1021 / 1060
BooK
VIII.
Royal
Commentaries.
995
For
a s
we have
1a1d
in
J:he
firft p art.,
th
Incas
made
feve re
Laws againft thole
who
eat human Flefh: And therefore we mu
ft
underftand
this Au thor, accor–
ding to the cuftome of
Mexico,
and
not
of
Peru..
The Revenue given
to the
Inca,
did
not
amount to
17000
pieces of Eight, (for as we have fcUd before)
the
Lands
of
Francifco Hernandez..
did
not yield above ten thoufand pieces of
Eight
per annum.
And as to what he
fays,
they gave him in the Valley of
Tu–
cay,
which was the Eftate of the Son of Mar9.uis
Francifao
Pifarro,
it
was
in reality worth nothing,
for that Valley berng very pleafant., and delight–
ful, was divided
amoogft
the
Spaniard1,
who were C itizens
of
Co7...co,
and well
cultivated
by
them, and fenced in to make. Gard
ens ~adVineyards, as
it
is
to this day :
~herefore
·the poor
In~a enjoy~d
noth1.ngmore. ., than to have
the Title of bemg Lord of
Tuca;
which notwtth!tandmg, he highly efteemed.,
being the moft pleafant piece of ground in all the Empire. The grant of
which, was not carried to the
Inca
by
1ohn
de Sierra.,
as this Author intimates,
but was given him at
Los
Reyes,
when he perfonally appeared there, to vifit
the Vice-King, and pay the Complement of Obedience: But that which was car–
ried
by
"john
de
Sierra,
and delivered to the
Inca,
was no
other than an Aet of
Grace, and Pardon of
all
his Crimes, without mentioning
any
particulars,
or
making
any-promifes
of fupport, or maintenance for himfelf or Family ;
or fetting ouE any Lands, to make him a Revenue.
In the following Chap-
ter· we
will
fet down every thing methodically as they paffed; for what we
r
have anticipated in this place, is only to ihew
by
another hand, what Cau–
tion.,· Subtilty, Craft, aad Jealoufie, the
Indian
Captains ufed
in
their Trea-
ties, before they would adventure to commit their Prince into the power of
the
Spaniards.
CH A.P.
x.·
The Governours of the Prince confult the feveral Prophefies,
and Prognoftications which were made, concerning the event
of their Princls departure from the Mountains.
Diverfe
Opinio1J-s arife thereupon; the
Inca
refolves to go
;
he
comes to
Los
Reyes,
where he ·is received
hy
the Vice–
King. The anfwer which the
Inca
made, when the In-
flrument was delivered to him, which allotted, and fecu–
red a maintenance to hbn.
T
HE. Captains and Tutors of the
Inca
continued their Debates,
~and
-Confultations, concerning
the Surrender of their
Prince,
into the hands
of
the
Spaniards:
And for better affuranc
·therein, they infpelted the En–
trails of the Beafls., which they offered
i
acrifice, and obferved the flying
of Birds
by
Day, and thofe of the Night; they looked on the Skye, to fee
whether
it
were thick or cloudy, or whether the Sun were bright and clear,
without Mifts, or Clouds which covered
it,
and accordingly they made their
Prognoftications of good or bad Fortune : They made no enquiries of the
Devil : becaufe,
( as
w~
have faid before) all tl:ie Oracles of that Country
ceafed , and became dumb., fo foon as the Sacraments of our
Holy
Mother
the
Church
of
Rome
entered into thefe Dominions.
And tho'
all the Obfer–
vations made, feemed good Omens, and portended happy fuccefs; yet the Cap–
t:ains were
divided in their 0
pinions. Some
faid that it was
fit
for
their
Prince . to appear publickly,
and in
the
Eyes of his
People, to
whom nothing
could be
fo
pleafant and accep table,
as
the prefence of hi>
Perfon .
Others
L 11111
2
faid