ABSTRACT
The news of the battle that was about to be fought between the men of Chile and those of Pachacamac spread far and wide, and no small number of natives assembled, rejoiced that there would be some sort of satisfaction for the ills they had suffered from the Spaniards. They crowded on the ridges and hillsides, not desiring that either side should be victorious but that all should be killed with their own weapons. They knew these strangers to be so doughty that 200,000 Indians could not kill 180 of them in the past year, during the siege of Cuzco. The wives of the Indian chiefs and the girls in the service of 196Spaniards came out from the city to see the contending parties in the battle.
