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BooK
V.,
Rüyal
Commentaries.
XLII.
·()f
other :pa/!ages
lile
th~
other~
;
and what.
h:1ppe1~e<Í
,hy
a
·
13oy
who tbuched 'one of
the
Y2f!a1·q:rs
of
Carvajat
·WH
EN he marched o~t of
Co:teo
to go to
Co/lÍ/to.
with three hundred
Soul–
.
diers after him, -all·dra
1.~m
up
in formofBattel; ·
fór
he was much p'\eafed
to fee his men well exeroifed and rnárchir'tg in good arder. ºA lirtle more
rhan a
league from che Cicy, hecobferved one of ibis Sbuldiers to feparate from the ,reft,
ofche Company, and to recite behind
a
R0ck in the way for his nat_ural eafemenc:
Carvajal,
wh0.remained always in the Rere, the better
t0
obferve the match of
his Troops, feemed very angry and tnuch difpleafed wirh che Souldier
for
leavrng
his
Rank; ,che Souldier 'excufed himfelf, being urged
by
bis natural neceilicies.
How,
fJ.idCarvajal,
agood .9ouldier
rf
Peru,
who
ü
the beft·SouldieY in the world, ought
to eat hi1
Loaf
of
Bread at
Cozco,
and caft it out again at
Chuquifaca, which are two
1
hundred leagues diftant each from che other.
'
.. Ac anotber time
Carvajal
travelling with five o~ íix Companions, they brougbt
him a roaíled Leg of Mucton of that large kind of Sheep which are in chac Coun–
rrey, and which are half as big rnóre as chofe are in
Spain:
One of rl\oie in che
company called
Hernan Pere:::. Tablero,
who was a familiar Friend of
Carvajal,
offe-
.,.
red to be Carver, and as
a
bad Husbaod in his Office cut out large ílices :
what
ikft
thou mean,
faid he,
to cut out /uch great pieces?
'I give every man, anfwet·ed he,
his proporcion;
it is n,e/J done, faid
Carvajal,
for the Droil i1
in
his Cut whó cwei for'
more.
,
,
·
Wheo
Carvajal
was retúrned viétorious from che purfuit he had made after·
D~o Centeno,
he rnade a Baoquet a~
Couo,
,intl faviced
~11
his Captains and chief
Otticers thereunto: aod though Wme was dear at that ume, aod worth thrée hun–
dred pieces of Eight che
Arrobe,
or twenty five pounds weighc, being about
frx
Gallons Engliíh rneafure, yet che Guefu drank freely of it, aod not being accu–
fiomed to driok Wine, they }Vere
ali
fo
difordered chat fome fell a-íleep in their
Chairs, others on che Floor, fome mmbled down, and every one was ill acc0m–
modaced and in difguife; which when
Donna Catalina Leyton,
corning forth from
her Chamber,
faw,
íhe, in a fcorning manner, faid, alas for poor
Peru,
that thou
íhouldíl: have the misforcune
to
be governed by füch people as thefe; which
when
Carvajal
heard,
Peace,
faid he,
you oíd Jade, and !et them fleep but two hourI,
for there
iJ
not one•of thefe fellows but
u
able to govern half a world.
At
another time, having imprifoned
a
rich man for fome words which
he
was accufed to have faid againíl: him, and having detained him in prifon.for want
of due evidence and proof of macters againíl: him, though he feldom íl:ood upon
thofe niceties to difpatch his Enemies : The poor man finding that his-Execucion
was delayed, he imagined, chat the onely way to fave his life was to ranfome him–
felf with money; for it was w~ll known that
Carvajal
had on che like occaíion
taken che prefent and been reconciled : upon chis fuppofüion, ·he fenc for a Friend
of
his
and defüed to bring him two Ingocs of Gold, which he had la'id in fuch a
place, which being brought co him, he fent thern
io
Carvajal,
defiring him
to
heal"
his Caufe, and his Anfwers to the Accufacions ofhis énemies:
Carvajal
having re–
ceived the Gold, wenc
to
vific the Prifoner, whofe lodging was in his Houfe :
And the Prifoner pleading th¡ic he was falíly accufed, deíired him to be fatisfieg
with the mifery he had already fuffered, and rhat he wou.ld pardon him
far
God's
fake, prornifing for che future to becorne a true, fairhfull and
a
laya! Servant to
him, as he would find in time.
Carvajal,
caking bis lngots of Gold, faid with
a
loud voice ( thac the Souldiers in the yard below might hear him)
why,
Sir,
having fo authentick_Writings and Papás to (hew
a.
you haw, did not you prodaoe thém
bf–
fore: Go your ways in God's ni!rne in peace, and live fecure!J, for though we are i11.gainft thd
King, it is not reafon that we fhould lik§wife be enemie1 to the Church of God.
We have formerly in ariother place related how
Carvajal
íl:rangled
Donna
Marii
Calderon,
and hanged líer out ac a Window
of
her Lodgi.Ags ;. we-were theri véry
priefin
this
narrative, and did
not
plaful.y fpecifie the·
partilmla.r word~
and·reafons,
not