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 V. Royal Commentariu. tainty as a man can hílve that was notan eye-witnéfs·; fo fix days 1 afc~¡ 1 this mat- ter happem"'d, I carne to the City with my linde [oJm de Varg111 anq with"Captain Rodrigo de Pantoja, andwith about nine Spaniards more, who q1;ne from a Planea~ tion about tb :y Le:.gues dííl:am from Couo, asdid alfo ali my fai.njly , wh9 ,fled fromPipirro's par y, and a ·1 for refüge co thar City, with intent.tp, bx_füh:d in Ms Majeíly's fervice : but I and my brother followed them, and th ~ nex~. c!ay;af- t-er I carne. thither I was Sroughr to kifs DiegoCenteno's oaods; . and .I .remembei.: bis left-hand was lr.:iu.,d up in a piece of black TaffeJ»~• and thou~b he wa~ wounded in the Thigb, yet he feemed not very lame wi~l¡i ic; for. 1 o5(~rve9, he was íl:anding upon bis Legs : he was' lodged in rhe Houfe of Fernando,• Bachicaq, which now.belorigs to DonLe.wis Palomina,: Ali whi!::h bJIJ'peoed fo~m~ f~w days afrer che Féaíl: o the moíl: Holy Sacramenr, in che year 1 ~ 47• And we have fi- nifüed.the 'Hill:ory hereof about che famei momh, in che y~ti · 160). and do con- firm che truch chereof, which 1 faw with tpy own eyes. Ali the Fighc wasfriendly, and rather in words than aótions; for bad they been in.earneíl:, as.Hiíl:orians fay, fourty eight men fo ifl armed ,as -thefe w.ere, whof~ c:hief Arms.were opely Daggers faíl:nedr to the end of Scaves,, wol)ld have had a.: cfüficult cask, to have engaged againíl: three hundrnd.men all well armed and: difdplined, as thofe were under the cmpmand•of Antóniw;J~Jigble.{. _ Captain Antonio de Robles, being tlrus defoated and abánooned by his Souldiers, fled for Saµóhuary into che CQnvent of Saint Hranci,, which in thofe days was oo the Eaíl: fide of che City' and not where;it now is..: . from.whence Diego <;enw1q fenr the n~xt day to bring de Robles to him,'irlOtl w.ith dehgn to kill him, 'for be was a perfon ofa genrle temper, and not bloudy, but to perfuade him to fer~e-his Majeíl:y. But Antonio de Robles (as Carate reports o f hi_r: ri'}, w~s él Y.-ouGh, ·aod of no greac underílandiog, aod behaved himfolf as iC hf:! b.ad ~~fülhCornman.der iQ Cbief of che City, utteri1 g rnany infolent Say,ings in-favoun<>.f Bi;.arró's' Rár~y, and r-efleéting wivh fome difgracefull t~rrns on 'the·fewice of; ~isMajefty_ :_ atiwhich Dieg¡ a Centeno beiog greátly otfen~ed, fent rto ta~e @ff &is1~eqd ;5 , aio.d -(lb°©ega he w.as ' íufificieotly provoked to Lla~e hanged him, ~as it V¡¡aS1gene.rally_ belmtie~I: be wou ld). yenbeing a Gentleman, he was femenced to .a rn..o re.hooo.uJ.able death. l'bofe who.were well affeétedJto Bifamls PartY,~ cóh.v.dy' .ed tbemfelves.a.way iri ~he Right, and witb great expeditiotl travelled to Rimac; wh e11é they 0rougb11 che 1livfr ne·ws t© llifarro. of the lofs of Antonio de Robles and ·lni~ .meib at €o~c?. ri iwlilicli ~hough ill news, and deep1y refented by .Bifarr:o, yec he.rG<D.Y'J?f,ed,and difi(¡mbled lfiis troub:le .for a time, and gave out his Orders and Comrnábds fu. fueh rnábner a.s we íh<!!ll dealare hereafcer : bue fo foon. as th€ news of. che ..Yiéto~ w b,id1 E>iegó <Centeno hád gained had fpread it felf in che Coun\!;ies., , ali tfui>fe ·p.fiople:~ w.ho w.eie abfconded, and had bid themfelves in pavés about fpny¡ ·,0 difr}I leagues ro.un d, re- turned c0 Co:{.co in great nurnbers, amongfi:, which w.ere .dillers. p.erfonS! óf.qúali.Lyi, and Souldietls of honour and fame, who, ;joyning witm· :dnbfe in Co¡:,co,. fü:íned· a B dy of five hundred meo, who with comrrlon.c011feht freely abofe l>i.Pt,oiCetJÚJIP to be tbeir Comrnander in Chief; who accorclingly ,gavé ouo Cqn\miilions both for Horfe and Foot to feveral Captains, whofe narries we iliaU mencion when we come to: r~lare che Batee! of H1u~rina. · · 1 ' ~. , : So foon as General Centeno had reformed 'his. Forc~, he returned fo (Jol(M wich defign to fall upon Alonyo de Mendofa ( wh0 \\las app0imedl <5©v.ernour 1 dfi .t.lie' Gi- ty of Plate by Gonfalo Pif~r,,o) and'to reduce him ~o obedienqró'f fü.is.Majelty ei- ther by fair or foul means. '·. · ".., , ·· ' ' The news of Centeno's füccefs at Co:{,co reached to the City of Arequepa in a very íhort time, where a certain Captain refided, called LucM Martín Vegaf[o an inhabi- tant of that City, and fent thitber by Gonfalo Pifarro afrer che BatteLof ~itu for Governour of che place. This Captain naving notas yet received intelligence of what had paífed at Co:t:..co, refo!ved to bring an hundred :md thirty men with him to Pivmo to ferve him in hisCamp; b~r being on his march fome few leagues from the City, bis own meo who went unwillingly upon that fervice, delired him to turn to the King's Party, but he íhewing an averfion'thereunco tbey feifed upon him, and kept hirn prifoner, that he íhould not fly from thern, nor leave chem. . So foon as they were returoed to Arequepa they received news of all that Di1go Centeno haddone, and being all Friends and ínti_macely acquainted, they perfuaded LucM Martin to change his rnind and Parcy, and co ferve his Majefiy, and co doe . Ggggg z chat 779