How the Captains Mesa and Villagran, who went with Pedro de Candia, conspired to liberate the Adelantado and kill Hernando Pizarro; of the letters they wrote on the subject to Diego de Alvarado, and of what happened further about this matter

The followers of Pedro de Candia came out of the forests very weak, and some of them ill. Out of fear of the quartermaster Juan Quijada, a friend of Hernando Pizarro, Captain Mesa, with the design we have mentioned, treated with Pedro de Candia deceitfully, and induced him to send Quijada to Cuzco to report the results of the expedition. He was to relate the hardships they had endured, and how they had been unable to find a road to the country of which they had received reports, and that as they now desired to explore a populated region, or a locality where they could have grants of Indians, and gain a living, permission should be given them to occupy the valley of Caravaya, which is less difficult of access, the Indians 217reporting that there is an easy way through the forest and across the mountains. The quartermaster Juan de Quijada offered to go to Cuzco, and set out with letters from Pedro de Candia and other persons.