How, after the battle, the Governor ordered the wounded to be tended, and had Gcmez de Tordoya carried to Guamanga; how retribution was inflicted on the conquered, and how Gámez de Alvarado, being ill, died at Vilcas, and was taken to be buried at Guamanga.

ON the night after the battle it was very sad to hear the groans of the wounded, and the complaints they gave utterance to. But they received very little pity or help; on the contrary, the barbarians slaughtered them and stripped them of their clothes and left them naked. The captain Gómez de Alvarado, was attacked by an illness of which he died at Vilcas. His body was conveyed to Guamanga for interment. They had also taken Gómez de Tordoya to Guamanga, sorely wounded, and after he had received the last offices of the Church he also died. Every one mourned for the deaths of these gentlemen and of Pero Alvarez Holguin, and the others who fell in the battle. They were very honourably interred, as men of such mettle deserved. ¹ There were killed on the field in 285that battle, counting both sides, 240 men. Some make the number higher, but I do not care to affirm anything that I do not know for certain.