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 VI. Royal CommentarÚs. defüed revenge he adventured one Monday at noon ro encer into the Houfe of Efqu~v_el, a~d h~ving wa~ked for fome time in the yard below; and ~n 0e Gallery above, and hav1ng ,p_aífed throµgh a Hall and a Chamber, and entnng meo an irt• ward Chamber ·wl"iere he kept his J3ooks, he found him there íleeping wich one in his hand, apcl rc¡:q1¡11ing fofcly to ,him, he fiabb'd him with his Dagger through the righc Temple of his head,. and gave him chree or four 11abbs more into the Body, not wher~ the ~oat ofMail covered him, bue in che op<ming of his Clothes. Afrer ~hich Agu!ri returned by che fame way char he came, and being come to ·che füeec poor¡ 1i;nif[tog his I-~¡¡_c he had che courage ro recura again and fecch i4 ~nd tnerewith wellJt@ut inco rh13 füeec, and walked like amad-man wirhout fenfe or ¡udgcrient, neyer tfí!nking to _cake .Sanétuary in che Church, bue walked dpen- ly m ~n~ fireet~ tmvards Sr. Frq~cifco, where ·was a Convenc Eaíl:-ward from che great qmrch ; neicber did he ca~e refuge chere, but W·andrir¡g chrough a flreec on thé lef~ hand, he' méjd~, a fiop ar_che place whére a_Foundation was laid for the Coñvent of St. r.J~'f!.e; and in a liccle Alley ctiereaboucs he mee cwo young Gencle- men, .1Gnfmen co Ro_drigo de Penedq,! to whom he faid, hide 1 me, hide me, with- out being able ro fay gne worcj rnQr~, but loo~ed like a m an f rancick and out of his wits. The G~nd~rnen, who ·knew his dif¡;onc~nc, and h.is delire of revenge 5 ~sked him, Wbecher, he had ,killed Efquivel? To which Ag uire an(wered, Yes, hide me, hide me. 1 J Theq che Genclemen carried him imo che Houfe of a Kinf- man of cheirs where were thr~~ baf:k yards, in the farchermoíl: of which there was a kind of a St.ie, where chey facced their Hogs and Poulcery at the cirne of year, and chere chey ,concealed him, ordering him, by no ·rneans to go out of thaé place, .or íh~w ~ís heªd abroad. As to the back yarqs, they fecured chem in that manner that no Indilins íhould go .in, having no bufinefs to .~oe there ; and they, tola him, that he íhould not neecl to take care for Viétuals 1 for they would make a provifion for hifT) r: ';Vhich they .according\y ·did, for dining and fuppin¡plways in ene Houíe of their Kinfrnan, .chey would privately at every mea! ílip Bread and Meat into their Pockets; wich which, upon precence of going to the back-fide on their neceífary occ~fioris, chey relieved chis -poor Aguire in his Hog-íl:ie, and in ibis manner chey fed and rnaintained him far the fpace of forcy.days. So foon as che Mayor or Governour heard of che death of Efquivel he commah- cled the Bells to be rung out ; and the lndiañs of Ca11nari1 were fet for Guards and Sentinels at che Gaces of the Cicy, and ac che door of che Convencs; and Proclama- tion was rnade, that no man íhould go out of che City wichout a Pafs.or Licenfe obtained from che Governour, and fearch was made in ali Conveocs, and che corners of them, chat nothing could be more diligencly performed, unlefs chey would have pulled them down. This Watcb and W ard continued in che Cicy for tbircy days; without che lectft news of Aguire, as if he had been fünk under ground. At length, wearied with a fruiclefs fearch, che Sencinels and Guards were taken off from che Cicy; bue howfoever a Warch was concinued on che High-ways, and maintained wich a firiét examinacion of all chat paífed. At che end of forty days, chefe Gemlemen, called Sa11tiflan and Caranno, boch of noble extraétion, ( wich whom I was acquainced, and mee one of chem in Seville when I arrived fuíl: in Spain) thought fic to free chemfelves from che danger which chey incurred by concealing Aguire; for tbey knew chat che Judge was a fevere man, and would have no merey on chem in cafe che matcer were difcovered; whereup- . on they agreed t<:> carry him publickly out of che City, and noc by any prívate conveyance; che manner was chis, chey fhaved his head and hi~ beard, and wa- ilied his facei head, neck, hands and Arms, and from cop to cde, and cl~anfed .him wich water, _and chen fmeared him over with a fort of wild Fruir, caUed by the Indians Y'itoc, which is not good to eac, or for any other purpofe onely dies with that black lme, that being lefr on for three or, fout days, and afrerwards wafhed over chree or four times more, it leaves a black deeper chao that of an Ethiopian, and which will not be wafhed off again wich any water, umill it be- . gins to wear away, which ir will doe in éen days rime, and chen will waíh off with che rine of that which gives che tinéture: In chis manner rhey coloured chis wretch Aguire, and clothed him in poor habit, like a Councrey Nef!.:oe ~ and with this difguife they wenc out openly aboat noon day chrough che pubhck fireecs and Markec-place, wich che Negroe Ag1tire rnarching befare cbem wich a Gun on his .Shoulders, and one of the Maíl:ers carried another before him on rhe Pomel of bis Saddle, and the other hada Hawk on bis fiíl, as if they had been·goiog afrer · · their