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BOOK
VIII.
Royal
CommentarifS.;
CH AP.
IX. '
The fufPicion and
fear
which t!fe
Governours
of ihe Prince
conceived on occafion of the Me/fage
which
the
Chrifiians
font to
them. The
ways,
and diligence
they
ufed
to fecu
re ,.
·
the1nfelves
front
thefe jealoufies.
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His Author, in the fourth Chapter of the third book of his Hiftory.,
faith.,
as follows. The Frier and
Betanfos
being come to
Coz..co,
it was order–
ed, That
they fhould remain
behind,
wbilft
the Governour
Munnoz..,
and
DQn–
na Beatriz..
went before the Ambaffadours,
with
her Son
7ohn Sierra.,
to the
Inca.
Which being fo agreed.,the Frier
and
Betanfos
went
out
of theCity three
days
be–
fore tliem, pretending to
fray and
expect
them
on the road : · But to gain the
bonour of being
the firft Ambaffadours.,.
advanced
as
far
as
the Bridge
c_alled
Chuquichaca,
which borders on !he Jurifdiction of the
Inca:
And having
wi
h great
dHEculty
_paired
the Bridge;
they
were detained
by
the
Indian
Souldiers, who
kept
watch
and
gua~d
on
~hac
fide., and there
kept without other hurt or
da–
tnage done to
them ;
not
fuffering
them to proceed forward, nor return back
again; and
fo
n~mained
until
the
next
~ay,
when
'John
Sierra,
with the
4mbaf–
fadours
from
the
Inca
came
to
them,
with ten
other
Indians
who were
fent
·to
meet the
Acnba{fadours :
In
fine,
John
Sierra
1
and the Ambaffadours were per–
mitted to
proceed,
but
BeMnfos
and the Ftier were detained: The
Inca
being
informed
that
:fohn
Sierra
was near at hand.,
.1and
alfo that
a
Frier
and
Be–
tanfos
who were
Ambaffadours
from the V
ice-K.it;lg were not far diftant ;
h~
difpeeded
a
Captain
with
200
Indian
Souldiers, (whom they called
Caribdes,
and are of that fort., wh• eat the Enemies
wqich
they take in the War) to
fignifie to the
Amba!fadours,
that the
lnca,s
pleafure was, that they fhould ae–
clare the Meffage they brought
unto
his General. Accordingly the firft day paf–
fed in
complement,
the General
only
bidding them welcome: But the next
day
John Sierra
befog
admitted
to Audience.,
he
was
feverel
y
reproved
by the
General for
coming
with·
the attendance of fo many Chriftian Souldiers: For
which
John Sierra
excufed himfelf, faying, That he
brqnght
them
by
the ad–
vice
and
order
of
the Governour of
CoZ.co,
and his
Aunt
Donna
Beatriz:,;
and
Yben he declared to him
the
occafion for which
he was
fent, and read to him the.
Letters from
his
Mother, and the
Govemour,
with that
alfo_which the
Vice..
King had wrote
to
!Jonna Beatriz... 'John Sierra
h:aving thus delivered his Melfage,
Betan;os
and
the
Fner
were alfo
called
and
admitted
~o
the tame place; ofwhom
they
demanded the
fame
queftions, to fee what difference
tneFe
was in tbe pro·
pofals which were made.
·
The Frier and
Betanfos
produc;ed the Writing of Pardori., and declared
the
fubftance of the Embafiy upon which they were employed, and delivered the
Prefent which the Vice-King fent to the
Inca
of feveral pieces
of
Velvet, and
Damask, and two
Cups
of filver gilded,together with other things of curiofity.
After which the
General
and Captains fent
two
Indians,,,
who
had
been
prefent at all the difcourfe, to give a relation
to
the
Inca
of the particu–
lars which had paffed; which when the
Inca
had
heard,
and thought well
upon, he
gave anf
wer,
That the Amba{fadours fhould immediately
return:
from
whence they came, with their Letters, Act of Pardon, and Prefents;
for than
he
would
no~
have to do with the Vice-King, but remain free;
and
indepen~ent
of him, as he had hitherto done. But as
'!John
Sierr11,
and the reft were departed, orders were brought after them
by
two
ln–
dians,
that
they
fbould return immediately, and appear before the
Inca.,
td
give hiQJ and his
Captains
an account in perfon of the
Embafiy
they
had
brought;
and being on their
way,
and not above four Leagues from
the.
Inca,
another Command
was
given that
'John Sierra
1hould come alone, and
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