Note 75 — Chapter XXXIII

Cieza de León always calls the half-caste son of the Adelantado Don Diego de Almagro by the name 'Don Diego.' Others call him Almagro the lad (el mozo). He was born at Panamá, the son of Almagro by an Indian woman of Panamá who was his servant, and called Ana Martínez. He was probably born in 1518. Francisco Martín de Alcántara, the half brother of the Marquis, brought the half-caste boy to Peru in 1535, when his age was seventeen, and treated him as one of his family, in his house at Lima. Later he was sent to Cuzco to meet his father returning from Chile. He was with his father until the battle of Las Salinas. It was then decided to send him to Lima under the care of Gómez de Alvarado and Juan de Herrada. At Jauja they met the Marquis Pizarro, who treated the lad as his own son, and ordered him to be well cared for, and lodged in his house. This continued for a long time. But such crowds of discontented Almagrists were always coming there, that at last the Marquis sent the lad to another lodging in Lima.