[28] From the subsequent operations of Alvarado, this seems an error of
the press for Quito. - E.
[29] Probably that now called Riobamba by the Spaniards, about 100 miles
south from Quito. - E.
[30] Garcilasso says that the soldiers of both armies, being mostly
natives of Estremedura, mixed together without permission of their
officers, and made propositions of peace and amity, by which the
generals were in a great measure forced to an agreement.
[31] Two thousand marks of gold of eight ounces each, and the ounce at
four pound Sterling are worth L.64,000, perhaps equivalent to near
L.460,000 of modern money. - E.
[32] Perhaps that now called Xibarros, in the south of the kingdom of
Quito. - E.
[33] According to Garcilosso, Pizarro made an additional free gift to
Alvarado of 20,000 gold pesos to defray the expence of his voyage back
to his government, with emeralds and turquoises to a considerable
value, and several articles of gold plate for the use of his table. - E.
[34] Lima or Los Reyes is built on the banks of a river named Rimac or
Limac by the Peruvians, whence its ordinary name of Lima. It is about
ten miles from the sea, having a port named Callao at the mouth of the
river. This city got the name of _the City of the Kings_; either from
its foundation being laid on the 18th of January 1535, on the festival
of the _three kings_; or in honour of Juana and Carlos, joint
sovereigns of Castile. - E.
SECTION III.
_Occurrences from the departure of Almagro for Chili, to his capture by
Pizarro, being the first part of the civil wars in Peru_.
Inconsequence of the agreement between Pizarro and Almagro, which was
ratified on the 12th of June 1535, Almagro soon afterwards set out upon
the proposed discovery and conquest at the head of five hundred and
seventy men, partly cavalry and part infantry; for so great were the hopes
of acquiring riches in this expedition, that several who had already
acquired establishments in Peru, abandoned their houses, lands, and
Indians, to follow the fortunes of Almagro[1]. Juan, de Saavedra was sent
on before the main body of the army with a detachment of a hundred men;
and, in the course of his march through that province which has since been
called _Los Charcas_, he met with some Indians on their road from Chili to
Peru, who were going to pay their homage to the Inca. Almagro having along
with him a body of two hundred men, both horse and foot, made a march of
two hundred and fifty leagues, reducing the whole country in his way, till
he arrived in the district of the _Chichas_, where he learnt that he was
followed by a body of fifty Spaniards commanded by Niguerol de Ulloa.
Almagro commanded that party to join him, and continued his march towards
Chili, which is 350 leagues beyond the province, of Chichas, reducing all
the tribes on his route to submission.
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[27] Tumbez seems here substituted by mistake for Payta. San Miguel is not
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