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A15863	The discouerie and conquest of the prouinces of Peru, and the nauigation in the South Sea, along that coast And also of the ritche mines of Potosi.; Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Peru. English	Zárate, Agustin de, b. 1514.; Nicholas, Thomas, b. ca. 1532.	1581 (1581)	STC 26123; ESTC S111812	127,592	201

tooke the way to Quito by land in y t paralell of y e Equinoctiall along some part of the plaines among thickets called Arcabucos in which iorney they passed extreme necessity of victualles as wel of meate as drinke which would haue bene much greater if by good hap they had not met and fallen into a ground of great Canes whose propertie was that cutting any of them at the knot they found the hollow full of sweete water excéeding good holesome Those canes are ordenarily as big as the calfe of a mans leg so that betwéene two knots of ech cane was found a pottle of fresh water They hold opinion the particuler propertie of those canes is to gather water by atraction of y e dewes which dayly fall in the night season by meane whereof although the sayd plaines are drye without any kinde of Springs yet with this succour of water the campe of Don Pedro was wel comforted aswel men as horses yet notwithstanding their hunger was such that they were ●orced to eate many of their horses although eche horse was worth by iust valuation in that countrey 5000. castelins in gold And as they went on their iorney the most part of that low way there rayned hote ashes vpon thē which afterward was knowen to come out of a Volcan which is not far from Quito out of the which procéedeth such a marueylous fyer that lanched out ashes and imbers aboue 80. leagues compas and sometimes the noyce thundering that came from thence was heard a hundred leagues of In all the townes and villages which Don Pedro passed through vnder the Equinoctial Line he found great plentie of Emraldes and after he had passed so troublesome wayes whereof in many places hee and his men were forced to make way by force of hand he then came vnto a loine of hilles couered w t snow where it snowed continually with an exceeding colde through the which he was driuen to passe where with the extremitie of cold dyed aboue sixtie of his men although as many as were of his cōpany put on their bodies all the apparrel which they had to passe that extremitie of colde yea they made such hast that none of them would tary one for another neither to comfort nor helpe them so that it hapned that a Spanyard who carried his wife two daughters with him and séeing them tired with wearines and that hee could neither succour nor yet carry thē away with him hée hauinge his harte kindled with paternall loue abode with them where as they al foure were frosen to death and although he mought wel haue escaped yet the loue of his wife and children was so great that he rather desired to die than to depart from them So that to conclude with this great daunger the Captaine with his Armie passed these snowy Mountaines holding them selues for most happy whē they saw them selues on the other side and gaue God praise with excéedinge ioyful hartes and although the Prouince of Quito is inuironed with high Mountaines couered with Snow yet notwithstandinge in the middest are temperate valleyes both fresh pleasant where people inhabit and haue plenty of corne At that instant was so great a thaw of the snow of one of those mountaines that the water which proceeded out of that snow came downe with so great a furye that it drowned a towne called Contiega the force of this water was so maruailous that it draue stones bigger than any Milstone downe with the streame with such facilitie as if it had béene of Corke How Don Diego de Almagro met with Don Pedro de Aluarado and what passed betweene them Chap. 11. BEfore hath been declared how Don Diego de Almagro hauing left for Gouernor in Quito Captaine Benalcasar and not hauing perfect newes of the comming of Don Pedro de Aluarado into Peru hee returned vnto Cusco in which iorney he wan certain Fortes fortresses where the Indians had lodged them selues for their safetie in which affaires he was so long time occupied y t Don Pedro had time to aland his men and came into the Prouince of Quito before Don Diego had therof intelligēce by mean of the great distance of way which is betweue these places and also where no towne of contractation is neither of christians nor yet of Indiās As he went on a day conquering the prouince of Liribamba he passed ouer a mightie riuer with great peril for y ● Indians had brokē down the bridges so that he was forced to wade ouer in the shalowest place that he could finde and when he was comen ouer he found ready to receiue him a great nūber of Indians men of war against whom the victory h●e had obtayned with great difficultie for their wemen did great hurt w● slings yet not withstanding the Indians had the ouerthrow their Cascike was taken prisoner who certified Don Diego that Dō Pedro de Aluarado was 15. leagues from thence besieging a fort wherin was an Indiā captaine called Sopasopagui Whē Don Diego had vnderstanding of these newes forthwith he sent seuen horsemē to discry his camp but their fortune was to be taken prisoners by Don Pedro his men notwithstanding hee released them againe came with al his power and pitched his campe within fiue leagues of the Real of Don Diego with determinate intent to breake with him to take frō him both his men and countrey When Don Diego saw the great aduantage that his enemie had he determined to returne to Cusco with only 25. horsemē and to leaue the residue with captaine Benalcasar for to defend y e countrey At this instant the Indian Interpreter called Philip of whom mention hath béene made who was the only cause of Atabalibas death fearing punishmēt for the same he fled from his master and went vnto Don Pedro he also caryed with him one principal Cascike and priuely conserted with Don Diegos army that when hee sent for them they should pas vnto Don Pedro his side Whē Philip was come to Don Pedro his presence he offered to put into hys hands al that countrey in quyet possession He aduertised him also that Don Diego was retired vnto Cusco moreouer he said that if it would please him to apprehēd him he might now doe it with great facilitie for quoth he he hath but 250. men of the which are 80. horsemen Don Pedro geuing credit to the false Interpreter furthwith began to direct his way toward Don Diego whō he found in Liribamba with determination to die in the defence of the countrey Don Pedro in like maner set his company in good order with spred ensigne was in readines to geue y t onset But Don Diego hauing but few horsemen meant to resist his encounter on foote wereupon he deuided his men into two quadernes w t the one was captaine Benalcasar and he himselfe had the other And in this order being in sight one of the other there

