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 IV. Ro)'ª! Commentaries. Gonfalo Pit;arro, having ¡eceived advite of the defe at ofhi s Capcains, and chat the Vice-king daily inereafed in .numbers of his rnen, and.íl: reogrhe ned in A rms ;md Ammuniticin for War, concludéd it neceífary w ith all p offible fpeec.ho de- firoy bis Forces, before grearer ai9 carne to him from Spain and oche r pares of che Indie;, which would be landed at T ump i:{:, or ac che Porcs chereaboucs, cowards which . places che Vice-king was drawing h.is Forces; ~nd in che mea? cim~ he endeavou- red co intercepc all Paekecs ef-Ad v1ee from Spam; and from h1s-Maiefiy, che want - of which wculd greacly difcourage che minds of che énemy: 'vvich chis refolution, he prepared all things for a. Batee!, on che fücce~ of ~hich he ~ntended to ha~rd his formne in ca[e che enemy. would fiand cp ir; and accordmgly Orden; were iífued out coche Capcains, che Souldiers received cheir pay, che Horfe were com~ manded co march before co Truxillo, and fifarro himfelf \yich che C,hief of .bis Commande1:s r~~1:i.íned .behi~d co bring_up tne R~re. . . . About th1s wne a Bnganune from Arequepa arnved m che ¡>ore of Lima, which brouohc an Lmndred chou(and pieces of Eighc for acrnunt .of Pifarro: ac che fame címe 0 alfo cal't.e in another Sbip from che Co11tinenc, belonging to Gonfalo Marre!, and which broughc bis Wife, Cbildren and Famrly co be chence conveyed co Co:{:,co where bis habic.ltion was. Tbis happy accidenc fo encouraged Pifarro and bis Parcy, chac they grew very high and infolem thereupon, and, as if forcune had been on cheir ftde, chey believed che whole \Vorld was their own. ' Thus far Au- g11frinc de C;¡¡·,1te, ro which Diego Fernande:{:, adds, chat they became fo proud, and made fuch \'ain boaíl:ings, char fome calked as if Gonfdlo Pifarro was to cake upon him che Tide and Grown of a King; arguing in füs favour, chac all Kings and Governours took cheir original and beginning by force ; thac che Nobilicy of che world defcended from che haughcy and unjuíl: Cain, and che poor and meek from .A.bel: that ir plainly appeared in hleraldry which blazes che Efcuccheons of great men that cheir Arms conrain nothing bue Weapons ofWar and Tyranny. Fran- cifco de Carvajal_ was much of chis opi~ion, an_d in confum~tion hereof, he deftred that che Old Teíl:ament fhould be rev1ewed, and che laíl: W11l of Adam chere conful- - ted, whecher rherein he bequeached thé K'ingdom of Peru to Charle; che Emperour orto che Kings of Cafti!e. Ali which Gonfafo Pifarro héarkned unco wich much fatisfafüon, being pleafed to hear che flacceries of his Abectors. Thefe are che words of Diego Fernande:{:,, which I have excraéted verbatim out of che thirty fourch Chapcer of his fir(t Book. · . On che Veffels which lacely caine into Lima Gonfalo Pif am láded greac quancícies of Arms and Ammunition, and chereon fhipped an hundred and fifcy feleél: Soul- diers. And to gi,·e che betce_r councenance and aurhority to his Affairs, he car- 1 ied Dotlour Ccped..t, one of che J udges, with him, as al lo 'fohn de Cacem che Ac- councant General, [o chat by the deµanure of Cepeda che Courc of Juíl:ice was dif- folved, there remaining no orher Judge at Lo; Reyn befides Cepeda ; and farcher to prevent che coming forch of orher Orders or Warrams, Pifarro carried che Roy- al Seal with him. And bec;aufe che City of Lo; Reye; was a place of greac impor- cance to hi:n, he thought fit to' confide it in the hands of fome fairhfull perfon, whom he could uuíl:, and accordingly made choice oLone Lor,enfo de Aldana, to · , \ hom he deleg1céd che Governmem of che Ciry, being a prudent, wi[e and dif- crect Gentlem.an, and one who was very rich, having a great Efiace and intereíl: in Areq11epa, with whom he Jefe eighc hundred men for guard and fafety of che Ci- ty; and Pi farro wem acrended wirh all the Inhabicams of the Cicy, and C~ntle­ men ,,...·ho ha::l anv command over the Jndians, and cook'fhipping in the monch. of Mt1rch i 545, and failed co Port Santa, which is about fifteen leagues from ·Tru- xillo, where he landed and remained' fome days uncill bis ocher Forces could come. up, becauie ic was a tin1e of che year when the pa'íturage was green and well gro·...,·n; bue Jeíl: he _fhould oppre!S and ~urchen ch~ Spaniard; by his Ion~ abode there, he removed hts Camp to the Provmce of Collique, where he remamed for fome rime, ·umill his Forces could come up to hirn '; and chen making a general Mufier of bis Men, it appeared on rhe Mufier-rolls that bis numbers amounced umu more than fix hundred men, Horfe and Foot: and chough the Vice-king - was equal in number, yer Pifarro had much che advancage boch in bis Arms and · preparations for War, and in bis Men, who were for the moff part vecerane Soul- diers, trained up to War, lud been in many Baccels, and feen rnuch of Aétíon; and belldes, they knew che Countrey and the difficulc paífages of ic, and were accuílomed co .the dangers and Iabours of War, and had been praélifetl"'clterdn Y y y y · ever