ABSTRACT
As eight days had passed since Diego de Alvarado, and those with him, had left the city of Cuzco to go to Abancay, and no news had been received of them, it seemed to the Adelantado a bad sign, and he feared that they might have been killed by the Indians or made prisoners by Alonzo de Alvarado. So he sent an order to the Spaniards who were guarding the bridge over the Apurimac, to keep a good look out themselves, lest any disaster should overtake them, and to capture some Indians so as to find out from them what had happened to Diego and Gomez de Alvarado and those who were with them.
