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 II. Royal e omm~ntaries. :" thereqf. Go4oy returned ( as they fay) wim bis tail between bis legs, and with " ~wo' {M.niftrd, in cog,¡papy with hiqJ-, 'who had belonged to G4hete, and by help ; gf th~ir 1 flor fes haq made ari efcape ; the ,ill news heteof, which gre~dy croubled _! l'ifarn,or '1'.\7as !peedily feconded by Diego d Aguero, who fled for fafety to los Reyn; ·~ aµa ga'ld ¡elat~on; thac a¡J the Jndians were in Arms, and had burned all his ~' Pl~nf~tións ; ,and we~e very near with a mofl powerfull Army. The news ·~ :nereoI. greatl;: terrüie¡d tbe whole City, ·in regard the Number of the Spahiards "( ,w~s ínuch . ~, irr:i.inííhed . ;, howfoever, P,if'irro difpeeded Pe!er de Lerma de Hurgo! ~ ' with fevent,y Horfe, and many Jndia¡qs who were Friends, and were become '~· ·ChrifüanS: tp foter~ept them in their pa.ffiige, and hincler rhem from-making too '~ ' Qear an approach cowards the City, and he himfelf marched in:che Rere with " al! ~che Spaniard1: that re~ained ; bue Lerr.na fighcing ·with good fuccefs, drove ~' the Ene1ny inco che Rocks, where he mighc have rotally cjefüoyed ihem, had · 1~ .1ot ,Piéirr.~; f<:?~nded a retreat. . . . . · That day,one Sp1tnifo. H9rfe·man was k11led m che F1ght, but rnany were ·~ wouhaep ;· and Pedro de.Lerma had his T~eth beaten emt: Howfoever, the ln.!' ¡, dianJ recu,r.ned 'many tha.nks to cheir Gop che Sun, ,\f.! ho had delivered them " ' from chófe ;dangers ; 'and in cefümony chereof, offered many Sacrifices untó " him. ,T~en rhey removed their Camp ro a c.errain Moumain near unto /01 ' '. , Reye~, t.broug.b the middle ofwhich runs a River, where cl1ey concinued for the " 'fpa'ce of' ten Days, fighting and skirmifhing with the ,fp,aniards ; bue wich ,the (:, indlanJ/ 1 wpp were their Enemies, they avoided ali Engagements. l. · \ ' .' ~ r .-; . ' . -:,¡,. ,, '. 'thtis·faq n:'e füe Words .oí Gomara ; the which is confümed by Carate almoft · in the fame . :w~rds, and which (if we well obferve) is more •!n favour to ene ln- 4ia~s, than to the Spaniards. . The ctucb of all which is this ; The Infidels havíng '· ki!led and deíl:royéd many Sptt.niardJ on th~ Ways and .Roads, became fo encou- raged by their fuccefs, that.cpey refolved co at.tem¡:>t !01 Ron, and defiroy the Marquis and áll bis people ; and being on rheir March thicher with chis intentibn; , aboµt eightor ten Leagues from che Cit~; rhey encountred 'Pedro de Lerina and bis }füf~es, and' engaged valiancly wich them i , And in regard che Fight began. in a · Plain, che Spanijh Horfe had a great advantage on the lndit1 f!; _and killé<l many df ' them.; out rhey afrerwards ma:king á rétreat into che Mouatains,. with loud , - fhours, and .wüh the found of .Ti;u[J'lpets ancl;,Drums,allarum'd albthe.iná'ians round,' fo that t!hey encreafed. ro the number of forty th0t1fand : And in,regard -t~~ Mountaiqs,were ibarp· ang craggy, and that che Horfes hegan tio be tired and Weary, che lndianJ advemured to. fally out upGn chem; arid ,to. renew .tbe Fight; Pedrode Lerma had che misfortune to have ·his Teeth beaten ·ouc with_a Stone ·hur- led from a Sling ', beíides wl;kh many Spaniárds were wounded, of which thirty · two died, ro the great grief ~nd (orrow of al! ; likewifo eight fforfes died of rheir wounds, rhough aétually in iqe ~attel cher.e was·_but oneJMan, and oneHorfé that was íla:in.· The Governour who carne in the,Rere, obfeJving how bis Soul- diers were ,diíl:reífed, foímded a retreat, whi~b fer,ved for a Signa! to the Enemy, t~at h~ was maréhing to the Succour 9f his friends; at which the fndians being affiighteq 1 made a ret'reat, and fo ended \th~Ba,ctel of chat day, which was very · bloudy. The Spaniards heteupon~ retu.rneq t.o·cbe.City, and ~he lndians to their ' o Quarter and Reridezvous, where tbe Countrey-flocking in, they quickly made a Body of fixty thoufand Jndians under Comq;iand qf tlieir General Titu 1Hpangui; called by Carate. Ti foTupangui, and by Gor!Mra T iz-())o ; and with this force tbey · pitcbed their Camp rieár die City, haying che Riv.er between co-k~ep and defend iliem from che Spanifo Hor[e. · · · . ·· ·. There chey otferéd Sacrifices, and returned thanks w the Sun for having, as they imagined, given them an advantage over'the Spaniurds, and eau[ed them ,to retrecit into their City, and to give over the Fighr. The Hifiorian~ who write of thefe matcers fay, chat the lndi11ns offered:cheir Sacrifices in chanks for deliverance from their dangers ; and farther they add 1 that éhey conrinually skirmifhed wich the Spaniards, and not with che Indians, who c9ok part with the Spaniardl, fcorning; as it \Vere, to engage and fight againíl: their own Vaflals, after they had had the Ha-: nour to fight with the ViracochM ; and though daily Encount.ers paífed becweeri tbern of little orno darnage to .the Sparriard1, becaufe on the Plains che Horfe had great advantage, and éould hem in and encorppafs che l ndiatts on all fides; yet thé continua! Allarums whkh were giyen the Spaniards both by Night and Day, kepf B h b b z · füerri 555