winship] TRANSLATION OF CASTAXEDA 481 



inhabitants came out to welcome their governor and begged him uot to 

 enter the. town till the day after Easter. 



Chapter 8, of how the army enteral the town of Guliacan and therecep- 

 Hon it received, and other things which happened before the departure. 



When the day after Easter came, the army started in the morning to 

 go to the town and, as they approached, the inhabitants of the town 

 came out on to an open plain with foot and horse drawn up in ranks as 

 if for a battle, and having its seven bronze pieces of. artillery in position, 

 making a show of defending their town. Some of our soldiers were 

 with them. Our army drew up in the same way and began a skirmish 

 with them, and after the artillery on both sides had been tired they 

 were driven back, just as if the town had been taken by force of arms, 

 which was a pleasant demonstration of welcome, except for the artil- 

 leryman who lost a hand by a shot, from having ordered them to tire 

 before he had finished drawing out the ramrod. After the town was 

 taken, the army was well lodged and entertained by the townspeople, 

 who, as they were all very well-to-do people, took all the gentlemen 

 and people of quality who were with the army into their own apartments, 

 although they had lodgings prepared for them all just outside the 

 town. Some of the townspeople were not ill. repaid for this hospitality, 

 because all had started with fine clothes and accouterments, and as 

 they had to carry provisions on their animals after this, they were obliged 

 to leave their fine stuff, so that many preferred giving it to their hosts 

 instead of risking it on the sea by putting it in the. ship that had followed 

 the army along the coast to take the extra baggage, as I have said. After 

 they arrived and were being entertained in the town, the general, by 

 order of the viceroy Don Antonio, left Feruandarias de Saabedra, uncle 

 of Hernandarias de Saabedra, count of Oastellar, formerly mayor of 

 Seville, as his lieutenant and captain in this town. The army rested 

 here several days, because the inhabitants had gathered a good stock 

 of provisions that year and each one shared his stock very gladly with 

 his guests from our army. They not only had plenty to eat here, but 

 they also had plenty to take away with them, so that when the depart 

 nre came they started off with more than six hundred loaded animals, 

 besides the friendly Indians and the servants — more, than a thousand 

 persons. After a fortnight had passed, the, general started ahead with 

 about fifty horsemen and a few foot soldiers and most of the Indian 

 allies, leaving the army, which was to follow him a fortnight later, 

 with Don Tristan de Arellano in command as his lieutenant. 



At this time, before his departure, a pretty sort of thing happened 

 to the general, which I will tell for what it is worth. A young soldier 

 named Trugillo (Truxillo) pretended that he had seen a vision while he 

 was bathing in the river which seemed to be something extraordinary, 1 



'Compare the Spanish text for this whole paragraph. Xernaux renders this clause "feignant 'I i tre 

 tres-effrayi." 



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