had no vnderstanding But when Villaoma could not bring his purpose to effect at Charcas he came flying to Cusco And when Don Diego was entred into the Countrey of Chili Philip the Interpreter who was priuie to all the conspiracie fled likewise howbeit hee was taken by certaine Spanyardes that followed him and aswel for this treason as the other that he committed in Quito the Gouernour commaunded his body to be cut in quarters who at the time of his death confessed that hee was the only cause of the vniust death of Atabaliba only to haue his wife at his commaundement as before hath béene rehearsed And as Don Diego was occupied in the conquest of Chili a seruant of his named Iuan de Herrada ouertooke him he it was that his said master had left in the citie of the kings to gather more soldyars for his seruice in the discouery who brought vnto him a prouision which Hernando Pisarro had brought out of Spayne for him by vertue of the which the Emperour had made him Gouernour of one hundred Leagues of ground beyonde the borders and limits of the iurisdiction and gouernment of Don Francisco Pisarro the which office and gouernmente was called in the letters patentes new Toledo for the Precincte of Don Francisco his Iurisdiction was named new Castile But now Don Diego iudging that the cittie of Cusco did fall within the compasse of his Regiment without any respect of his former othe which hee so solemnly had made hee determined to cease and leaue of the discouery which hee had in hand and to returne to take into his possession the Citie of Cusco Of the troubles which Don Diego de Almagro passed in his iorney toward Chili and of some other particularities of that countrey Chap. 2. GReate were the troubles which Don Diego and his company passed in the iorney toward Chili aswel with hunger and thirst as also with encounter of Indians which were mightie great men of groweth Also there were in some places excéeding good archers who were clothed in Zeale skinnes But the extreeme colde did much annoy them aswell the bitter sharpe aire as the frost and snow also the passage ouer the mountaines which were couered with snow where it hapned that a captaine called Ruydias who followed Don Diego de Almagro had many of his men and horses frozen to death for neither their apparrel nor armour could resist the excéeding sharpnes of the aire which did so vehemently penetrate and fréese them The extremitie of this cold was such that at the end of fiue moneths when Don Diego returned toward cusco he found some of his cōpany which had followed outward frozen to death standing on their feete leaning vpon the Rockes and holding their horse bridels in their hands and their horses likewise frozen to death as fresh without corruption as though at that instant they had dyed The carcases of which horses was a great reliefe for his men at his said returne for want of other victualles and after they were past the extremitie of cold thē came they into such a wildernes without any kinde of habitation where they stoode in as great a néede of water to drinke so that their chiefe remedy was to carrye with them from the snowy hilles shéepes skinnes full of water in such sort that euery liue sheepe carryed on his backe the Skinne of an other dead Sheepe full of water Among diuerse properties which the Shéepe of Peru haue one is the strength of their ordinarye burden is halfe a hundred waight and many times thrée quarters of a hundred being laden vpon them as Cammels vse to carry their ladinge and are in makinge much like vnto Cammels sauing that they want the knop on the backe The Spanyardes hath now brought them ●o such purpose that they will carrye a man also in a rode Saddell foure or fiue leagues a day and when they feele thē selues weary they vse to lye downe and will not rise againe although they should bee beaten neuer so much or lifted vp with strength vpon their feete yet they will not goe one ●oote further except they bee vnladen And it happeneth often times that whan any rideth vpon them and they feelinge them selues weary they then lifte vp their heades and looketh vpon him that spurreth them and casteth out of their mouthes a thing of an exceeding euill sauor which is though to be of the foode which lieth in their stomackes They are beastes of great commoditie and their wooll is in euery respect as fine as silke especially one sorte or kinde of them called Palos their ●éedinge is very small chéefely such as labor whose ordinary meate is Maiz also they drinke very seldome that is to say once in foure or fiue daies the flesh of them is passing good and in euery respecte as good or rather better then the Sheepe in Castile of this kinde of flesh all the countrey is aboundantly prouided and in euery Citie and towne it is the principallest flesh in the Shambles although at the first comming thither of the Spanyardes they vsed no shambles for why euery one had cattayle of his owne and whan one Neighbour killed any sort of Beast his other neighbors might haue therof what they would require In certaine places of Chili were many Abstruses in the Plaines so that when they were disposed to hunte them the Spanyards would ride p●st after them very seldome could ouertake any although their flight was on their féete runninge and hoppinge and although their bodies were hugie and waighty yet with their leapes a good horse runninge neuer so swifte could very seldome out runne them There are also many running Riuers which runneth in the day season at night not a whit which is a thinge to be noted and especially among them that vnderstand not the reason therof which is that in the day time the sun melteth the snow and Ise of the mountaines so that the water that commeth from those high hilles in the day maketh great Riuers and at night all remaineth frozen againe But after we passe 500. leagues al●ng the coast come into 30. degrées on y e other side of the Equinoctial toward the Southward there is plenty of rayne and also al windes as ordinarily do blow as it doth in Spaine and other places Eastward All the countrey of Chili is inhabited and hath aswel plaine ground as mountaines and by reason of many crekes and bayes which are in the sea coast of this lande so that sayli●ge North and South requireth sundry windes Chili standeth in 40. degrees as is saide North and South from the Cittie of the Kinges till you passe to the saide 40. degrees in altitude the countrey is very temperate and hath Winter and Sommer in due season accordinge to the qualitie of Castile and their North Starre is in comparison like vnto ours sauinge alwayes hee is accompanied with a litle white clowde this starre according to Astronomers opinion is