Chap. III. AMERICA. 



The Emperor Qharles turmoil'd with Wars at home, favv no likelyhood to 

 fettle the confus'd Affairs of Peru > y yet at laft he thought it convenient to fend 

 one Peter Gafca thither, an Ecclefiaftick, of a fubtile and ingenious Wit, who 

 landing Anno 1546. in Lima, jtvith no other Title than Chief Councellor to the Em* 

 peror, took quite another courfe than Vela, perfwading them all, that Affairs 

 fliould be fetled in order, according to their own defires, and former Mifcar- 

 riages never be remembred, being utterly deleted by an Act of Oblivion. 



The News of this General Pardon fpreading it felf far and near, wrought 

 a great change ; for Pi^arro's Intimates, and thofe neareft of Concern, fhrunk 

 daily from him -, which Gafca obferving, march'd againft him ■ and that they 

 might make the more hafte, they loaded feveral Peruvians, chained, with their 

 Arms, whom when they lagg'd, they fwitch'd and whipp'd before them. And 

 now both Armies being met, and difcharging their Cannons at one another, 

 with confiderable lofs to each fide, whole Regiments came running over to 

 Gafca j fo that Pi^arro being quite forfaken, yielded himfelf to the mercy of 

 the Conqueror, who accused him of High Treafon, and caused him to be 

 ftrangled in a Dungeon, and fix'd his Head on a Marble Pillar in Lima, envi- 

 roned with Iron Rails, and infcrib'd with a brief Account of all his Offences. 

 But Gafca not thus fatisfied, hang'd up feveral Commanders,and whipping and 

 ftigmatizing others , condemn'd them after to the Gallies : But his greateft 

 fpight was againft the Field-Marflial CarVayales, a Perfon of the Age of four- 

 fcore years, whom tying to a Horfes Tail, he caus'd a whole Hour to" be 

 drawn up and down the Market-place, fcorn'd and derided of all People 5 

 which done, he was quartered alive. 



Not long after Gafca furrendred the Command of Peru to the Learned (jan* 

 ca, and carried an unvaluablc Treafure to Germany, for the Emperor Charles, 

 who gave him in requital for his faithful Service, the Bifliopriek of Valentia. 



103 



Gxfc*i murderous Ex- 

 ploits. 



Gottfalves Piwrro Aran- 

 Sled. 



Cruelty ut'd on Carvaj* 

 alts. 



Sect. XII. 



The Expeditions of John Stade, and Nicholas Durando Villegagnon. 



A Bout the fame time that Gafca arriv'd in Spain John Stade had the Command 

 * •*" over afmall Fort rais'd of Stone and. Earth, on the Ifland Maro, adjacent 

 to Brafile, becaufe the Salvage People of Tupin Imha fail'd twice a year from 

 the Countrey of Brikioka, to Maro, at the time when the Plant Ahbati was ripe, 

 of which they made the Liquor that they generally drink at their Humane 

 Banquets : They alfo landed on Maro about the Bratti-Fittiiag. This Bratti 

 is a Fifli of a very delicious tafte, either caught in Nets, or fhot by the Tupin 

 Imha, and carried to their feveral Habitations. Againft thefe People Stade kept 

 a continual Guard, when Heliodorm Heffc, Son to Eohanus Heffe, the famous 

 Latin Poet in Germany, came to vifit him. Stade to entertain his Gueft the bet- 

 ter, went into the Woods to hunt for Venifon, where he was taken by the Tupin ni *>* d$ &*« tythccw 

 Imha, of which the King march'd in the ^ear with a great Palm -Tree Club, 

 and carried him towards the Sea fide, that he, with others that waited on the 

 Shore, might make up a I(aivewipepicke (that is, A Feaft of %ofied Men) But be- 

 caufe Stade being a German of a large Body, well-skinn'd, young, plump and 

 fat, they all concluded to fpare this Dainty, and carry him alive to Brikioka, 

 that with fucha Banquet they might highly carefs their Wives : But the Jour- 

 ney being long, and a juft melancholy polfefling him with fear, and the terror 



of 



His ftrange Entertain- 

 ment amongtt thtra. 



