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BooK
IV.-
Royal
Commentaries.
I·
CH AP.
xx.
Of
the
Inca, Y
ahuar--
huacac,
who was the
feventh
[(ing
; ·
of his
Fe.~rs
and Conque(ls, and the Difgrace of
the.
Prince
his
Eldefl Son.
T
HE
King,
Inca Roca,
being dead, his Son
Tabuar-bu_acac
fu~ceede~
him in
the Inheritance of
his
Kingdom, and governed with
J
u!hce, Piety and
Gentlenefs, cherifhing his Subje&With as much. indulgence
~nd
tenderoefs, as
was poffible.
Hi9
chief delign.was to keep
a~d
preferve what his Father and An- ·
. ceftours had left him not feeking quanels with any, or encroachments on others
•right; lefl:
coptemni~g
the
ill
omen of his Name, and the misfofru_nes which the
.,
slillfull Mailers in Divination did daily prefage, he fhould tempt his fortune, and
provoke his Father the Sun
to
affiict him
wit~
all thofe evils which
d~ey prog~o-
fiicated.With this fear and apprehenGon he lived for many years, definng no.thing
more than peace and quiemefs, both
a~ . hom~ ~°:d
abroad; but not. to remam. al-
together idle, he vifited all parts 9f his Dominions three or four tunes, and
1m·
proved and adorned them with frately Buildings, .feafied, and
~eneraHy
c reffed
all his Subjects in a higher degree, and with greater demonfirauons of love and
tendernefs, than any of
his
Ancefrours, which were effects of the great dangers he
~
apprehended from the Prophecies concerning him ; and in this
caurio~
and dread
upon his Spirits, he continued for the fpace of nine or ten years: unnll at length
t:onfidering that this cautious timidity would argue Cowardife and lownefs of
Spi-
rit, ofwhich none of his Ance!l:ours were ever before taxed, he refolved to fend
an Army of t ency t00u1and Men
to
the Southwell: of
Coi:,co,
along the Coall: of
Arequepa
V\
here a point of Land runs out far into the Sea, which his Predecef-
fours had o erfeen, or negleeted, becaufe it was
ill
inhabited: His Brother, cal-
led
ln•a
Mayta,
he made Commander in Chief of his Forces> and for that reafon
was ever afterwards called
Apu
Mayta,
or General
Mayta,
to whom he added
four other
lncM.,
to be Major-Generals under him: But as
to
himfelf, he would
not adventure to go in Perfon ; for the thoughts of the
ill
Omen did
fiill
fo
haunt
and opprefs his Spirits, that he could never refolve to trull: the fuccefs of any
mar·
tial adventure to the fortune of his own Perfon; and where the defire of Glory
fpurred him forward to
any
great Attempt, there always the dread of the finill:er
Omen retraeted and drew him back. This apprehenfion moving him
to
com-
mit the charge of his Army
to
his Brother, and Officers, they. proceeded
fo
fuc-
cefsfully in it, that
in
a
il1ort time they reduced all that tract of Land from
Are-
quepa
to
Tacama,
which they call
Collafuyu,
to his Empire, being at this time the
.utmoll: Limit and Confine
by
the Sea-coafi ofthat Counrrey which they call
Peru,
the which Land being long, and narrow, and
ill
peopled, coll: tnore time to
march it over than to conquer it.
·
This Enterprife being thus happily completed , they returned again to
Coi:,co,
where they rendred an account to the
Inca, Yahuar-huacac,
of their fuccefs ; with
which taking heart, and recovering new courage, he began to afpire to the Ho–
nour and Fame of reducing thofe great Provinces, yet unconquered in the Divi–
fion of
Collafuyu,
called
Caranca, V!laca, Llipi, Chica, Ampar1t,
the which, as they
were large? and great, fo they were populous, and defended by a warlike Nation;
and for tl:is. r_eafon the ancient
lncM
forbore to'molefi: or irritate them, lefi being
as yet uncivilized, and unacquainted with the gentle and eaGe Government of the
IntM,
they
!h~uld
fly
to their
~rms,
and oblige the
IncM
againfi their Maximes;
and natural
D1~ofiuon,
to ·fub1ett: them with Slaughter and De.firuttion; and
therefor~
rather
chof~
to
t~me
and mollifie them
by
degrees, and prevail by the
cl~ar
Evidences
pf
their Neighbours Happinefs, to perfuade them into a good opi..
ruon of the gentlenefs of that Yoke which the
Jnca
iinpofed on his Subjetts.
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2.
With