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.

BooK U. Royal Commentariu. co deílroy him 5, which had. been avoided, had there been a true and r'i.ght rinder- íl:anding of matters between them; but .the Devil, who always delights in Dif- cord and Mifchiefs; had by his Artífice contrived to prevent the true lnformation, that [o marters proceeding to Bloud and Tyranny, the lndians might be poífeífed with a finifter and prejudicial eíl:eem of the Spaniards, and of the Chrifüan Doc- · trine they profeffed to propagare. e HA. P. XIV~ - · Three B~ttels betwée:n th.e Indians· and the Spaniards-; · and of the Nunt/Jer ofi he Slain. Q.· Viz:qui11:, obferying the. h~fie which the Spi;.niards made towards.him; did ima- gine that their Defign was to engage him to fight, and therefore repenting' too late of his Securicy and Negleét, and being mad, and aíhamed for his Folly and· íl:upidity, he retreated as well as he could, unto .the top of a craggy and rug- ged Moumain, which was unpaífable, and inacceffible for Horres, where he fe- . cured bis Wornen and ufelefs People; and in the mean time, to amure and em- ploy the Spaniards, he rent a certain Captain, whom the Spaniards call Guaypalcon, though his proper Name was Huaypallca, the fignification of which I do not well underíl:and, becaure it is a word of the- Language of ~itu; but this Perfon, as we faid, was rent with Commiffion to raire what Forces he was able to oppofe the Spaniards, and having gathered fome numbers .together, he duríl: not aífault A/varado, fearing the .gteat Body of his Horre, which drew themrelves up on füch Ground, where they might be moíl: rerviceable, and not fight up- . ~m a difadvantage. Howfoever he found an opportunity to engage Almagro ,. who, to encompafs !f2!!.ifquiz. between him and · AlvArado, was mounted with bis Horre to füch a craggy and afp~rous part of a mountain, that he was in . danger of being entirely loíl: and dekated, as Carate confirms by there Words :, ' ' Huaypalcon, fays he, with his Souldiers, w.ent co engage Almagro, who, with hi~ ' '. .fforre, was got up to the ridge of a Mouncain, the arcent unto which was fo '" lteep, rhat chey mounced by turnings and windings, and had wearied and tired · " ali their tJorfes; and befides , che Indians threw down from che top mighcy ce great Stones, called Gálgas, which tumbling five or fix· furlongs ddwn, carried. " tbirty or fotty more befare them, and there drove innumerable others, before " they carne to che b~mome. Thus far are the Words of Car11te, ~he which are confirmed in like manner by Gornara, as we íhall ree hereafter. Almagro was greatly incommoded by the fall of there Rocks which killed both· I1isMen and Horre, and he himrdf alfo was in great danger of bis Life, to avoid which, he was forced to take another way lefs rugged, th~c fo he rnight be ena- l;>led the better to come at H11aypa!lca, who'fearing to fall between che two Corri- rnanders, retreated to the fafeguard of a íl:eep and craggy Moumain , by help of 'Yhich f;ie valiantly 1:lefended hirnrelf untill night; for in füch inacceffibl~ places as · / thore, neirhe~ the Horre nor Foot could be of Service; and the Jndians nad a greac advantage of the Piracochas, or Spanjards, who were laden with Armour and of- fenGveWeapons. The night being come, Huaypa!lca, by help of the darknefs re~' · treated wirh bisSouldiers into more faíl: and recure places. Trhe Day following tbe Spaniard.1 fell in with the Rere-guard of f2t:!J>:,qui11:,, who not dreaming of War Qr fighting, marched with their Army divided into cwo Bands, ac leall fifteeri Le agu es diítant one from the other ; as is reponed by Carate in the r2th Chapter of b.is 2d Book, and ,in ·che fame Chapter he hach:thefe Words foJlowing. " Don •: Dieg o, and D. Pedro rallied ali their Forces together; and the h1dians, by Che ob- " fcurity of the nighc, eftaped, and, \veñt co 1 join themfelves with flui~quí:t, and ' ' the 3 0 0 0 Indians, who caking their way .by the Lefc-halild, cut off tne Heads of U u u :t · fourteel.} , ·