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.

~OO·Kll. Royal . Cornmentaries. any occafion-wa.s offered to make mention of him ~ 1have heard feveral GenrÍe- .men remember him with gr~at piaife of bis GoodnefHna Verrue ; and fome of · ~em fpecified and recounted.the kindneífes and good offiées he had íhewn to theni .~n. partieul~r : .Aod wher~as pe was very f~mil\arly a~quaint~,¡. and converfanr iri ._my Father s h@u. fe; l hav:e been ~n Ear-w1rnefs of d1vers pauages relating to his good Narure, and to the g~erofity of his gre;it Soul : One -of w.hich was this ? .That in their Voyage to Peru his people fuffen~d much far want of frefü Water; lo tbat when they carne ~o Tumpk, they,M(;aine -very fickly, and riiany of them ,were fo weakned by th~ (!:<llenture Fever, ;by reafon . of chs,Thirft they qad endu~ .red, that they were notable to feave tb~Sbip ,and Land·on the íhore. Where- .Iore A/varado. h¡mfelf landed frnm tbe Ship" and prqvided. tbern wiéh Water; 'and though he had fuffered as mucb by Thir(l: as any of thém, yec h¡; would no[ ' n~e a droi? 9f Water U~tij1; hé w~ aífur~d that th~ Sick had drank,' and al! che' .'Ships-company had been pr0vided. ~ny other _generous Aéts of this nature ' were related of this wortliy Gentleman ; though Gomara in his Writings gives a different charaéter of him,' 1 which he muft.,have .~eceived from fome of thofe (as (Óer~ were many) who were envious apd emúlous of his Vertue~ and Fortune : And though it was impoffible ·to fuppreíS the.. fame of bis Exploit5 and Adven- ,tures, which were notorious to all die World, yet at leaft they endeavoured to ~eclipfe and difparage che glory ..of them. Of which_this Authour being fenfible, .did in pare excufe antl dear liimfelf of tbe faHity of chofe reports whith were gi- '.ven; and fo concludes the 191d Chapter of bis Book with thefe words ¡ He that 'Joth "WeO., and ·ü not praifed, lives amongft bad Neighbours, &c. And this he faid, be· caufe he knew that in aU eíl:ates ofMen, there are fome who are envious and flan~ derers, and unworthy the foci~cy of good Men, being inclined to fpeak a lye, ra~ 'ther than to utter truth irr commendations of another. And now we íhall recura to the Affairs of Peru, and to the Tr~faétions therein fmce the depamire of Don '¡!tiro iJe .A/varado from thence. · li ;i . • 1 !.1.. , CH A .P. XVII. Of ihe Fo~ndation ofthe City de los Reyes, ando/ the Citj - of Truxillo. S. O -Íoon as the Governout had dif~d Don Pedro de Alvarado, he immediately gaye notice tbereof to bis Partner Don Diego .de .Al"!a¡,ro, . then a~ f:o:uo, and therew1th fent a great number of tho(e Gentlemen which c::am~ w1th Alv¡if,rado, to be entertained in the Servic~ of the,Prince Manco lile.a, and bis Brothers, [ohn ·~d Gonfalo Pifarro, defuing them to be ferviceable to tbe Inca, anq kj,nd to the lndians; for in regard the JncA furrendrnd himfelf voluntarily, aild of bis own ac· cord, he would not have hin1 lofe that <;onfidence and affeétion which he had con- ceived o( the Spqniards ; in tbe mean t,irne the Governour remailled in tbe Valley of Pach.acamac, with defign to build a City neat the Sea-coaft far the better advan- tage of Trad~ .and Commen::e : And bavmg~ confiqere d upon this .matter wirh his .friends, h~ difpatched (everal pe+fobs expe rienced.in Maritirrie affairs, to difcover on both fides where w'as the moft convenient place for a Port or Harbour. At lengdi being i11fomied, that four Leagues to tqe N,orth of Pachacnmac, there W!iS , a very fafe Port right againíl: t:he Valley of Rimac ~ which when the Governour had viewed and furveyea, he tranfplant€d t)le péóple wbich had begun to fettle a Colony in the Valley.of Sauffa, wbich is thirty Leagues ~om Rimac within the ~nd, unto that c<,>nvenicmt place where he foullded the City of los Reyes in the year 1534. · 'L