme_r countenance and auchority to his Affairs, he car-

1ied Dotlour

Ccped.i,

one of the Judges, with him, as alfo

'/ohn de Cacem

che Ac–

councam General,

thac by che deparcure of

Cepeda

che Court of Juíl:ice was dif–

folved, chere remaining no ocher Judge ac

Lo;

Reyn

befides

Cepeda

;

and farther

µrevene che coming forch of ocher Orders or Warrams,

Pifarro

carried che Roy–

al Sea! wich him. And bec;aufe che City of

Los

Reye;

was a place of greac impor–

cance co hi:n, he chcught

fit

confide ic in che hands of fome fairhfull perfon,

"·hom he could cruíl:, and accordingly made choice of one

Lor,enfo de Ald1tna,

,d10m

he deleg:.itéd the Govemmenc of che City, being a prudenr, wi[e and dif–

crect Gentleman, and one who was very rich, having a great Efiace and incereíl:

Areq,,epa,

\\'ith whom he lefc eight hundred men for guard and fafety of che Ci–

cy; and

Pifarro

\\'ene atrended wich

all

che 'Inhabitants of che Cicy, and Gentle–

men who haJ anv command over che

Jndians,

and.cook' fhipping in che monch_ of

M:1rch

1545,

and failed

Port

Santa,

which is abouc fifteen leagues

from ·Tru–

xillo,

where

landed and remained' fome days untill bis ocher Forces could come.

up, becauíe it was a tin1e of che year when the paflurage was green and well

gro·,n1;

bue leíl: he _fhould opprels and ~urchen ch~

Spaniards

by bis Ion~ abode

there, he removed hts Camp to che Provmce of

Colbque,

where he remamed for

fome time, umill his Forces could come up

hirn'; and chen making a general

Mufler of bis Men, ic appeared on the Mufier-rolls thac his numbers amounted

umu more than fix hundred men, Horfe and Fooc: and chough che Vke-king –

was equal in number, yer

Pifarro

had much che advancage both in his Arrns and

· preparations for War, and in his Men, who were for che mofr pare vecerane Soul–

diers, crained up to War, lud been in many Baccels, and feen much of Aétion;

and beíides, they lmew the Countrey and che difficulc paífages of ir, and were

accuílomed

the dangers and Iabours ofWar, and had been prafüfetl"rh'eréin

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ever