1025 / 1060
BOoK
VIII.
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Royal
Comllzelltaries.
999
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thirty two
years of
Age :- For
Atahualpa
took
Hu .1.fcar
Pdfone~
in
th year
i
528,
and the
Spaniards
entered imo that Empire
l
530, and as other will have
ic
1531 ;
and
when
the
Inca,
and·his
wife
the
l nf anta
were btiptiz
d,
it
was
in
the
yea~
I
5
58 ; which being at the end thereof,
the
Infant
a
accoz;ding to
this. account muft be above
30
years
of age; whereas,
in reality, when fhe
was baptized, fhe was not above
17
years old.,
fo
it muft ha¥e been an Errour
in
the Calculation,
by
calling her Daughter inftead of Niece. She was a
Womqn
of great Beauty, and had been much more Cornely, had lhe
been
fair; but that
tawny
Complexion, which is common to the Women of that Countrey, much a–
bates that fweetnefs of Air, and thofe good features which are natural to them,.
The Prince
Sayri
T14pac
had a
fancy
to have the name of
Diego
(which is
1~me1)
fuperadded to him at his Baptifm,
in
re~peCt
to that glorious Apoftle
St.
James,
who according
to
a Tradition received from his Father., and his Captains., ap–
peared
miraculou~y
in
favour
an~
defence of ·
t~e Spani~rqs,
when they were
befieged in that City. The Inhabitants of the City honoured the day of the
In–
cn?s
Baptifm
with
tqe fport of Bulls
1
and throwing
Dans,
and
other
fignal
of
joy., appearing in rich Attire and coftly Liveries. I
my
felf
am
an
Eye-witnefs
thereof, having been a chief ACtor in ,thefe divertifements. After thefe Fefti–
vals were over, and that the
Caciques
had made their Vifits; the
Inca
remained
fome days in the Converfation of his Friends; and enjoyment of hitllfelf with
eafe and plenty, during which time he vifited that famous Fortrefs which his
Anceftors had built;
much
admiring to fee it fallen to
decay,
and
partly
de–
molHhed
by
tl!ofe,
whofe
Glory and
Honour
it was to have
kept up
fuch a
Mo–
nument
and
Trophy of their Conquefts ;
as this
Hifl:ory
teftifies. He alfo
vifited the Cathedral Church, and the Convent of our Lady of the
M~rceds.,
and
of
St.
Francis,,
and
St.
Doms.niclu
in
all
which he.adored the moft
Holy
Sacra–
ment,
calling
it
P1tchacamac, Pachacamac,
(which is God of Heaven and Earth.)
And with the like profound Reverence he worfhipped the Image of our Lady,
calling it Mother of God. Tho' fome malicious Men, who Jpeak well of none,
feeing him with great
D evotion
on his knees
befoi:e
the Moft
Holy
Sacram~nt
· jn the Church of St.
Dommick_.,
faid, that he was worfuipping the Sqn his Fa-
.
t~er,
and the bodies ofhis
Ancefto_rs yvhich
~ere
interred
i~
that
Cburch.H~
1
alfo
vdited the Houfes of the Seleet VJrgms dedicated to the Sun : but paifed
by
the
habitation ofhis Anceftors,which were totall demolifhed,and other newEdifices
er¢ted
by
the
Spaniards
in their places. All thefe particulars were not perfor–
med in a
day,
nor
in
a week, but in
many ;
making thefe vifits his recreati–
on,
and paftime, to
fill
up his vacant hours.
And
having
paffed
feveral Months
in this manner, he went to the Valley of
Tucfly,
rather to enjoy tpe Air, and
delights of thatr Pleafant Garden formerly belonging to l)is Anceftors.,
than
in regard to any Claim or Propriety he had tnerein.
And
there he
WJ.J.tinpvd
during
the fhort time
of
his
Life,
which did not conti.que above
three
years afterwards. He left a Daughter., which was afterwards married
to a
Spaniar-d
called
M11rtm
Garci~
de
Loyola.,
of whom
we
lhall fpeak at
large
ia its due place, and of the ltlanner how he ended his
ays.
CH
AP.
.·XIJ.
The Vice-King raifes, and maintains Horfe
and
Foot for ·
fecurity of
the
Empire.
.
Four
of the
antient Conquerours
dye
.
a natural
Death.
T
HE
Vice-King.,
having acquitted
himfelf
of the importunities of
thof~
who pretended to Land and Eftates in reward of their
Services,
by
ex ·
pelling them out of
Peru;
having alfo put thofe to death who had
fi~ed
with