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BooK

III

Royal

Commentaries..

defcended

the Sea Coafr, which the

Spaniards

call the

Lauhes1

and

~affed

the

fufi

Valley, , hich in tho[e parts hath the name of

~ana.(ca, w~1ch figmfi~

dole–

full,

or difinal;

what

might be the occafion of

rh1~

Epithet,

not

c~rtam,

t;>uc

it is beli ved that it might be from fome great pum!hment, or calamity, wh1ch

had

happened there_:, the

Spaniards

cal!

Lanafca~ ~here

alfo .the

Inca

~vas

recei–

ved without oppofit1on, and obeyed without cond1tions; the

like

fubm1ffi?n

~as

yielded by the Inhabirants of

all

the Vallies from

Nana(ca

Arequepa,

which

lies

by che Sea-coall: for t e fpace of above eighty

L~agues

in length,

an~

(ourteen

fifteen in breadth:

the chief Valleys are

Hacan

and

Camata,

concammg twenty

thoufand Inhabitants; there are other Vallies of

lefs

confideration, whicn are

Ati–

ca,, Vcunna, Atiquipa

and

!2..!!_el!ca,

all w!llch yielded ready Obedience, both

be–

cau[e they neither had force

refill, bemg a poor naked People, and becaufe

every

all~y

had its particular Lord, and fome of them two

three, amongfl:

whom

wer~

perpetual

~arrels

and Diffentions.

And

m«e

e are now treating of thofe places,

will

not feem an improper

Digrefli.00, though perhaps out of its due order,

we !hould recount a remar–

kable paffage, which happeliled in the Valley of

Hacari,

fome time after that the

Staniard,r

were MaHer.s of

it.

The occafion was this: Two

CuracM,

who had

not as

yet

b en

tized, were gre.:uly at variance together, about the Limits

:aounds of their

uri(di

·ons, which increafed fo high, that they often endea–

voured

t-0

decide rhe Difference in Batte!; to prevent which, the

Spanifh

Gover.:

nours

fent a

ComOilifiioner to them , with power to determine, and put a

final

end to their Di(pw:es by a friendly and amicah>le Compofure ' The Judge, or

Umpire , having heard both f1des , allotted unto each fuch Boundaries as he

thought

did

-0f

right

belong unto them, refpettively obliging them to maintain

~€ac~

and

FriendChip

together ; which though they promifed to doe, one of them

who

thought himfelf injured and aggrieved by this Divifion, concealed

his

paf–

fi.on

and inren.tion

Revenge under the fpecious appearance of Friendfhip :

for

the

Day being come, when the Solemnities of the Peace were to pafs, they both

ate app.drank together; the Banquet being ended, the offended

Curaca

arofe, and

taking~

o Cups in his hand,

filled

witn Liquour,

if he intended co drink

~e-alc.h

to the <;onfirrnation of their

Friend~ip,

(as the cufrome amongll: the

Jn-

4ians

IS)

he offered one of the

~ups,

which was prepared with poifon, to

his

E.nemy, refervmg the other, which wa wholfome,

for

himfel ; but the other

<;urafa-

ob[erving

Come

change in the Countenance of him who made him the

offer,

and

pilfati fa9tion

the terms he received, refu[ed the Cup which he

reached

htJTI, deftrmg rather to have the other which he referved for himfel£

The

Cur1tca,

not

f~em

cowardly, or to offer that which be refufed himfelf,

was

eafily,

p·erfotided

cha_nge his. hands , and with that reached to his Enemy

the

w~om?me

Cup, and without difficulty drank up the Poifon himfelf; of which

dymg in a

few

hours after,

gave a fuffident evidence , that the Draught was

not more deadly than the Po1fon of his own Rage and

Malice, with

which he

fwelled and burfr.

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