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.

i88 .R.oya~- Commentaries. · --How they fdUed Valdivia 1 - and--mdin?ained Tears afterwards• .1 a War Fifiy T H E manner how they killeq Va!divia, was after the co¡ning of this- !econd . ~ .J.\, Advice relajed in áifferent ways by th'efe rhree Jndian?, be<Zaufe that none ·or tl'iem were prefent at bis Death: One faid, that Lautaru finding his Maíl:er tied to a Tree, reviling and reproaching him firíl:, faid, Why is'chis Traytor [uf_. fered to live ? and with that killed him with his own hand : Another faid, That Valdivia befare he died, delired firíl: to [peak with his Servant Lautaru, hoping by h~ ~e~~s ~l!d interceffiqn tq fave. _his ,li!e ,:. B~t ~he .n:o~ ser.t~in int~ig~e 1 we have? 1sith1s,l '5Il~anan!~Jd Ca:ptam oeat ' h~S ·~fams_out Wlt_h ~ cl~b, pe~.' s it mlght be thwOld.~apt~m wh~ ·r:ianaged ·alJ t~~s áffa!11; ~or 1t is . fatd,_ . t~~~ lp· Jdlled hirh ·wit9ou~ ·any par~y, Je~ bis people tr@at~ng w1th hit?., ano behev1frg:án · th~, ,promifes and vows wh1ch th1s unformnarn G0vernour m1ght make w~1lífile was1tied to <f :rrée; •and in apprehenftons of Dea~h, ~hen he might eafily.Ahf'¿le -on the coriditio_~cf life to leave,their Counrré~; · and deparr. th~rice with .~1,t M Pedple, ánd S0tdd1ers~ :md never to return aga1~; nor trufü~g, a~ I fayl t~ ch~ credulous humour ·ofrhis people, whom he perce1ved hearkenmg to the promifes .and yows·of'ra!di:zli4, '<he refolutely paffed through the midíl: of them, ana · ~íth.a dub dafhed oucihis braiins, putting an end to the parly which'his SouldiersenteV- .tained with him.; 1and.therewith turne~ towards 0 them, faying, Are·ye fo fo6lifh .and dedulous as ro·rruf:bto rhe wdrdsofavanquifhed and capfrvatea llave? \W'hal: will.' not a'Man ~n his condition.p¡;omife, and how linle w i1l He peifórm áir~} he hath obtained his liberty ? , 1 • ; , • , ;:' '. Bue the circumíl:anc!=S of his Death were reported' ih another 'manner by a 'sptJ.;- , niard, 1 who was a Narive of Trtixillo, called Francifco de Rieros, \vho was a Cap~ , rain then in Chili, and.Maíl:er of fome Indians i)1 that Kingdpm ; who comi~g to Pm fometilne afaer irhat fatal difaíl:ure, reported, 1 Fhat the Jndians paffed the,Hight · after nhis V.iét(i)ry with-Dances and Merriment; and at the ~nd of eve~y Dali<r~ · they ..cut offa piece of'the fleíli pf Paldivia, and another of the Prieíl:'s, Cthey be'.. ing both tied together) which they broiled before their faces, a·nd then eat it' 5 during which time, ' Valdivia confeffing his Sins to the Prieíl:, they both expired .16 · that condition. It is more probable, that after che Captain llad kille.d him Witp his duo, that the lndians might errt him, not that this fort of lndians delighted in . humane flefh, but onely ·ro vent their rage and fpleen on him, who had been' th~ Aurhour and Origfoal of ali thdlavery and .mifery they had endured: ' 1 · • From that time che Jndiam took up a cuílome of fighting·with the Spaniards in feveral Squad1:ons or DiviGons, as D. Aloi;ifo de Erzilfa in the firíl: Canto of bf.s Araucana repoHs ; and th:it after rhis rebellion, they maintained che War 49 years Úmill the end of the year ·I)) 3 ; at which time D . Sebajlian de Cajlilla began hi~ . rebellion in the Vi!Ú_ de la Plata, and Potoji, which are in the Kingdom of Pm1, and Francifco Hernandez Giran began bis in Cozco. . Thus have l, as dearly as 1 could, related the particulars of the Fight and Deatn of che Governour D. Pe,dro de Valdivia, as it was written and related in PerH,' by chofe who liv~d in Chili; it ·being referred to every Man's judgment to believ<1 ·rhat report whtch he eíl:eems moíl: probable: the which Story I have anricipated · and reponed out of its due place and time, in regard it is the moíl: memorable and notorious paífage that ever happenec! in che Jndies, which I would not omit to de- fcribe, leíl: I fhould have had no other occafton which might lead me to a farther . difrnurfe of Chili, or leíl: 1 rnight have had time or life to extend this Hiílory to that period 'of years in which the Sp11niards became abfolute Maíl:ers of that King- dom. · , CH A P.