Captain Cárdenas, of Toledo
Pedro de Oñate
Captain Diego de Hoces,[140] of Zaragoza
Capt. Juan Tello, of Sevilla
Bartolomé de Arbolancha[140]
Francisco Pérez[140]
Antonio Noguero, of Puerto de S^{ta} María
Basilio (an Italian)
Martel, of Sevilla[140]
Francisco de Mendibar, of Torrejón de Velasco
Captain Martín Cote (a Guipuzcoan)
Captain Juan Muñoz
Barragán (the younger),[140] of los Santos
Martín Carrillo[140]
Juanes de Santiago, of Santander
Juanes (a Biscayan)
Captain Juan Pérez, captain of cross-bowmen
Juan Gómez de Salvatierra, of the Almendral
Baltasar Gómez,[140] of Valladolid
Juan de Guzmán[140] de Acuña, son of Vasco de Guzmán
Juan Sánchez,[140] of Estremadura
Bartolomé Cabezas,[140] of Jerez
Ramírez, of León
Losa,[140] of Zamora
Carreño, of Sevilla
Juan Diente,[140] of Gibraltar[141]
Vaca de Castro was guilty of great remissness in not sending the
news forthwith to the King our Lord and those of his Royal Council.
Nay rather, several vessels were detained many days in the port of
Lima, and many merchants and traders were put to serious loss through
his action in not allowing them to leave the ports where they were
anchored. The captain Francisco de Herencia and some others were
banished, and a shipmaster was ordered to convey them to New Spain.
When they were far from the coast of Peru they mutinied and went to
Panamá. At that time I had come thither to negotiate certain business
with the Audience which then sat at that city. The mutineers presented
themselves before the members of the Audience, who set them free.
To return to Vaca de Castro. He remained for eight days in Guamanga,
reforming various things for the good of the Realm, and despatching
letters to the various cities in it to announce the victory that God,
our Lord, had given him. Hearing that Don Diego had fled towards
Cuzco, he ordered the captain Garcilaso de la Vega to set out at once
for that city, with some cavalry, and occupy it in the name of his
Majesty the King, our Lord. Should Don Diego be found in the city, he
was to be arrested, as well as any of his followers who were there. So
Garcilaso de la Vega departed, with some lancers, to carry out what
the Governor Vaca de Castro had ordered him.
FOOTNOTES:
[137] Holguin, Tordoya, and Gómez de Alvarado are said to have been
buried in the little church of San Cristóbal at Guamanga, near the
head of the avenue leading to the Chupas road. But _Cojo_ Arias told
me of the tradition that Gómez de Tordoya was not buried with the
others, but in the church of La Merced, nearer the centre of the town.
In 1887 a statue of a warrior was found in a niche in La Merced,
recumbent on a mortuary bed, embracing his sword. It is of sandstone
and 6½ feet long. It no doubt represents Gómez de Tordoya, probably
due to the piety of his cousin Garcilaso de la Vega. The Indians of
Guamanga (Ayacucho) are renowned as sculptors.
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