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before it was begun on
Pif~rro's
fide: which whe~
Hernando_ Baohicáo
per~i-'
ved
he returned back to
hlS
former Sq_uadron, crymg om V1étory as loud as
any.' One of the H,orfemen _on
Center,q'~
hd~, b~rn at
Htr.rera de .,:llcantara?
(
whofe
name I have forgotcen, runmng away,
m
q1s Flight and full carnere, acc1dentally
happened to país by,
Franci[co de_C11rpafal
füting on lús fr1!all, Nag, as "'.e have be,
fore mentioned, anc;l not knowmg
1
who he was, gave·h1m a ílroak w1th a broad
Sword over che Vi.zarq of,his Head-piece, which being·given wich a füong Arme
and
a
good
Will,
che Sword ~ntred deep wichin che Irm::i, bue
yer
went noc
fo
far as to,wound him,: at which chofe.who
faw
it wondered very much; and
af–
ter che Battel was ended, and ali chings quiet,
Caroaj.alíhe.wed che Head-piee.~
to
Gon9alo Pi.farro,
ánd faid to hin:t , wl;ac
do
yo
u think,-w_ould have b~come •of
me , had I not been guarded w1th th1~ defence
?
One chird pare of
D1e¡/,o
Ge'rite–
no's
Foot were all ílain, as is rnenrioned before; anocher third pare of_them, when ·
Viltory·was founded pñ,their fide, wer~ licenfrd
_ro
plunder
P'.fªr~?'s
Camp, and'
accordingly chey
1
fa(Jed a greae pare
,of
1t ; but chis pro.ved che
ir
rume, and was
a
great occaúon of che lofs of che day,:, The remainder of che lnfancry, which were
not above úxty in ali, were !efe at pufb, of Pike wich
·Pifarro's
Squldie1's, fecon–
ded with a Party of
'-fohn de Acofta's,
A cercain Souldier of
Centenrl-s
fide, called
--(luadramiros
(
whom
l
knew) a Man tall ofSeacure, an
d well íhaped,
of
a peaceable di(poGtion apd more a Courtier than a Souldier, g
:-.veAcofta
.a
pufh
wich his Pike in che T
1
hroat ; and che head ofche,Pike,rernainin
g wicbin che fleíh,
he gave him with rhe Scaff end fuch
a
blow over che Shoulders, thac
Acofta
was
therewich knocked d<;>wn, with his Heels up in the,Air : at che Carne ti~e a
Ne–
ger
chanced to come m, whom
l.
kµe
1
w, called
-(jua~a/,,,pe,
and gave h1m a
cuc
over boch che Calves of his Leggs;
l?UJ,
the
Nég~r
b~ipg
a weak
lit
ele fellow,
and
the S\I\ otd as dull and as b)jlck wich ruíl:
as
che M,aíl:e.r,:J1e racher bruifed che flefh
than
cut
it.
.
.
·
At
lengeh
Pi9arro's
men coming to handy-blows ,with chofe of
Centeno's,
they
killed chem almoíl: all : bue
rohn de Acofta
faved boch
Gitadramiros
and
Guadalupe
from being killed : for he interpoíed hiQ'.l(elf becween ch~m and chofe who would
have killed ehem, and cryed out a-loud, that they deferved Qg_arter and alfo
Ho–
nour and Reward : What
I
have faid here
I
knew to be true; for afrerwards
I
took acquaincance wkh
Guadalupe,
when he
)1/as a
Mufquecier in one of che Com–
pan¡es belonging
to
Gonfalo Pifarro,
guartered ar
Co~co,
where he was gallant
in
his Habit , and dreífed up in Feathers as gay as a
Peacock..,
becau[e every one re–
fpeéted hirn for bis courage and bravery. And here
I
muíl: beg the Reader's par–
don for having defcended chus far to trivial parciculars, having 011ely'an intention
hereby to confirm che trurh of my Narrative by the Tefiimony of having been
an Eye-witnefs
to
che foregoing Tranfaétions.
·
CH A P.
XXI.
The '11umber
of
thofe who were kjtled and wounded on both
fides
,
with other particular Succe/fes : as alfo what was
aéied
by
Carvajal
after the Bat,r,el.
·
T
HE efcape of
Guadramiros
was after ~he B~ttel ended , and afcer the Viél:~
ry plainly aP,peared for
Go»falo Pifarro
;
for
o'n his fide were
flain
about
a
bundred rnen,
of
which feventy odd were Horfemen, and about fifceen "fooc,
befides chofe which were wounded, amongíl: which,were Capcain
Cepeda, rohn
de
Acofta,
and Captain
Diego Guillen.
On
Diego Centeno's
fide above chree Imndred ánd
fifty were killecf, and amongíl: them theírMajor General, and all the Caprains of
Fooe, with cheir Eníigns, being the Flo,wer of cheir Army, and che choice{l Men
amongíl ehem; befides which
Pedro
dj
f.,os Rios,
Captain of Hórfe,
and.Diego
AJ.
vare~,
who carried che Standard, dyed on the place. There were, beÍtdes thofe
that were ílain, three hundred and fifcy wounded
1
of
which above
an
hundred
and