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Royal
Commentaries•
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IV.
The
Inca,
leaving
his
Officers to receive their fubmiffion , proceeded' forward
in
his
Conquefis to another Province called
Vramarca,
which
alfo
is
furnamed
Chanea,
and is a fmall Conntrey, but
v~ry
populous, and in bited .
by
fuch a
hardy
and war-like Nation ; that had their Numbers been equal to their Courage,
they had been capable
to
have made a ftout and conliderable refifia ce ; for
tnat
the people on thls fide were not fo eafie, and fimple, and fond of
t
e
lncas
and
cheir Government, as were th?fe of
Crmtif.uyu
and
Collafayu;
howfoever, (
0
be
fhort tbofe of
Vramarca
fubrrutted, but
with
much reluttancy, and
agamfi
their
inc~ations.
Thence the
Inca
marched forwards to the people called
Hanco
·
a/lo
and
Pi/lea
named
by
the
SpAniards Vslcas,
who with the fame unwillingnefs yiel–
ded to
th~
power of the
I~ca
;
f
or t~at thefe people, being all
Chancas,
'
ere Lords
themfelves of divers
Provm~~,
which.byfor~e
of
~ms t~~Y
had fubdued, and
did
daily
enlarge their Dom1mo
ns; withwhich therr ambmon and covetoufnefs
increafing,
they
could not, without difficulty, forego their Ufurpations and
Ty–
ranny over others, to yield themfelves
to
the fame conditions ;
the which re–
fraCl:ary
humour of theirs the
Inca J!.oca
o~ferving, ~eproved.
in them_
wi~
fevere
reprehenfio ; and though they r
eceivedhis
Admomtions
with
Moruficanon and
Anger, yet they durft not openly
o.wnand. difcover the!r dHlike.
In.
bot~
tl?efe
Provinces their cufl:ome was to Sa
crificeChildren to their Gods at therr prmc1pal
Feafis; ofwhich the
Inca
being
informed, he made
a
difcourfe to
them
of
the
in–
humanity and
unreafonablene!S
of Cuch a cuftome, and that for the future they
fhould Adore the Sun for their God , and receive the Statures and
Ordinances
which he had given them ; declaring to them by
his
own mouth; that he would
exalt the life of every Child at their hand , whom they fhould
in
that manner
attempt to defl:roy
5
and that
in
punifhmeot for the offence, he would defiroy
and root out their whole Nation, and give their Countr
y
to be inhabited
by
a
better fort of people, of more
bov~
els and compaffion, wl o fhould love
and
che–
ri!h their own bloud, as nature required them. Nothing could come more dole–
full and fad, than this
news
to
the Ears of thefe people, who were perfuaded by
the Devils, whom they woriliipped
for
their
Gods,
that
this
Sacrifice
of
tender
Infants was mofi acceptable of any to the Infernal Powers.
From
Vi/lea
be took the
way
on the left hand, and marched Wefl:ward,
to–
~
ards the Sea·coafr, and entred
one
of thofe two Provinces, which are both fiy..
led by the
name
of
SHlla,
though for difiinCtion fake one of them is called
Vt11m-
folla :
thefe two Provinces comprehend under
them
many Nations
of
different
Names, forne of them
being
full of people, others having but
fe~.
And in the
H1ftorie of thefe matters, to avoid tedious
dilcourfes,
they report? that the Num-
·
her of them might
be
of about forty thoufand
Families;
in tne fubduing of
which,
the
Jnca
is faid
to
have
f
pent
much
time, and fome
report
three years
~
\ hich were chiefly taken up
in
the
erfuafions and
gehrle
Arts which the
Inca
ufed for r
ducing
of. that people,
being
more defirous
nquer them by kind–
nefs, than the feventy of Aims.
or thofe
Indians
confiding much
in
their own
Number , and Art of War, did often
i'ndine
to a breach, and a defence of
tbem–
felves ; but that. the .moderation of the
Inca,
and his prudent conduet of affairs
~ ~s foe~,
that with time he reduced them to his fervice, and a willingnefs co re–
ceive htS Laws, and fuch Governours and
Minifiers
as he was pleafed
to
c-0nfii–
tute over them ; and
then
~fterwards
with this fuccefs and vietory he recurned
to
Coz.co.
In
thefe mo
Prov~nces
of
Sulla
and
Vtum[ulla,
there were about thirty
two years pafl:, fome very nch Mines difcovered of Silver and Qg!ck-lilver · the
latter of which
is
very ufefull
in
Melting the SilverOre.
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C H· A P.