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. Royal Commen~aríé1. .947 upon rhe rour nhev ha~ reie<lfed him ~ ,!:)lit chis piece or Treache""ry <lid noc p;rs un, - puni!ked ; for fome few days afcerwards, when -Perales was ac Coz.co wich che Lieutenant General Di'e¡,o de A/varado, Hernandez was informed cbat Peraús m¡ide !l,is braggs and boall~d .chat he had killed hlm; wh¡:reupon Hirn.tnde~ wrote to bis Lieatenanc to hang him, which .he accordingly performed , for 1 my felf faw him hanging on the Ga}lbws In that City. But ro r.eturn a,gain to che }3actel; Piedra- 1:i1;i 'obferNing theJear and confufion whkh wa·s i.o ~he Mar!hal's Camp, fallie.d .out of his Forc with áoouc fifty me_q , ctyiog ottt.ap9 Gngiog, V\lt:ory, Vitl:ory, and firing as chey went wherefoeveq hey_faw twenty or diiny in a company t<r gecher; all which yidded themfeJv'es wích c&eir ,Arms and l>owder, being d1at which chey moíl: needed ; and in this manner they :made Prifoµers of above three hundred men whom chey .carried with them, and who.duríl not depare from them or leave rhem, lell they íhould fall into another Parties hand,. who w,ould treat rhem worfe tbah chofe of Piedrahita's men to whom they had yielded chern- felves Prifoners. ,-_ C H A ·P. XVIII. Francifco Hernandez gains the Viéíory. The Marjhal and his Souldiers are put to jfight. The Indians ~in manj of them on .the. way. W.. HE N the -Mar!hal A/varado faw chat.rnany of qis Souldiers declined che · Fighc, and would not país the River; he in perfon led che way, i_n hop~s :to animare them to follow his Example: bue al~ his Cries and CaUs and Perfuafi- ons could avail norhing ; far they all fled before Piedrahita, who was now in hoc pur(uit of chem. Wherefore fome of che Maríhal'~ Friends told him, that it.was mvain to endeavour to íl:op the flighc of his Souldiers, being purfued by che E- nemy; for chac it was never known that ever any Army rallied again or íl:opped their courfe who had once curned their . backs to che Enerny , unlefs fome new fuccour appeared., or fom,e firange accidenc offered ic felf far cheir encourage- BOC · This being faid, che Mar!hal !hifced for himfelf and as many as could followed him, and che reíl: were fcaccered in divers tiarts where lhey chought they could beft have refuge: fome whereof ~ent to Arrq11epa, forne to che CharcM, others to che new Plancation , and H11amanca , and ochers trave!led along che Coaíl: co· ·join wirh bis Majefiy's Army under command of the Juíl:ices: fome few, not ex- ceeding feven Souldiers, returned co Co~co, o[ whorn we will give forne relation hereafter. · On the way, which was far and long, which chofe who fled from che Enemy were to pafs , che JndianJ killed many of the sp~niard1 , far they having no of: fenlive Arms with.them, were expofed to che merey of ali -chey mer. AmoQgíl thofe who were chus killed, was the Son of Don Pedro de A/varada, who was a perfon of great qualicy , of whom we have given a relation for.merly, and chac he broughc eight hundred meo· wich him into Peru : chis Gentleman was n~med Doi1 piego de A/varado, a Son worchy of fuch a Father ; and his untiQ1ely and anforcu- nate death was much lamenced 'by all thofe who had any acquaincance wirh his Father : Thac which induced che JndianJ to adventure upon chis infolence and cru- elty, was a Command given by the Officers of the Mar!hal's Forces, ( 1 íhall memion no man's name particularly) who fanfying to chemfelves an affurance of vilt:ory, in confidence thereof gave Orders to the Indians to kill all chofe whom chey íhould meet wanderi ng and flyin g out of the battel ; not expeaing rhat thi5 Conimand !hould fall on them felv.es, but on the Rebels onely whom they inten- ded cota!ly to deílroy : but it had a cóntrary effeét, and eighty of them were rnaífacred by the JndianJ. The number of chofe killed in che Battel and in che firfi day's Skinpifh was above an hundredand twenty, and (as PAientino. faich) E e e e ee 1. ' cwo