Chap; IV. *A M E%^1 C A, ^ 9 



fmall Neck of Land nam'd Peru, from which it is moft probable that great King* 

 dom afterwards receiv'd its Denomination, though many deduce it from the River 

 Jieru, as before mcntion'd : Thence Sailing to the maiu Continent of Peru, and Great pm- 

 Landing, he loft feveral of his Men, and being himfelf defperately wounded, re- pawa* «f 

 turn'd with ill fuccefs, whileft Jlmagro miffiog of him, Landed afterwards in the 

 fame place, and alfo loft feveral of his Men, and one of his own Eyes : yet not 

 long after they renewed their Defign, carrying with them in two Ships and three 

 Boats, three hundred ftout Men, which all fuflfer'd extream Hunger, and had they 

 not happily gotten fome Sea-Crabs, they had without doubt all of them perifli'd : 

 at laft Landing on the Coaft of Qatamez^ they were Encountred by a People whole 

 Faces were hung full of Golden Nails, and daily loft more and more of their Men ; 

 upon which ill Succeffcs the new American Vice*Roy forbad the farther difcovery of 

 Peru y and call'd home the remaining part from the Ifland Gallo, Co that Pi^arro kept 

 with him but twelve Men, with whom he went to the dcfolate Ifle Gorgona,%mheTe 

 he liv'd on Sea-Snails, till he receiv'd Provifions from Panama - after which they 

 fpent two years in making farther Difcoveriesupon the Coafts of Peru : During 

 which time he vifited the Queen Qapullana, and difcover'd a mighty Palace, where 

 three of the twelve Men were kill'd, whole Memory defer^cs to live for ever, be- 

 caufe the World owes to their unheard-of Valor the Difcovery of the mighty King- 

 dom of Peru ; but there are onely left Recorded the Names of thofe nine Worthies 

 who furviv'd that Exploit, which were thefe following, Nicholas de Pjyera, Peter it 

 Candia, Juan Torre, AlonzptBrifeni, Qhrtjlophero Peralca, Alon^p de Tru^iUo, Francifco Cuelm 

 lar, Alon%> Molina, and the* Pilot Sartholomeo Q{uy%, : With thefe nine Pi^arro Landed 

 on the Iflc Puna, inhabited by a valiant People, who us'd Bowes, Darts, Silver 

 Knives, and Pikes tipt with Gold: From thence he ftcer'd lus Courfc unto the 

 Haven Tumbe^, where Peter de Candia Landing, was met by forty ^ioufand of the In- 

 habitants, who conducted him to the Temple of the Sun, built by the IngaGuayna* 

 cava, and adorn'd in the in-fide with Golden Plates. Not long after which Piz&r- «(«» made 

 ro was by an Order from the Spantfb Court made Governor of Peru, to the great >««,' 

 difcontent of Almagro^ which Difference being decided, Pi^arro fct out again with 

 two hundred and fifty Foot, befides Horfe, with which he Landed a hundred 

 Leagues lower than before, where he got a great Mafs of Gold and fome Emeraulds 

 of the Qafiaue, all which he fent to Panama, thereby to ftir up the People to come to 

 Peru to his affiftance ; where thofe that were at prcfent on the Place, befides other 

 great Hardfhips which they fuffer'd, were miferably plagued with Ulcers in their 

 Faces ; yet they profecuted their Conqueft as well as they could with what fmall 

 Power was left them, and had newly taken fuerto Viejo when Captain !BeValca%ar 

 and Juan Flore^ brought frefh Supplies of Men and Horfe ; with which Recruit 

 (Pi^irroconquer'd the Valley of Tumbe^ from whence they Sail'd over; to the Ifland 

 Punas, where the friendly Entertainment they met with at firft,turn*d foon after in- 

 to a bloody Battel : for the Spaniards not forbearing to pric into every Houfe, and 

 committing many Outrages, were fet upon by the Natives, whom having at laft 

 fubdu'd, and being again fupply'd with new Forces by Ferdinando Sotto from Nicara- 

 gua, they return'd to Tumbe^, where the Countrey was all in Arms upon the Report 

 of the Spaniards Cruelties committed on the Ifland Pun*, infomuch that they Offcr'd 

 all thofe whom they took alive to their Gods,and flew as many as they could con- 

 veniently meet with. Pi^arro having ftay'd about twenty days,went with his Bro- 

 thers jfo<w and Gonfalves, the Captains Sotto and BeValca^ar, and fifty Horfe over the 

 River Jmbato about Mid-night, through a thorny Way betwixt Mountains, and 

 about Break-of-day fell upon the Tumbe^an Army, and having fetleithings pretty 



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