ABSTRACT
The captains and other followers of the Governor Don Francisco Pizarro were very near Mala, and Captain Castro with some arquebusmen and musketeers were secretly posted in a cane-brake. The Adelantado arrived near Mala and sent two horsemen to announce his approach to the Provincial. All waited his arrival near the door of the building. When 143he came near the place where the Governor stood, he got off his horse and, taking off his hat, came forward to embrace him. Pizarro had on a helmet. He did not remove it, nor do more than, in sign of courtesy, raise his hand to it and make a bow. When the Adelantado came forward to embrace him, he did the same, showing little pleasure in doing so. After they had embraced, the Provincial proposed that they should go upstairs to the room above, where there was more space for conversation. All those who came with the Adelantado having arrived the Governor thereupon said to them, “It seems to me, gentlemen, that you have come here more to quarrel than for anything else.” They all replied that they were there to serve him. Juan de Guzman considered that, on such an occasion the trumpets should not be silent, so he asked the trumpeters why they did not sound them. They answered that it was not yet time. When he heard this he wondered whether they were awaiting some signal, and that on the trumpets sounding they would know how to act, and he watched when they were going to sound, intending to prevent them.
