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.

Bo.oK I. R_oyal~ Commentaries. .. ·~ .... .,. .... ,-.:::-1·,~r ·"'--'· :-o;"' ' .... 4 •• .... 4~9.,.. in which fad and diúnal place and condition they fuffered Miferies beyond ex· preffion. Of all thefe thirteen brave Heroes G~11ra makes mention 'but of two bnely ; I know not his rea-fon for ic, or why he omics to name che otl;ier eleven; but now hhink on'r, 1have obferved that it is the common omiffion and defeél: of Spanifh Writers, noc to reckon particularly ·the Heroe5 of their Cbunrrey by ,n:une, for they ought to declare their Names and Surnames, their Families, Coun- tries and Parentage, th:it the memory of fuch Perfons, famoils in their Generatiori 'for che Conqueft of a new World, ,may be conferved unto all Ages, and theii Families boaíl: in the honour of being allied to fuch.Anceíl:ours; .The two whicH GoMara mentions are Peter de Candia, ~who was nota Spaniard nerther, bue a,Greek_; and BJJrtholomew R·uJz, de Moguer, aNa:tive of Mogtter, and ·Pifot in chis Naviga- . ' üon and Voyage. But Carate was more ac-01rate in hls R.e1afion, for .befides the t\VD former he; names feven oth.ers, viz.·. Nicho!1u de Ribera; 'fohn'de la Tor;~,_ Alonji; Bri/mno, ali Na¡ives of Venavente, Chr.ij/opher de Peralta, .a Native of Baera; Alonfi/ . de Truxiflo, Francü de'CueUar, a Na:tiVe of Ct1Cl/4, and A/bnfa de Malina , born at V/Jeda. Befides which recite-d ay 'this Writer, there was aiwther Ribera, cornpa- ·llion to the former, whofe Name 1 have forgotte~, perháps it inight be 'f eronimo or Alonfo, but to difünguiíh. the-rn one from the -otl:ier, they afuaHy . called them Ribera the Senior, and Ribera the funior; BOt t'flat one was mucfil 'e~der tban tbe other in Ytars, but by reafon of tbeir fen_iority in the Society with Pir,ari-o~ for one of thein was in the nurnber of the firíl: Advenrurers which carne :fronl Pana'lha, and the other was of the (econd or third Expedition, which carpe thente with Alma• gro; all which particulars 1 learned in my own Coantrey from thofe who dif-. courfed of tho~e tirn~, and were for -rhe moft par~. "?ye-witnell~ of tl)e m~ttér of fal!l:; 'both which RwerM had their Shares and D1vifions of Jnd1ans made to tbem in Ciudad Real, where they left Sons and Daµghters, educáced with.. a,11 Go_odnefs · ~md Verme. He whomCarate calls Alonfo ·Trii:r.·illo, was 'fame1 1 for l was well ac- quainted with bizyi, aaq know that he had Lands and Poífeffidhs given him' i_ti C o-t.co. , and that 'i,n the Year 1560. when I deparced ftom that Cicy, hé waS'fl:ill living. Moreover Francü Rodrigun of ·Vi/la Fimte near Goúo, was imotber of dié thirteen, and one of-the firíl: which paffed the Line, which, as we have faid; At·· magro drew with the point of his Sword, and was living in the year abovefaid; oriely two are wanting of the thirteen, whofe Names we know tiot. .And thus much we have .faid to illuíl:rate the Hiíl:01y of Carate, in honour to tbote Fami- lies, whofe Off-fpring may well boafr to have been defcended from füch famous, Ancefl:ours. The like particulars I íhall mention in ocher paffages, where I find that Spanifh ·writers have been defeétive, that_fo the Reader may receive. et)tiré fatisfaétion in this Hiíl:ory,. · - .. I' ',/' C H A P.