ABSTRACT
It was not long before the judgment became known at chincha, and when the Adelantado and his captains heard it, their perturbation was very great, all showing it by a sad and pensive silence. After a short time, with great fury, the silence was broken, and they made a cry to arms, saying they would 154not wait longer, that it was not right that so great an evil should be tolerated, nor should the cruel friar fail to be punished for the wrong he had done. Throughout the camp or city of Almagro there was such noise and tumult that one could not understand the other. They held meetings, saying that it was owing to the ignorance of Almagro that Pizarro got the better of them, and would occupy the rich and thickly inhabited provinces while they would have to live in swamps and wilds among woodcutters. If they were to give up Cuzco, it would have been much better to have crossed the river Maule and plunge into the interior of those regions which border on the Straits of Magellan. Many of them were so distressed that the Adelantado did not care to order the tumult to cease, and he himself, unable to conceal the pain which the news caused him, said:
