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 111. ROJ.al Commentaries. " Funeral; the which, and other Crrcumíl:ances; preceding his Death, by which 1 " (as we have fpecifi'ed) he would take no warning, are fo füange, as can be at- " tribured to no other caufe than to the nnfe<!.rchable Judgments of Almighty " God. Thus far are the Wortls .©f Caráte. In which piad: he makes ií tompanfon between the Deach and Barial of Alma- ~r~, and c~is of ~ifarro; th~ . ~ircmnft~n~s df Mro[e Life :m9 Dea~h were ip ali thihg5 agreeabk. They ~ tompatuons, ·!fntl had fwoin· .Fnendflup, and entred liitó ~nicl~s to gain :and conq~er fhat Et~I¡~it,'~, . an~ it _is füange ro c~nfider wich wbat ·equaluy fott~ne ba1lanted· the tomfe"pflfüe·rr Lt'fS, and che crrcumfrances 'Of their Deaths. As the PátHé'bmttc repbrts in 'theClia'pter fol!oWing. ' ' Many Yeats after, íiítH'ne, thac ·che Wars were ceifed in that 'Kingdom; ~, · tl1~ Bones of this braV'H nd wdrdiy-O~Htleman -'Were takb,1 u.p out of the ' 1 ' · Gr~ve, and w~th füch decent Solernhity 'as l1>etame tbem, wete'put 'into a-C0ffui, " and ínrerred in a Vaul: 9f ' t!h~üa~hedra~ Church, ~che Riiht·tland of tbe " High Álraf1 Where it ~ined ih the ;year 1 )6b'. wllen 1 carn~ for Sp11in : 'The Death of .the Marqui'S bappetkd oo me z6th of'911ne; in the Year 1541. Cílrl¡te, whb \vas a·goód:;fliftonan, imi~~ed the lnetflód , o'f "1he 'greac Plutarck, tompatiag t'.he T.iv'e s of theíE-rwó 1amous i{eroes, w~'cf"wkre 1m!J.1a:ppy !paniardi, ~ncl ilirewatdeB by the World: Howioever'l1e jutiges them fo worchy, t'hat he toullf never ~~refs füffi2m 1 W{lerh"'.ith to ·~~jdt: tneif fi>r;Ufüs; and 1t9Itlparing dieit Lives, CuA:bms and Death together,- fi1ls,a b-bdle Chapcer \\vitb .th'at Sub- . jeét, which iS the 9t~ . of tbe -4th ~oo~, 'w'hicQ bein1üfan~n:ea ~tp tqére uur Commehtanes, 1 iliall fertte for the -sch Chápter ot the 3tl Book of ont 1S~cond Pare; che Words whereof '1<erb'Vi~ are f~~fe~~ L 1 ' r. " 1 ,r·;.. '.. l 'l 11 J 0 l • 1A·~· . • ' 1l i I~ ; '.. ' •• .,. t1 t , , : , : J r hr_r . , ! ' '1 -·, ' D::.., ~ L_ t ..,.., nf! " .. } ' Of.the Atlions -~·nd /¿¡¡aliti'ies of 1the Ma;qui~ .D~n Frantiíco . Pi<;arro~ ~rid the Lqrd, pepu_ty D0n D~eg·oí de Almagro. r ·, L r· . ; .' · f I ~ regar4 that _dre pif~qve¡ ,' .. and ·qmiw~~. of . ch~s ' Pt~vln·ce? t wbich is ;the. " Sub¡e~ of ch~ ¡;jiftó ;r) had ics Otig1nil frbril thefe two Captains of ' ' whom we háve hith~to di roí:lrfeq, nafüel~, rhe Marquis Don Fnmcifco Pif arrO>J _' ' and die Lord r:>eputy f>on . Diégo de .Almagr~, we ~r~ tlbligecl in ju(l:ice t0 tiheir " memories t6 defctibe the ~ali.fications anti ACtions óf t'hefe 'two Wordtles, in " com¡mifon of eacb wich the ocher; imitating herein tbe mechad of Plutarch; " who having Wrote the Lives·o(two greatOtptains, be in c11e next place c;ompares "' them together,. íhewing wherein tbey were equal, and wherein they <iliffered. " As to wJ1at concems their Parentage, ánd Families, we have .aJready dit: ' ' l:Oarfed; a·s to other mat:t;érs .. they .were both coura~iGus in their Perfons; .~' bold and clar~ng, patient ó,if L,about, verruous and ffütndíy,, being reaqy: ~ó, 1 per,- " ·form all good Offites, 'thougb, at th~it own Charge 'afid É~pence. They re- ' ' fembled each dther in rheh' tfáfut-al Inclinations, patticular1y in 'their éoQdin.ion " and füte of :tif~, fbr ñ~it'her -Of them wasanar.ried, though when they dyed, ~ che youngelt was arrived-1:-0 che A:g,e offixty '!ive Years. · _, " Th~y wer~ both inclirletl 'to ·War, though Almag;10 having for the ,chiefeft ·:: pare of'his Ufe no otca'fid(i c,b hercife .hün'felf in Artns, applied his mind with much earneífüets to l.iea,p ah~ ,gacher Riches. " ihey were both of.good Years V\ 1 hen they fuft e.ncred upon .tbe Conquefi of .« Peru, in which 'their Lah>ours were as great as we hav~ formerly defc,ribed.; " though th~ Marqais fuftain'ed more bf Danger t!herein chan toe be,p~cy had ' ' done; hecarlfe that whfül: th~ one ~pbfed his Perfon in the fir:ct: Difc.overy, ~; che other co'l'1tinued in Panama, to províCle alI necéífaries re{{Uired thereentQ, as . hath been before ·detlarnd. « They wete boch of greát MWds, and ehtertained high Thoughcs, whiéh tbey. " were enábled ~o put into prá6lice by thcir extreme Patience, joined to thac ~' affable and ·obli·ging Behavlbur which chey u'(ed cowatds rheir Souldiers. · They