Chap. IIL ^ P E R U and CHILI. 145 
with a full Account of all that he had feen. By which thus this great Affair was finilhed much to the Satisfac- 
it plainly appeared, that the Riches of this Country very tion of our Adventurer, who found himfelf veRed v/ith 
far exceeded even the Reports they had received concern- a legal Authority to purfue his Conquefis, which was all 
ing them. For he declared, that he had feen their public he wanted, and no lefs to the Satisfaftion of the Court, 
Edifices ereded with wonderful Art and Skill, and fo which gained thereby a Profpcd of annexing another 
exceffively rich, that the very Walls of them were co- Empire to their Dominions in America^, without being at 
vered with Gold and Silver, with many other Things of any Expence. It may not be amifs to remark here that 
the like Nature. the Spaniards had a Felicity in making their Conquefts, 
After hearing this Man’s Relation, they held a kind of which never attended any other Nation ; fince neither 
Council amongft themfelves upon the prefent State of Columbus.^ Cortes^ Balboa^ or Pizarro^ who brought fo 
their Affairs, and unanimoufly agreed, that the wifeft many Millions of Piftoles into the royal Coffers, ever 
Courfe they could take would be to return all together to received fo much as a Marvedy i Vom thence towards the 
Patiama^ where they made no Queflion that the News Char^;e of their refpeftive Expeditions, 
of fuch important Difeoveries would effectually reftore 7. When Francis Pizarro had received his Commif- 
their Affairs, and procure them fuch Supplies, as fions of the Tenor before-mentioned, he repaired to his na- 
would enable them to profecute their Defign with all the tive Town of Fuxillo in EJireniadura^ in order to raife 
Succefs imaginable. This Refolution once taken, they Forces, and to vifit his Family, of which it may not be 
proceeded to put it in Execution j being thoroughly fatif- amifs to fay fomething farther in this Place. His Fa- 
iled that in the Situation they were in, they could un- ther Gonzalo Pizarro^ firnamed Phe Long, becaiife he was 
dertake nothing ; and that by remaining upon this 
Coait, they Ihould lofe all their Men by degrees, and 
thereby bring an irretrievable Difgrace upon the ProjeCt, 
which would not only ruin themfelves, but difeourage all 
future Attempts of this Nature. 
6. Upon the Return of Francis Pizarro to Panama, 
with many indubitable Proofs of his Difeoveries, it oc- 
cafioned a vaft ftir in that Colony j for thofe who had 
before derided this ProjeCt as abfurd and impracticable 
were now convinced of their Error, and that it was like- 
ly to prove a much more conliderable Difeovery than 
any hitherto made by the Spaniards yet the Oppofition 
made by the new Governor to his levying Men for the 
carrying on his Defign, and fome other Accidents, 
made it evident, that it would be impoffible for him or 
his AiTociates to proceed farther, without the Affiftance 
of a fuperior Authority. It v/as therefore agreed by 
them all that Pizarro fhould go in Perfon to Spain, in 
order to obtain the necelfary Powers from the Crown, 
for removing all thofe Difficulties ; and it was likewife 
agreed, that he ffiould follicit for himfelf the Title of 
Governor ; for Almagro that of Adelantado, or the 
King’s Lieutenant ; and for Lugne, the ProteCtorffiip of 
the Peruvians, and the firft Biffiopric of that Country. 
Pizarro accordingly fet fail, and, arriving in Spain, proceed- 
ed to the Court of the Emperor Charles V. which was then 
at Poledo \ here he met with a very gracious Reception, 
on his prefenting his Imperial Majefty with fome Peru- 
vians in their proper Habits, two or three Peruvian 
Sheep, and feveral Gold and Silver Veffels and Utenfils 
of the Faffiion of the Country. 
