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Royal Conirnentaries. B ooK ·v111~
lhall cut thee into fiices, and confound thee, and all that belong to thee.
Doft thou not rememb~r, that about this time, and in this v ry place, we
cut off the Heads of thirty Spamard1, and that one of our lnc11r difmounted
two men and wrefi:ed their Lances from them, and had done the lilre to Gon–
} a lo Ptfa~ro, had he nQt refcued himfelf by a mor than ordinary Agility an4
Prowers? Doft thou not know, that we put an end to our Wars againft the
p11niards, and ~aifed ~he Siege of _this. Town ; .and that our Prince did volun–
tarily refign his Emptre., and retire into Bam{hment, upon no other Motive
tha n the aftoniihcnent we conceived, to fee the many Miracles which the Pa–
chacam11c wrought in favour and defence of them ? Doft thou not know., that t
during the fiege of this City, we killed ar 800 Spaniards in the way to Rimac?
t nd were it not now a brave thing, and Gallantry fit for the Honou uch a
Feaft as this., to raife up the Heads ofall thofe that were {lain? with Head
of John Piparro, who was killed above., in yonder Fortrefs, and expof em to
th"' view of all thefc Spell:ators ? It had been yvell, if thou hadft confidered
thefe particulars, and many others which I could now relate, before thou hadft
alted fuch a fcandalous pi ce of folly as this. And then turning to ~e Deputy,
ir> faid he, do me that Juftice, which the nature of this lnfolence requires,
hat we may not be affronted nor trampled on by our own Slaves.
The D eputy Monja111z.. having h ard the Reafons alledged by one, and the
other, ordered the Head which C11n11ari carried in his hand to be taken from
him, and the Mantle which was girt clofe, to be ftripped off, requiring him
on pain of a far greater punifhment., neither to difcourfe, nor treat of
fnch matters as thefe., either in publick or private. With this reprehenfion
given to Cannari, all the Incas and Indians both Men and Women were fully
fatisfied; and the word Auca., A s1ca., was raifed, and .taken from one to a–
nother, which r efounded over all the Town : And then the Proceffion was
carried forward without interruption, according to the accuftomary Cere–
monies. It is faid, that the compafs ·which they take in carrying the Procef–
fion now, is twice as far as it was formerly ; for now they go out from the
Great Church, and return round by way of St. Francis, which is much farther,
than when they only fetched a compafs round the two places of Cujipata
and Haucaypata, which we have often mentioned.
Blejfed be the Divi~1e Maje(fy, who hath VQuchfafed to blefi thiJ Countrey with
thefa holy Footfteps, and eo enlighten the Gentiles, who were formerly benighted
tn the dark_. of Ignorance.
• CH AP. II.
Of a fl range Accident which fell out at Cozco.
S ome after theWars of Francifco Hernandez... were ended., another Acci–
dent ened at Coz..co., which was very ftrange; the which having received
from the report of fome intelligent, and religious perfons, who underftood, that
l iliould fi y., that a arrati ve thereof would tend to the fervice of our Ealy Mo–
th r le Roman Chur h, were pleafed to Tranfmit a Relation thereof, that I
might infc rt it in this our Hiftory ; and accordingly as an obedient, tho' an
unworthy., Son of fu{:h a Moth r, I have thought it my Duty t recount that
matt r in the manner following . ·
Eight or nine years before the lateTroubles, the Feaft ofthe Evangelift St.Mark..,
was annually celebrat din Coz..co, in fuch manner as the Jnhabitants ofthat City
were able t p rform. The Proceilion was carried forth fi:om the Con\)'entof the
B St. Do ·ninic/z., which as we have before mentioned., was founded in that Houfe,
whi h in he cim of was the Te:mple Dedicated to the Sun. From this
Conv0 nt th Proc ffio ied to a certain Hermitage.,adjoining to thofe Hou–
fes which were belonging to Don Chriftov I Pdttltt Inca. Acercain Prieft call d Fa-
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