The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

Éoó ·K VIII. Royal Comme1itaries: but therewith felUnto fucha Sadnefs and Melancholly, a~ br~ke bis Hearc iñ a fewdays. We ?ave only now t~ relate the End rf.Captain lefartin G"'~cia Loyol~~ whom, m reward of havrng taken the Inca Pnfoner, and many other Services which .he performed to ~he Court of Sp1 1in, th ey married t9. the Infanta, who was Ntece ~o the. laft Prmce, and _Daug.hter.to his Bro~her Sayri Tupac: whereby he carne to mhent that Eftate which thts Prmtefs rece1ved from her.F ~ther; and for his greater Honour and Advancement, :ind better Service qf his Majefty, hé was preferred .to be• Governour, and Captain General of the Kingdom of Chile, w.here he hada great par~y .of Horfe, with a good'force of Spanifh lnfantry under h1s Command. lt was h1s Fortune to govern this Kingdom for feveral years, and fome Months, with great Prudence and Difcretion, and to the• con· tentment alfo and fatisfaétion o( his Compal,"lions..; howfoever he was engáged id tominual Labours and Embroyls, ca~fed by the Wars which Y{ere w¡iged againft the Indians; and which ar.e·not yet atan enct, in this year ;16.i3, having ~ve~ lince 1553, when the Indians began firft to rebel, _been conftantly carried on wirhou.t Truce or lntermiffion during ali that time, ás we have intimated before in feveral1Places. W hilfr this Governour employed himfelf·in the ex'... ercifes of W ar, he went one day. (accorcl,ing to bis u fu al cufrom) to vifit the fe- veral Forts which were rai~~d o_n the.Fronfiers, to curb the Enemy, and keep them from making incurfions and depredauons on thofe lndians, who had fub~ mitted,,an~ were become Serv~nts tp the SpaniardÍ : And having fupplyed all tq'ofe Gardfons wi~h Ammunuon and Provifions, · he returne4 to thqfe Cities within the Kingdom which were fetled and 1n peace: And being withont the Limits of the Enemiesquarters (as indeed he was) and as he believed out of d~nger, he difmiífed 200 of his Souldiers, (which were then of his Guard,) and diípeeded them aw~y to their refpeét.ive quarters: Leaving himfelf only with ª'" bout thirty Companions,amongft which were feveral Captains, and old vete(ane Souldiers, wqo had ferved m:my years in the Wars: And being come in~o a very pleafant Plain, they pitched their Tents, intending tQ re¡>ofe an~ folace themfelves . that Night and feveral Nights· afcerwards, that they. might re~ cover the Sleep they had loft, by their continual wat~}liqgs ; for whillf; they y¡rere on the Frontiers, taking careto fecure the Garrifons, they were fo continualiy allarm'd by the Eriemy, that they had noí: time to Reft, Eat7 or Sleep. . _ , The Áraucos and 'Indians of other Provinces, Neighbouring on th~e who had rebelled, tent their Spies by N ight to difcover the condition of the Spa- niardf ; and íinding them without c;:::entinels, and in all fecurity faíl: aíleep, aI,ld as [;}fe as their E.nemies could delire, they whiftled to each other with Bird~Call~' aad gave notice by fuch kind of barking and howlings which Giacalls or y.J olves uíc in the Night, which werethe fignalsagreed uponamong!t them. At thefe noifes great nuIIJbers of Indians -carne flocking together, an,d with ali the filence poffibie, went foftly to the Spaniards Tents, .where finding them aíleep; and in their Shirts in Bed, they cu.e the Throats of every one 9f them; an~ carrying away with them their Horfes, Arms, and all the Spoyl which belonged to the Spaniard!. • . . . . . . This was che end of the Governour Martin G4.rc1a Loyola, wh1ch was much lamented over all the Kingdom qf Chile and Peru:; but as often as that Dif- courfe was moved, either amongfr Jn_dúmr or Spaniards, ic was confefü:d, tha~ · • Providence had fo ordered tht>fe matters, that the death of the late Inca fbould in this manner be revenged on the Spaniards by the Hands of bis own Va!fals. And herein it was more plahlly evidenced by an lqfatuation which poífe!fed the 1\1,inds of fuch Captains, and Ve~erane ~ouldiers prafü(ed . io ~he , Wars of that Country, who knowing that they were' near an Enem17 mcenfed and enraged'againft them,_.and thirfting after the Blood of the Spa?1~ards, lhou!d yet with fo much fecunty compofe themfelves to a 11eep from wh1ch they d1d never afterwards awake. . This Governour Martin Garcia Loyola lef~ one Daugh~er, whi~h he h~d by; bis W ife the Infanta, Daughter .of the ~rm_ce Don Diego -~ayn Tupac, the which Daughter was tranfported 10to Sfam, and th~re m~rm:d to . ~ Gent~e ... man of Q.yality, called Don 'John E~riquez. de Borta. ~1s C~thohck ·Ma¡e- fty belides the Ii.ftate which !he inhented from her F ather m Per11, was pleafed ' ó o 6 o o o · (as • 1