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 VII. R oyal Commentaries. 9'.H a Belly he could not ride on aGennet's Sadd le, \\'hich hath a high Pommel before, but as his occa fion ferved he rode oo a Mu le, with a Saddle low before, ufed for racing; though his bulk was fo burthenfome that he never eogaged himfelf in exercifes of Aétivity. And thougb in the Wars againíl Gonpifo Pip:irro he bad the command of a Troop of ,Horfe, it was 0 iven him as a reward for being iníl:ru- memal in furrender of the Fleet unto the Prefidem, and with it, afrer the War was ended, he was farther gratified with a good allotmeot of Larids wich vaíial- age of lt1dian1 thereunto belonging, as we have before mentioned : then as to his humour and manoers, be was the moíl: luxurious man in his dier, and rhe greateíl: glutton rhar ever was known; he was very pleafant and facerious in his converfa- tion ; he would tell fuch comical íl:ories, all of his own making, as were very de- lightfo ll ~ and, for want of better company, he would pur jeíl:s and tricks upon ~ ' his Pages, Lackeys and Slaves, and enterrain himfelf wich laughiog at rhem ' 1 cou ld here recount many of bis Jeíl:s, bur ler char of his Doublet país for a11, it. not being fir to intermix too many of th'efe trivial matters with others of more fe- rious and weighty importance. His Houfe was near to rny Father's, and rhere was fome kindred ami allianc;e between rhem ; for che Mother of my Lady Donna ;E.lena de FigHeroa, was of che Houfe of Feria, fo that rhere was grear ,intertomfe between the rwo Houfes, and they always called tnt;! Nephew: and afcerwards ii1 the year 1562. when we we1 e ar M adrid, and there occafionally difcourfing of tbe death of this 1Jnn Pedro, we repea tt~d and called to mind many of thefe particu- fars: which will ferve to fhew how improbable ir was that this Don Pedro, who Ji ved in alhhe plenty, eafe, and profperity that his beart could delire; fhould turn Rebel, and engagejn the defµerate Cauíe of Hernandez, Giron; for he far thé mofi: of rbe yea r lived in the Countrey with his Jndiam, and half a dozen good fellows with him, being merry wirhour thoughrs of Sta te q1auer, or black defigns of Re- bellion: fo thac bis whole deGgn of fending tbefe meffengers was onely to be truly infonned of ali particu!Jrs relating to chis Rebellion of Hernandez.,, how ma_. 11y, and who were the Citizens tbat were fled, and who were chofe who rernai- ned, and fided with the faétious parcy. For he and his Companions being refol- . ved to go to L~s. Reyc1, they tbought it neceífary w inforrn themfelves of ali rhings· ar Coz.co, fo as to give a diíl:inét account and not in a confu(ed blind 1i1anner, both on the way and ar Lo1 Reye1 when they arrived tbere: and co cake off ali fufpi- cion frorn the rneffengers whicb he feht to Hernandez., , he gave them Lecters ·of .credence, that he might permit them to return wirb che anfwer.· Then as to the Road ~owards Lo1 Reyes, J) on Pedro had well fecured it-; for Don Pedro's place of refidence, was feated fifreen Jeagnes on the way from Coz.co to Lb1 Reje1, che Ri-= ver Apurimac being between; of which when che Bridge was burnt, it cut off all paffige from tbe enemy: and thus Don Pedro and bis Companíons, haviñg recei- ved information of :ill they de[1red, tr-avelled fecurely to Lo1 Rijei, and ]aughed at the Rebels. The Orders given by Hernandcz. to [ohn Piedrahita, were to conduét che Gover.: · nour Gil Ramirn de Ava/01 with fix Mufquetiers, not by tbe \Vay of Lima, which ~s Northward, bur by the way of Amp1epa, .which is to the Sourh ; wirh fartber ln{huétions that .\vhen he had brought him ar the diíl:ance of forty leagues from the City, that he lhould then leave him ar liberty, and fuffer him to take his own cour[e and way as he pleafed : but.this journey of Piedrahita was not made with- in the time ofthe firíl: eight or ten days afrer the Iníurreétion, but forty days af- · terwards. And che c;aufe why the Governour was fent by the way of Arequepa, and nor by th~ direét way, was ro prolong bis journey to Los Reyn, and maké him to mifs the company of thofe Citizens who were going to Rimac. By all which it apµ e:irs, that the relations given to Diego Ffernandn of thefe rnatters, were as che vulgar fo rt repon them to be, who always [peak witb variety, andas tbey fanfie and defire things 'to be=, but what I have here faid, I kndw to be true, both having feen them, :rnd heard them from unclm1bted wirneffes,