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.

. Royal Commentaries. BooK V. his death he was not concerned in it ; but he having oppreffed the people, and put many to deach wichout eicher Reafon or Law, was in revenge chereof killed by thofe whofe Kindred; Friends and Relacions were murchered by him. If chofo Meífengersand Miniíl:ers·he fent to his Majefiy to render hirn an accounr of che fiare of his Affairs here ( whQ were the Men who fold and betrayed him ) had been adrnitted and impartially heard, no doubt but his Majefiy would have ac- cepced his fervices, and taken other counfels and meafures than whac now appear: für whacfoever he aéled then was ac the perfuafion and with the concarrence of che Inhabitants and Reprefentativés of the feveral Cities ; and was made to be- líeve .by Judges and learned Counfellours, c.hac what he aél~d was agreeable to Law and Equity. , To which che Preíident made -anfwer, That he had íbewed him(elf very un- gracefull and undeferving che gratious favour of his Majeíly towards his Brother che Marquis, whom he had enriched, and, with all bis Relacions, had rai(ed from che duíl: to eminent degrees ofWealth and H~mour; and char as to che difcovery of the Coumrey, he himfelf had contributed noching thereunto. ·Wel!, teplied Pi¡arro, then lec my Brorher have the fole honou'r of this DifcoverY., yec ir can~ not be denied brit thac he had need of the help and affifütnce of all che four Bto- thers,, togecher with the aid qf all our Family, and of fuch as were allied to it. The favour which his Majefiy íhewed to my Brother c-0nfified onely in a bare Title wichout Efiate or Revenue th.ereunto belonging : and if any one íhall fay the comrary, I defüe them to affign the place where fuch .Eíl:a't'e or Revenue r~ mains. And to fay that we wer e raifed from the duíl:, feeins fomething hatíh and llránge, for ir is well kno.wn that we entred Spain with the Goths, and have been·Gemlemen f?r many Ag~s of an eminent and ancient Fa~ily. · ·His Maje(l:y ac;cording to his w11l and pleaiure may beflow Offices and placesofTruíl: on men of obfcúre originals, and raife them from the duíl: "vho were born in it: And if we were poor we fought our forcune through che world, and by our induftry we acquired chis Empire, which we have prefented to hisMajeíl:y, though we might have appropriated che fame unto our felves, as others have don'e who have been the Difcoverers of new and unknown Coumries. · The Prefident, angred at thefe fayings, cried out twice with a loud voice, Talte him away, take him away, Tbi~ Tyrant is che fame to day as he was yefierday: then DiegoCenteno carne and took him into his cuíl:ody, having (as we bave fa.Id) defired that Office of the Prefident. The ocher Captáins were fen,c ro different places, to be kept under fafe Guards; but Frdncifco de Carvajal; though an aged man of eighcy four years, out of a natural delire .to prolong life, ·made his ~fcape and fled : he was moumed on a Horfe of a light Chefnut colour, and fomething old ; 1 .knew him, and that he was called Bofcanillo ; he was a w'ell-íbaped Horfe and had been excellently good in his time : and being now to pafs over a natro~ Stream or Brook (as there are many in chaeCountrey) he haíl:ily plunged down a Bank of eighc Foot deep to the Water, an~ on the ocher fide ' ir was as high ro get up, and very rocky, fo that having paíled over he laboured much to afcend che Bank : Carvajal, being old ~nd corp'ulent, could give no help to ·his Horfe.; for if be had onely beld by bis Main he had goc .over bue f waying too much u¡r on one fide, he pulled the Hor[e apon him, and both of them fell cogethér. into the Brook, and lle under his Horfe; in which condition bis own Souldiers feifed and took him and carried him away prifoner to che Prefident, in hopes by fuch a prefent and piece of fervice to obcain cheir own Pardons. 1. C H..A P. , .