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V.
Royal
Commentaries.
CH A P.
XXII.
Gonc;al~ Pi~arro
i/fues out Orders to bury the Dead.
.
He
difpatches 0/ficers i11to divers parts. The /light of
Diego
Centeno;
and what happened to the conquered Party.
S
O foon as
Gon
1
alo Pifarro
returned to his Tent, he found my Father there, and
deíired him to lend him his Horfe,
Sa!ini!la.,
untill his own were cured of che
ílighc
wound which
Gonf.alo Silv.eftre
had given him; which being gr·anced, he
mounced chereon, and caking
a mm
round the Field, he gave order co bury
the dead, and to cake care of fuch as were wounded ; which he found for the
moft pare firipped _of cbeir Cloches by che
Indianr,
who, without regard to Friend
· or Foe, made all prize which carne wichin their power : che comrrlon Souldiers
were all buried cogecher promifcuouíly in ten or cwelve great Vits, which were
made for rhac purpofe ; bue che Bodies of Noblemeo and Perfons of Qg_alicy
were carried to che Viriage of
Huarina
(which was near thereumo, and for wliich
.reafon chis Fight vas called che Batee! of
Huarina)
and there they interred them
. in a íinall Church built by the
lndicms
chemfelves, in which chey Were caughc rhe
Articles of che Chriíl:ian Faich, when chings were in peél:ce, and when che time
was proper
for
ic : and there chofe Bodies reíled for che [pace of four years; un–
till
the croubles being ac an end; and the Empire f.louriíhing in peace, chofe Bo–
"dies .vere taken up ·and carried
to
che great Charch
of a
City which the
Sp4nia~d1
.had lately founded and called
it
the City of
Peace,
·where chey were re-buried wich
much Solemnicy, Maífes and Sacrifices, which cominued for many days. The
Gentlemen of
Peru
did generally contribme to the expence hereof, in regard théy
were ali related to che dead, eichér by Kindred or by Friendíhip.
Gon
1
alo Pip-mo
having buried che dead, and caken care of che \Vounded, difpacched away Officers
into divers pares
fo
provide neceffaries which were anting.
Dionyfio de Bovadi/1,z
was
{ene
to the Cícy of
Pl-1te,
to bring whac Silver he could get for payntenc'of che
Souldiers. ·
Diego de Ca;-_vajal,
furnamed che Gallam, was difpatched ro che
Cicy
of
Arequepa
on che
fame
errand, and Captai
fohn de la Torre
was [ene to
Co~co;
,
all.
three were atcended wich chiréy Mufquetiers apiece, who had cornrniilion ro
prefs whac
men
-they met, and bring them to che place where
Pi
1
arro
lay en-
camped. .
·
.
.
.
But now to recuro to
D~·ego Centeno
(of whom we have for forne time been
íilem)
He
was íick, as Authours write of him, having bee11 ftx times Jet bJoud
too in che diíl:emper of a·PJeuriíie ; and cherefore was not aétually prefenc in che
Fight, bue was carried abouc in a Chair, frorn whence feeing che ílaughter of his
rnen, and che lofs of the <lay, he Jefe ·bis fea
e
and ·rnounted on his Horfe, which
was led near
to
him : and being overcome wich che fear of death and che defite of
life which is namral
to
al! meo, he fle_d away, 110c ílaying for che Bifhop oniny
ocher; but onely wich che company of one Prieíl: called Father
Bifcayner,
·
he rook
his way ·over che Deíarcs and Mouncains, leaving che high way, che bettei.- to
elude the devices and íl:rategems of
Carvajál,
and carne ar length to rhe Cicy of
Los Rges
;
fo
chat neither
Carvajal
nor any of his own fide knew
wl1ar
was be–
come of him, .rhac
he
feemed to ·be vaniíhed like an Appa_riti<m; or cartied away
by fome íl:range'J;:nchantmenc. And chough he was informed thac the Prnfülent
Gafca
was·in the Va_lley of
Saufa,
which was in his way, yec he thougho not
fic
to go thitlm;
bü'c
wrore a Leccer to him by the Elther
Bi/cay;,;er,
to excufe his
non-anendarke, being forced
to
go
fi~íl:
to the Cicy of
Los Reyu
to
provide him–
felf wich fu¿h necetTaries as were requiGte Jor his own perfon,
and
agreeable
ro
che quality of that Office and Dignity
i[1
whi\h he had ferved. And here we will
leave<him
ac ;tto~Reyes
to.fpeak
of
Francifco de.Carvajal,
who was wandring about
che Gouncrey'
fo
fearch, as Auchours fay, of
Dqn
Frfl:J '/ohn Solano,
Biíhop of
Cot,co,.
againíl: whom he was highly incenfed, ·faying, t.hac whereas he oughc to have been
in the Church, praying unto qod for che peace ofC r"íl:ians, he ""._as tarned Soul–
dier, and was becorne
a
chiefOfficer in the Army of
Diego Centeno :
but being noc
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