At this moment I heard a great shouting and looking round, saw that the
Quichuas had broken through our left and were slaughtering many, while
the rest fled, also that our right was wavering. I sent messengers to
Huaracha, bidding him call up the Yunca rear guard. They were slow in
coming and I began to fear that all was lost for little by little the
hordes of the men of Cuzco were surrounding us.
Then it was that Kari, or some with him, lifted a banner that had been
wrapped upon a pole, a blue banner upon which was embroidered a
golden sun. At the sight of it there was tumult in the Inca ranks, and
presently a great body of men, five or six thousand of them that had
seemed to be in reserve, ran forward shouting, "_Kari! Kari!_" and fell
upon those who were pursuing our shattered left, breaking them up and
dispersing them. Also at last the Yuncas came up and drove back the
regiments that assailed our right, while from Urco's armies there rose a
cry of "Treachery!"
Trumpets blew and the Inca host, gathering itself together and
abandoning its dead and wounded, drew back sullenly on to the plain, and
there halted in three bodies as before, though much lessened in number.
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