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Party to countenance and aid him,yet he found refiftance in many places, not with* 

 Atmigfm- out the lols of many Men on both fides. In which Tundture the Learned Vacca de 



tcrJy defeat- * •* 



tcJ/hT* £»/?w Landed in Pew, with a Commiffion from the Emperor to fettle the divi- 

 ded Kingdom of Peru in Peace and Quiet . but the young Almagro mad to fee 

 his Ambition thus crofs'd, gave Battel to Caftro in the Plain of Chupas ; the Difpine 

 was long and refolute on both fides, and the Night coming on made the Fight the 

 more terrible, in which the Victory inclin'd to Cajiro • however the Almagrians flood 

 to it ftoutly for a great while, and that chiefly through the valor of the Captains 

 Balboa and Chrijlophei Lofa, who breaking in amongft the Cajlreans, hacked and hew'd 

 down all they came near, till at laft they were fore'd to betake themfelves to flight, 

 .and "had not many of them exchang'd their white Scarfs with the red of theflain 

 Cajlreans, fcarce any of them had efcap'd from being kill'd in the purfuit, and moil 

 p2 r ner d b y p of them tnat did c f ca P e werc ^^ the next Morning by the Peruvians. %odrigo Sala- 

 BSed. and ^* r > Almagro $ Deputy, delivered up his Lord to Qajlro,vt\io condemned him to death, 

 whereupon he was immediately Beheaded with a Sword. This Battel hapned on 

 the twenty fixth of September Anno 1542. when it Froze fo hard the following Night, 

 that moft of thofe that were left wounded upon the place, were frozen to death. 

 Thus Cajiro began his Government with Bldod, and made it his firft Bufinefs to 

 make a Difcovery by feveraiof his Captains, whom he fent for that purpofe, of the 

 Countreys lying Eaftward from Peru, lying upon the great River 'Dela Plata, and 

 the River Marannon, where in moft places they met oncly with falvage People, and 

 for the moft part Man-eaters . and in one place where they Landed, a great Fifli re- 

 fembling a Dog came afliorc and kill'd feveral Arm'd Soldiers. A year and a hxl[ 

 Capo had liv'd in Cufco, when at the arrival of the Vice-Roy Bldfcus lS(pwc^ Vela, 

 all things were turn'd topfie-turvy, he being fent thither by the Emperor Charles the 

 Fifth, accompanied by four Cduncellors, Diego Sepada, Li/on Tejada, Juan Jlvare^, 

 and Peter Orti^ y to curb the Spaniards Villanies and Outrages committed againft the 

 Peruvians, tntxtd Turnkey Anno 1 544. where he immediately publifh'd the Emperor's 

 Edi&s, which were to this effeft : 

 5?, j£S* AU Peruvians are to be released from Slavery \ no Spaniard jhull in the leaji opprefithem, 



Bf55J? mr make u f e °f their Servke without rewarding them for the fame, nor take any Provifions of 

 Indians. ff )em without paying for it* 



in rented This Proclamation was like to put the Spaniards into an uproar : for at that 

 hy *csp*ni- t i me * Peruvian Lord wis fore'd to allow every Foot=Soldier three Slaves, and a 

 Horfcman five, befides Hens, Rabbets, Eggs, the Wine A%un, and other Provifions, 

 for nothing. The general Complaints were, Is this the Reward for our Servke which 

 Toe, have fhewn to the Emperor ? Is not this mighty Kingdom of Peru by our Stood and Labor 

 joynd to the Imperial CroWn > Our Shoulders are grown fore under our Arms, our Bodies made 

 ujeleji 'with Wounds, and our Limbs lamed with Bruifes. Who fh all maintain our Wives and 

 Children, if the Peruvians, who according to the Law of Arms are become our Slaves, fhouli 

 not be fore'd toff? for Pearls in the Sea, and dig us Silver out of the Mines, and do us other 

 Service for to maintain us > But Vela being deaf to thefe Complaints, relolv'd that the 

 Emperor's Commands fliould be fulfill'd, and that thofe that fpake againft them 

 fliould lofe their Lives : and that he might terrifie the generality with the punifli- 

 ment of a few, he caus'd Fryer Peter of the Order of the Virgin Mary to be Execu- 

 ted in Truxillo, Cajiro to be committed to Prifon at Lima, becaufe he had put Almagro 

 to death without Examination, and fliut the Gates of Cufco when his Agent came 

 before the fame. But do what he could, the Spaniards generally making Head, ut- 

 terly refus'd to obey the Emperor's Edifts, and chofe Gonfalvo Pi^arro for their 

 General, who rais'd five hundred Men in compleat Arms in Cufco, from whence he 



march'd 



