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IV.
Royal Commentaries.
people, whom he reduced under his Dominion, the which were called
Tacmara
and
~innualla
•
then
he
came to
Cochacaffe,
where he made
Come
flay and aboad ;
and
from
thenc~
he proceeded to
Curampa,
and, without difficulty, fubdued
that
people, becaufe they were
~ew
.in.
num~er
; from
Curampa
he came to the
Pro–
vince c;alled
Antah11aylla,
which 1s mhab1red on both
~des
of the
w~y
for
th~
[pac€
of fixteen or feventeen Leagues, by a people both nch and warlike: This
Na–
tion is
called
Chanca,
boafiing themfelves to
be
de~cended
from. one
Leon,
whom
rhey
efieemed
and adored for a God ; and at their great Fe!hvals, both before
and after they ''ere fubdued by the
Incas,
they
c~rried t~e~ty ~our
Pietures
i;i
Proceffion painted after the manner of
Hercules,
with a Lions skm, and a Man s
head:
I
r~member
I
faw thefe
PiCtur~s
once brought forth on
Corp11A
Chrifti
day,
or the Feafi of the Holy Sacrament. Under this denqrnination of
Chanca
many o–
-rher Nations were comprehen<led, as
Banco hualla,
Vtunf
ulla, Vramarca,
Pi/lea
and
others·
all
of which make their boafis of being defcended from diiferent Origi-
nals ;
fome
from this Fountain, others
.from
that Lake ; every Nation efteeming
that
for
their God , and thereunto offering Sacrifice , from whence they owned
and derived their Pedigree ; the Anceilours of thefe people were faid
to
be come
from far, and to have conquered m(!ny Provinces
in
their pa!fage untill they arri-
- ved at the Countrey of
Antahuaylla
;
the which they fubdued by force of Arms,
and expelled the ancient Inhabitants of it; and afterwards gaining much Land
from the
J2.f!.echu111,
they drove them
up ,
and ftraitned them in their Qganers ,
made them pay a Tribute, which they exalted with the highefi Tyranny, befides
many other famous
Atchievements~
of which their pofierity did greatly glory.
y
Of
all
which the
Inca Roca
being well informed, he thought them worthy of
his
Conquell: ;
fo
that fo foon
as
he arrived on the Confines of
.Antahuaylla,
he
dif–
patched his ufual Summons to the
Chancas,
requiring them
to
(ubmit
to
the O:ff–
fpring of the Sun, or otherwife prepare themfelves for battel. Thefe people af..
fembling together
-to
confider of thefe Summons, were divided
into
two feveral
Parties
and
Opinions. Some maintained that they ought not to refufe to receiv€
the
Inca
for their Lord,
who
was defcended from the Sun ; others who boafied of
their Lineage from
Leon,
were of
a
contrary perfualion ; for being Allied
to
Leon,
and Mafiers of many ,Countries
and
People, judged it
a
difparagement to be
fubje6ted to .any other, or to be cheated with a fabulous pretence of the Sun and
.his
Family; and that
it
was more agreeable to the Banners which they carried,
and
~he
ancient Honours which they had
acquir~d
by the Conquefi of
fo
many
Nauons, rather
to
fubdue others, than tamely
to
fubmit to an unknown Mafier ;
and
forgetting
all
/
their ancient bravery, poorly and bafely
to
yield rhemfelves
at
the. firfi Summons without
fo
much as an ap_pearance in the Field, or difplaying
their Banners would argue the highefi piece of degeneracy and cowardite of mind
in
the World.
In
this
ambigui~y
3f
mind
a~d
irrefolucion, fometirnes inclining
to
a forren ...
der~
and then agam to adventure a battel, the
Cha?Kas
perfifred many days ;- of
w.hich the
Inca.
having intelligence, determined to enter their Countrey, and af–
fr.1ghr _
t~em
\Y1th
th~
advance of his Anny ; for that perhaps to a people of their
~ifpo~uon,
who availed themfelves much upon their ancient Prowefs and ViB:o–
nes ; indulgence and gemlenefs would be argued as a point of fear and cowardife
~nd
that. therefore
~o
attempt .chem briskly was the ooely way to flrike a
terrou~
m them, and allomfh .them with the fear of a cruel War, and a fevere Punifhment
as an
e~ea
thereof; m purfuance of this refolution, he ordered his Major-Gene–
rals to m_vade the Countrey of
Antahuaya
;
and immediately upon i:heir entry to
fen~
their Summons t<? the
Chaneas,
telling them plainly, that they mufi either
rece~ve
the
Inca
for their Lord, or elfe muft prepare to offer their lives a facrifice
to
hIS
Sword .; for
cha~
their
concu~nacy ~nd r~bellion
was fuch as was not longer
tolerable, and that their delays and 1mpertmenc1es had already wearied his patience.
The
Cha~cas obfervin~
this
refolu~ion
of the
Inca.,
~nd
that the
!f2..t!_echuas,
and o–
ther
N~uons,
whom .m former t:imes
t~ey
had m1ured and provoked, judged ic
convenient to tef!lponze, and with a feigned fubmiffion to accept the conditions
of
urren~er, be~ng mov~d- th~reunto ou~
of fear of his force, and of that re–
venge "hich their
Er~em1es
might by thts opportunity take upon them,. rather
than out of any affechon or efieem they had to his
La'"'S
and Ordinances as
wil1
be proved hereafter
in
the-proceiS of this Hifiory.
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