The Emperor was pleafed to hear him relate the Dif- 
ficulties he had met with in thefe three Years Voyage ; 
and in the End referred the Overtures he made to 
the Council of the Bidies ; who having framed their Re- 
port, Pizarro was ordered to proceed in the Conqueft of 
Peru for the Space of two hundred Leagues to the South- 
ward of Pu 7 nbez, which lies at the Bottom of the Bay of 
Guiaquil : He procured alfo the Title of Governor and 
Captain-General to be conferred on him for Life, with 
the Offices of Adelantado, or Lord-Lieutenant, and of 
Alguazil-Major ; he was alfo empowered to eredt four 
Caftles in Peru, where he thought proper, and retain 
the Government and Inheritance of them to him and his 
Pofterity. He obtained for Ferdinando de Lugne, that he 
ffiould be recommended to the Pope to be made Bifliop 
of Pumbez ; and, in the mean I'ime, conllituted Pro- 
tedtor-General of the Peruvians. Almagro was confti- 
tuted Governor of Pimbez, and a twentieth Part of all 
the Profits and Revenues of the Country, when con- 
quered, were to go to Pizarro and Almagro \ two Thirds 
thereof to the former, and one third to the latter ; 
Almagro was made a Gentleman, and his Baftard Son le- 
gitimate : The thirteen Men that remained with Pizarro 
in his Diftrefs on the Ifland ol Gallo were made Gentle- 
m^, if they were not fo betore ; and thofe that were 
Gentlemen then were ordered to be knighted. 
Thele Commiffions and Powers were executed at 
.Pbledo on the 26th of July 1528, and fix Dominican 
Friars were ordered to go over with Pizarra as Miffio- 
naries, to affift in the Converfion ol the Peruvians ; and 
VoL. II. Numb. 7^. 
very tall, was a Man of Family, and had ferved as a 
Captain of Foot ; he married a Woman of Family like- 
wife, by whom he had two Sons, yohn and Ferdinand, 
but as lor Francis he was illegitimate, and the Son of a 
Country Girl, who was afterwards married to an ho- 
neft Farmer, by whom ffie had Francis Martin de Al- 
cantara. Old Gonzalo Pizarro had alfo anotiier natural 
Son, of his own Name ; and the whole Family being 
well beloved in their Neighbourhood, they made great 
Difpatch in providing all that the new Governor wanted, 
which having elfedled, he embarked at Seville, witii his 
four Brothers, viz. Ferdinand, John, Go?izalo, and 
Francis, in the Month of January 1530, and arrived at 
Nombre de Dios on the Coaft of Terra Firma, from 
whence he marched with his People to the City of 
Panama. 
But his irtgroffing all the Honours and Commands to 
himfelf, fo difgufted Almagro, that he refufed to affift in 
the intended Expedition, ’till Pizarro promifed to relin- 
quiffi the Title of Adelantado, and to give him an equal 
Share in whatever they ffiould acquire ; and upon thefe 
Conceffiions, Almagro promhfed to affift him as lormeriy, 
and fmothered his Refentment for the prefent, that the 
Service might not fuffer ; but they were never thoroughly 
reconciled, as will appear hereafter. At length Pizarro 
embarked at Panama in three Ships, taking with him 
one hundred and eighty-five Soldiers, thirty-feven Horfes, 
and fuch a Quantity of Arms, Ammunition, and Stores, 
as might enable him to fix Colonies on the Peruvian. 
Coaft j but meeting with the like contrary Winds as he 
had done in the firft Voyage, and finding it very incon- 
venient, and indeed imprafticable to keep his Florfes 
longer on board, he was obliged to land above an hun- 
dred Leagues to the Northward of P urnbez ; and now, 
thinking himfelf ftrong enough to drive the naked In- 
dians before him, he ffell upon them, plundered their 
Towns, and made many of them Prifoners without any 
manner of Provocation, whereupon the reft fled from 
the Sea Coafts up into the Country ; and Pizarro was 
afterwards lb diftrelled for Provifions, and loft lb many 
Men by Sicknefs and Hardffiips, and the fatiguing 
Marches through Bogs and Thickets of Mangroves in 
this extraordinary hot Climate, that his Forces were ex- 
ceedingly diminiffied ^ and he now too late perceived 
his Error, in not courting the Natives, being in no 
Condition to make a Conqueft of Peru with the Forces 
he had left. 
He took therefore moft of the Treafure he had plun- 
dered the Indians of, and fent his Ships back with it to 
Panama, to raife more Recruits ; inviting, at the fame 
Time, fome Adventurers from Nicaragua, and other 
Parts of North America, to come and join him, pro- 
mifing them a Share of the vaft Trealures he was now af- 
fured of finding in Peru which had a very good Efffibt, 
and procured him foon after a very confiderable Rein- 
forcement. In this Expedition he had already gained fo 
much that he was able to fend thirty thoufand Pezoes in 
Gold tq Pqnama, befides a confiderable Quantity of fine 
Emeralds ; and might have fent many more, if it had 
not been for the Folly of fome of his People, who took 
it into their Heads that thefe precious Stones were as hard 
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