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Royal
Commentariet.
BooK
IV.
CH .A P.-
XXIX. ·
Carvajal
continues his pwfuit after
Diego Centeno. .
A
/frange piece of Cruelty committed
hy
him upon a Souldier,
and a trick._ which another plaid upon him.
S
O
foon
as
it
was day
Carvajal
purfued the Enerny wirh his Fooc drawn up
m
form of Battel, the Horfe advancing before to fall on them in che Rere : but
Diego Cent~no
made his retreat good, and tbe night following, and for three or four
nights fol!owing he concinually alarrn'd
Carvajal,
in expeétation cbac fome parries
would fall offfrom che Enemy ancl revolt unto him ; bue finding his hopes decei–
ved in that poinc, he got his Forces inco
faíl:
places, and aél:ed on che defenfive
·pare; and at length began to march away with ali fpeed, cwelve, chirreen and
fomerimes fifceen leagues a-day: and as forre Auchours repon, he fent away his
Baggage before, and what elfe was cumberfome, whilfl he with a feleél: numbe:r
of men well anned marched in che Rere. Howfoever the Enemy purfued
fo
clofe
~fter them, that nocwithíl-anding the long marches which
Die,~o Centeno
took, they
fcarce lo/1 light of chem; for abouc two dozen of Pikes which marched always
in
che Front, did continually gall them, untill at lengch chey wer~ uecerly defiroyed:
whenfoever
Diego Centeno
carne
to
any narrow País, he then made a fiop and
faced
the Enemy, and mainrained
it
for three or four days, unrill che Baggage and whatr
foever was cumberfome had advanced cwenry leagues before, and then he would
follow with ali hafie to overtake chem, and ~hen he was come up to bis Compa-
11ions, they would all fay,
1
We wifh
to
God chat he would give a íl:op
to
che pro–
ceedings of chis Tyrant, that we mighc cake a little repoíe for two or three days;
that in che mean time we mighr advance twency leagues befare him : bue
fo
hoc
a purfuit did they make afrer them (as I have heard from feveral of
Diego Centeno's
own people,) chat they had [caree caken five or fix hours of repofe and reír, be–
fore rhey eípied a íland of Pikes
fiill
following wich fuch diligence as if noc meo
bue che Devil had driven chem ; upon appearance of whicb they inílancly put
themfelves upon che march, whilll
Diego Centeno
himfelf faced che Enemy and co–
vered the Rere.
le happened one day tbat
Diego Centeno
and bis Companions
maincained a narrow País, which was fomething rocky, for che fpace of above
half a day togecher, uncill fuch time as nighc caufed boch panies
to
retire: during
which time one of chat Company, who was mounted on a Mare, whofe name (
have forgocren, alighced from his Beafi, and wich bis Gun wenr ro aRock, on
the íide of which caking a íl:ay for the better affurance of his fhot, he fired ar che
Enemy, and did the execution co kili a Horfe by che fide of
Carvajal;
which be–
íng done, che peor man returned ro cake his Mare, truíl:ing
to
her Leggs, thac
with
her fwifcnefs he íhould borh efcape the Enerny and overcake his own Parcy; bue
when he carne
to
feek bis Mare where he had cyed her, íhe had broke her Bridle
and was gone, having been affrighced wirh che repare of che Gun and che naife
of che Horfes which paffed by her,
fo
chac che poor man falling inco che hands
oí
Carvajal's
Souldiers, they took him and prefenced him to their Cotnrnander, who
being wearied with che purfuic, and angry at che refiílence which was made, and
more incenfed at che particular aél:ion of chis Souldier, he refolved ro puc him to
a
lingring death, and in order chereunco he íl:ripped him naked, and cied his Arms
and Feet and chrew him into
a
hollow Pie to die with cold ; for the colds in cbat
Councrey are fo extreme, thac the
Indians
cake care
to
carry their Pots and
J
arrs
under coverc and wichin che Walls of cheir Houfes by nighc, for otherwiíe they
would crack and buríl wich che incenfeneís of che Frofis. To chis miíerable tor–
ture was chis poor Wrecch expofed, crying out ali night, lamenting and fayina
is there no good Chriíl:ian who hath fo much merey and •compaffion for me as
~
kili me, and rid me out of chis miíerable world, which
will
be fuch a piece of
charity as will be recompenfed by blefiings from God.
Having paffed che whole nighc wich thefe fad lamencarions, fo foon as ir was
day, he was cold, that
Carvajal
in
tended him thac nights lodgiog for his ·puniíh–
mecr,