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.

'*"-' R0yal Commentariu. B'ooK V. ~~d ªmóag(l them was one C11r;:r!1, _ whom w,~ .ha;ve ~ormerly memtioned. One of the.Calonels, pamed Lu;s de R1 bera,, confül~rmg thar m cafe the J;l0tfemen w.<ne det?ched. by degrees and ordered to cqarge che F~ot; they would all be killed 011e af~er rbe orher,. befote they could be:; able ro come up to the Enémyi; and there- .f9re Ordersw.ere.given; t~at ch,ey lliould charge Pifarro's Horfe; who, feeing·the Enemy cowiog upon.tqe.m ; kept their ground, and fürred not on~ flen forward, ;is c(l,e Lieuceoanc Geqe,ral had direéte..d~ that the Mufque,riers mi~bt.not. Jofe dieír Shor, noo ádvamage of their Vollies, as the Enemy carne up to t!)em': ·bue ~hen he faw that .Centeno' s. Horfe hac.i paífed the right wing of the Fo.oc ; , he.&ben ad- vanced thirty paces forward, to receive·the diarge of che Enemy. , Cent eno's Horfe tidil)g upbn a ful! tror, over-bore Pifa r.rp' s Horfe, and trampled and trod them l,Jn,der foot, as if. they had, been (o·many Sheep, fo that (as Hiftor;ians agree, ancl 1 with chern) Meri ·and Horfe were,overchrown; and fcarce ten ,Men o( ¡¡JI cheir nurnbers remained who were not difmoumed. One of rhefe chus hardly befet was· Gonyafo-Pifit'rrp ·himfelf, who being fingle and divided from his Company,hafteneá up.ro i<;>itrwich¡his, Fo,or. Bue being known by rhree Cav.aliers of chief .QOle ;. cheY. fell upon him,with intent to kili him or take him prifoner : one of them w:~s · ~alled ,Fr1V1ci[co d'e Vlwa , another, MichaeL de Vergara, and che OEper, Gonfa/o Si!'l:féffre: This fatter affailed Pifarro'on the righc fide, Vergara on che Jefe ; and 'l_:)f/011 join~d with Vergara. Thefe two carne up fo· clofely to Pifarro , rh:it rhey gave him many Scabs imder che Ribs, but good Arms defended hi rn. M ichaeL t{r Vn;g~r~ · made' a IG1Ud Out-cry, and faid, ThisTraytor Pir_arro is my prize and my prifoner. In rhis manoer rhey all four purfued him , till he cam~ up co che F QOC;; bue rbe Horfe on which Gonf_afo Sifvcftre rode mofl: trpubled and endangered bim,· for, ,bfing a1nitnble Horfe andina full carriere, he carne fo clo(e up to him thar Sjlveff't:e rook h0ld of rhe Horfe's pectoral' and fl:opped him in his rnurfe~ which when Pi farro perceived , he rurned abour his body ro him, and wirh a íhort Cudace , which was .Ji.nged wich a Ribon on the wriíl: of his righc hand be g~ve ~bree Cuts upon h~Iorfe ;ene of which lighted ~pon his Nofe, and cu~ . off h1s L1ps, fo as the Teeth were Ía1d bare upon one fide; anocher Cut he .gave him over che Nofirils ; and rhe third took bim over the hollow of his righr eye, though wichout hure to his fight. And this Pir_arro perforrned with fo litc)e con- cernrnent, as if he had.been engaged in f ports of che Ring or orher feats of ArmS'. And this very fiory I heard from Gonfafo Si fveftre himfelf, who ofren amongíl: . other particulars of chis Batee! recounred chis paffage, and che f~me I have heard confümed by divers others. And that a1I four of them purfued him up to bis body of the f oot. r , CH A P. XX. . fhe Stmy of Íhe cruel Battel of Huarina i5 f arther conti- ·nued, feveral' Feats of Arms per¡fomzed therein. ' The Vic- tory i1 gained by Pic;arro. · W HE N che .Souldi~rs f~w him con:ing rhey knew hi!Il to be Pifarro, and charged w1th the1r Pikes to rece1ve and defend him. Silveffre percei- ving that he had not wounded P-ift1rro wirh ali che Srabs he had given him on bis lides; he fiopped bis hand, ano gave a Cut on che Blade-bone of his Horfe's Shoulder , but the wound was fo inconfiderable , that afcer thefe matters had paf- fed , ·añd the Wars were at an end ; chis particular was fcarce judged wonhy to be mentioned, leíl: it íhould accufe bis Arm of faintnefs and want of firength : but this fmall wound was again returned by 1 Pifarro'sSouldiers, who fallying forch to kili thofe who purfued him, wounded Gonfafo Silve.ftre's Horfo in che head wich a Lance, w bien made him rife up on encl; and tben another with his Lance ran Sitveflr~ himfelf through both his Arrns: the Horfe-wich che fmart of his Wounds flowndred •