Defendants giving a great Shout, cut the Cords which held their Fortification together, whereupon the Stones and Trees tumbled down with such force, that they kill’d both Men and Horse, few escaping alive: In this conflict _Alvarado_ himself was lost. His Wife _Beatrix Cuova_ made a stately Funeral for her Husband, and caus’d her House to be Painted black, refusing either to Eat or Drink for a set time, yet notwithstanding, all her pretence of sorrow, she so minded her business, that she took the Government of _Guatimala_ into her own hands; but her Dominion lasted not long, for on the eighteenth of _September, Anno 1541._ happen’d a hideous Tempest of Wind and Rain, mixt with continual Lightning, and horrible claps of Thunder, and what was more terrible, was answer’d with roars and horrid bellowings from the caverns of the Mountain, at whose foot _Guatimala_ stood. About midnight the Mountain was deliver’d, whose Birth was the irruption of an Inundating River, a precipitate torrent tumbling down full of Rocks and Stones, which carry’d all before it, so that in few minutes _Guatimala_ was utterly swept away, not the least mark remaining, nor any left alive except _Alvarado_’s Bastard Daughter by an _Indian_; and in the adjacent Fields, some few, and they maim’d, with broken Arms or Legs; after this utter destruction, they re-built another _Guatimala_, three Leagues more Easterly. But though _Alvarado_ was lost in this Enterprize, yet the Voyage to _Sibolla_ was not laid aside, for _Francisco Velasques_ March’d thither with eight hundred Men, of which most were Horse, but found nought else but Snowy Mountains and barren Plains, insomuch, that his Men and Horses were starv’d for want of Provision; wherefore he return’d without success to _Mexico_, having onely burnt some Villages, and had several Rencounters with the Natives. [Sidenote: _Attabaliba_’s message to _Pizarro_.] But _Attabaliba_ a _Peruan_ Prince, inform’d of _Pizarro_ and _Almagro_’s coming, commanded them both to depart out of his Kingdom; but they not regarding it, march’d directly to _Caxamalca_, where _Attabaliba_ kept his Court, who again sent other Messengers to them with command to leave his Dominions. _Pizarro_ made answer, that he could not obey any Commands but those of his Master the Emperor, who had order’d him to speak with the King himself at his own Palace. _Attabaliba_ hearing that _Pizarro_ resolv’d to come forward, sent him a pair of Painted Shooes and Armlets, that he might put them on when he appear’d before his Throne: Captain _Ferdinand Sotto_ march’d before with twenty Horse, passing close on the Flank of _Attabaliba_’s Army: The _Indians_ amaz’d at the prauncing of their Horses, retreated into their Fortifications, but were for their cowardize immediately slain by the King’s Order. [Sidenote: His discourse with a _Spanish_ Bishop, and his apparel.]