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The president, with his principal officers, took part in the labor with the common soldiers;11 and before ten o'clock in the evening, Gasca had the satisfaction to see the bridge so well secured, that the leading files of the army, unencumbered by their baggage, might venture to cross it. A short time sufficed to place several hundred men on the other bank.
by William Hickling Prescott Settlement Of The Country Great Sensation In Spain Pedro De La Gasca His Early Life- His Mission To Peru His Politic Conduct His Offers To Pizarro- Gains The Fleet
Such an act of generosity, at this late hour, must be allowed to be highly creditable to Gasca, believing, as he probably did, that the game was in his own hands. It is a pity that the anecdote does not rest on the best authority.20
"But who, I'd like to know, would have come up to this lonely place to look for gold, and how could an ignorant old Mexican like Gasca dispose of it without getting into trouble?" "Well, mebbe so. Anyhow, here's your cabin." The cabin was situated up the canyon on the right hand side of the road.
It was proof of extraordinary consideration, that it should have been bestowed on Gasca; since it was a departure from the established usage -and that in a nation most wedded to usage to confer the office on any but a subject of the Aragonese crown.6 Gasca executed the task assigned to him with independence and ability.
Gasca expended in levying the troops which he led against Pizarro nine hundred thousand pesos. The distributions of property, bestowed as the reward of services, were still more exorbitant.
The horrible oppression of the people excited insurrections. At length Charles V. sent out Pedro de la Gasca as viceroy , at a time when Gonzalo Pizarro, the last of the family, held sway. Gonzalo perished on the gallows. Gasca reduced the government to an orderly system. THE AMAZON. Orellena, an officer of Pizarro, in 1541 first descended the river Amazon to the Atlantic.
That his majesty, being fully informed of all that had occurred in that country, had sent out De la Gasca as president, with instructions and full powers to provide a remedy for all the existing evils.
"Being well informed in regard to all these affairs, and having heard every thing that Francisco Maldonado had in charge to say on the subject from you and the inhabitants of these provinces, we have thought proper to send over as our president the licentiate De la Gasca, a member of our council of the holy inquisition, to whom we have given full power and authority to do every thing that he may deem proper and necessary for restoring tranquillity and good order in the country, to replace its affairs on a proper footing, and to introduce such regulations as may tend to the good of our service and the glory of God, and the advantage of the country and its inhabitants, both such as are our natural subjects and the original inhabitants.
But, however plain and unpretending the manners of Gasca, Mexia, on his first interview with him soon discovered that he had no common man to deal with. The president, after briefly explaining the nature of his commission, told him that he had come as a messenger of peace; and that it was on peaceful measures he relied for his success.
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