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Roy~l
Conirnentaries.
·B.o·o
K
VIII.
BHhoprick
?f
Cordo'!a,
where I then Jived, and where he related to me man
of thofe thrngs
which ar e here. recounted.. After
fo
long a time he
obtaine~
leave fi:om
t~e
Supre.am Coun.cdof the
Indies
to return to
Pem,
and had three
years given
htm
todifpatch his
Bulin
.fi
there, and remit
his
effects into
Spain
where he was afterwards obliged to live and
finilh
his
days.
B .ing on hi'
departure, he
~ith
his Wife whom he had ma:ried at
Madrid
paffed
by
th~
place
where
I lived, and
defired
~e
to help him to fome Furniture for his
H~ufe,
for
that
he
returne~
to
hts
ow~
Cduntry poor, and in want of all
thmgs :
~
prefently gave him all the Lrnnen. I had,
.witjl.
f9me pieces of Taf–
faty,
which I had made up after the Souldiers fafl11on, mtending them
fot
Colours, or Enfigps for a Foot Company.
The year before I
had
fent him to
the
Cou~t
a
very
goo~
Borre,
which
he defired of me, which together with
the
other thmgs I gave
htm
might be worth
500
Ducats ;, which he took fo kindly
that he faid to me,
Brother tmft me herein, and when
I
come to
my
own
Country
j
will
fend
you,
2000
pieceJ of Eight in payment thereof.
I do
not doubt but he
would have been as
good
as his
word,
but
my
ill
Fortune era.fled me, for three
days after he arrived at
.Payta
(whi~h
is juft on
t~e Frontie~s ~f
Peru)
he
died
meerly
by
an excefs of
JOY
he conceived to fee
hUDfclf
agam
10
his own Coun–
try.
Pardon me, Reader, this Digreflion which I have prefumed to make fole–
ly
out of refpect, and affection
to
my
School-fellow.
All
the
others
died in their
Banilhment, not oneef them returning again
to
his own Country.
· CHAP. XVIII.
How
all
the
Incas
of the Blood Royal, and
thofe
of them
born
of
Spanilh
Fathers and
Indian
Mothers
1Pere
ha–
nifbed.
The Death
and
E11d
of them
all. The
Sentence
given againft the
Prince with
his Anfwer thereunto, and ho,,,
he
received
Holy Baptifm.
.
.
A
LL thofe
Indians
who were Males of the Royal
Line,
and neareft ofthe
Blood'J to the number of thirty fix perfons,
were
all banilhed to the
City
of
Los
Reyes
;
and there commanded to .refide, and not to fiir from thence
without fpecial
Order
obtained from the Government:
With
them alfo the
two
Sons
and a Daughter of that poor Prince were fent, the eldeft of which was
not above ten years of age.
The
Incas
being come to
Rimac,
otherwife cal–
led the
City
of
Los
Reyes,
the Archbilhop thereof, named
Don
Geron·
o
Loayfa,
out of compaillon to them, took the little Girl home, with intent to
educate,
or breed her up in his own
Family..
The others looking on thernfelves as
Exiles driven out of their Country and Houfes, and put befides their na–
tural ways of living, took
it
fo
much to Heart, and bewail,d their conditi–
on with fuch grief,
that
in
litr:le
more tha
the fpace of two years
thirty
five of them died,
together
with
the
two
Sons. But what we
may
believe
contributed likewife to
their greater
Mortality., was
the heat and moifture of
the Climate upon the Sea-Coaft wherein they lived : For as we have faid
in
our
Fidt Part of this Hiftory, That the Air of the Plains is
fo
different from that
of the Mountains, thatt thofe who have been bred in., and accufromed to the
Hilly
Countries, cannot endure the lower Airs, .which are made as
it
we:e Pe–
ftilential to them
by
the excefilve heats and mo1ftures of
the
Sea. This was
the end of thefe poor
Incas
;
and as to the three which furvived, one of which
was my School-fellow, named
Don Carlos,
the so·n of
Don Chrijfoval
PaHl11,
of whom. we have formerly made mention, the · Lord of the
Chancery,
taking pity of their condition., gave th m liberty
to
return
to th
fr
Houfes, and to more agreeable Air; but
they
were
fo
far fpeot, and tonfumed
·
beyond