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 Commentaries. ihould return, and furpr ize them, but they contri ved to lodge alroaether wüh fome few Souldiers, which they had brought with them, and for~fied t hem- felves in the Houfe of John P.mcoroo, to which there was no entrance, or atcefs, by any back paffage, but~mly by the Fore-gate of the principal Street; and at c~e d1ftance of feven or e1ght paces froni the Gate, they raifed upa Breaft-work, . yrtth Looir-fuoles to fhoot out at with their Mufquets, by which they could fire tnto three Streets, one on the right hand, and the ·orher two on the fid~ where they remained ali night in fecurity , having placed their Centinel; in ali Avenues leading towards the Houfe: 1 was with them ali the night, and was fent three or four times with Meffages to che Neighbol)rs Houfes. The next day, being in my Father's Court-yard, about 3 a dock in the Af- ternoon., 1 faw Pero Hernandez. the Loyal, come galloping in at our Gate, . on hi_s Borfe Paxarillo'; at which 1 was fo over-joyed, that, without fpeaking to him, 1 ran in to my Father to.carry him the gooq news; on notice of which, my Father inftantfy ran to meet him, and they both embraced .with great kind- nefs: And Pero cold him, that the <lay befare the Rebels mar.ching, fomething more than a League from the City :, he took an occafion , on pretence of fome neceilities of Nature, to go ~fide from them, and taking towards the 'lefc hand of the.way amongft fome high Rocks, he bid himfelf there for a while, · and then climbed up the Mountain, whence feeing.the Rebels ata difl:ance, he rnade his efcape, and wascomethither. After which he went with my Father to the King's Army, and there ferved until the end of the War, and· then returned back again with my Lord Garfilaf{o into Coz..co. Of ali which 1 was anEye Wit- nefs, andas fuch have give is faithful ·Relation. . . . . CH A P. XXIV. ·His Maje/fíes Camp enters into Cozco, and froni .thence mar- ches forwards: An account isgiven how the Indians carried the Train of Artillery on their Shoulde;s. P art of the Amu- . nition arrives •at the Royal Army.. T fl E third day afrer the Citizens had made a vifit to their Relations and Conceraments in the City, the Royal Camp made their Entry wich the Troops and Companies in good arder. The Infantry drew up in che Chief Place or Square, and the Horfe skirrnifhed with the F9oc, according to tbe ' Rules of Miliqlfy Difcipline, and both chatged each other with handfome Vol- lies, and quick Fire; forthe Souldiers were .pecome .very ,read'y and expert at their Arms. And though Palentino faíth, that Don Phelipe de Mendofa, who was General of the Ordnance, broµght his great Guns into the Parade, and fired them feveral times, and tliat thc Mufquetiers, marchÍng the Ronnd, made fe- . veral handfome Vollies; but herein this· Writer was much miftaken, as· he hath' been in many other Paffages ; for the Artillery could .not be eaf.ily fixed, and put in arder, fo as to be ufed at every mm, and unneceífary occafion ; for they were not drawn on ~heir Car_riages, but carried on t~e Indians Shoulders, and chat with fo much d1fficulty, that to manage eleven p1eces of Cannon only with their Carriages, was che work of ten thoufand Indiam : 1 my felf faw them brought into Cor-co, and was then in the place when they were again car- ried out ; and the manner how they mannaged them was this. . Every piece of Ordnance was faftned to a large Beam of about forty foot rn Jength ; under chis were fi xed feveral crofs Bars, about the bigneís of a Mans Arm at two foot afunder, and of aqout half a yard long on each fide the Bea~ ; under which two Jndians were pla.ced, one o~ on_e fide, and one on the other, afrer the manner that the Palanquines are carned m Spam. The bur- t he'n they carr ied was l'aid on their Shoulders clofe to t heir Necks, where they · ' wore 959