Other things I did also, too many
and long to record.
The end of it was that within three months Huaracha had an army of some
fifty thousand men who, if not well trained, still kept discipline, and
could move in regiments; who knew also how to shoot with their bows and
to use their copper-headed spears and axes of that metal, or of hard
stone, to the best purpose.
Then at length came the Yuncas to join us, thirty or forty thousand of
them, wild fellows and brave enough, but undisciplined. With these I
could do little since time was lacking, save send some of the officers
whom I had trained to teach their chiefs and captains what they were
able.
Thus I was employed from dawn till dark and often after it, in talk with
Huaracha and his generals, or in drawing plans with ink that I found a
means to make, upon parchment of sheepskin and noting down numbers and
other things, a sight at which these people who knew nothing of writing
marvelled very much. Great were my labours, yet in them I found more
happiness than I had known since that fatal day when I, the rich
London merchant, Hubert of Hastings, had stood before the altar of St.
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