ABSTRACT
Pero Gallego came to Hernando Pizarro without being seen by the guards, and Pizarro made him great promises and begged him to go to Alonzo de Alvarado and deliver the letter to him, and tell him all that had happened at Cuzco. Pero Gallego answered that he would go wherever he sent him, and would use every endeavour to accomplish the journey. So he set out, dressed like an Indian, putting aside his Spanish clothes, shaving off his beard with a razor, and instead of a sword taking a sling wound round his body, and concealing the letter in one of the hollow canes, which the Indians carry, containing certain powders 1 , which I have written about in the book treating of the customs of the Indians. Thus equipped he left the city of Cuzco. He was very swift and had the strongest desire to warn Alvarado as Pizarro had ordered him.
