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Commentaries.
BooK
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With the cares and fears of this Conqueft the
Inca, Yahuar-huacac
was
greatly
rurmoiled being as it were crucified between
his
hopes and fears, fometimes he
promifed
'bimfelf
good fuccefs, and that the fa_me Fortune would fmile upon
him,
that did on
his
Brother
Apu Zvfyata;
then agam the dread of the fatal Omen
pof–
feifed his
Mind,
which always kept tbat a e upon him, that he never durfi: at·
tempt
any thing
in
War,
wherein there appeared leafr Difficulty or
Hazard.
Wbilfi he
~ as
thus toffed with thefe Paffions and anguHh of mind, he
was
di-
. verted from his foreign Defigos by domefiick Troubles, caufed by the untoward
Difpofition of
his
Elaeft Son, and Heir ofhis Dominions; who from
his
Child–
hood gave fympromes of an evil and cruel Nature,
b>-:
his.
harfh
treatment of
tbo[e
Boys of his own age, who converfed and played w1th
him;
and though the
Inca
his Father ufed all the means imaginable
to
reclaim him by due and fevere
correClion, and
that
he hoped that Years and Infiruction would prevail upon
him
yet in the end all proved vain, and without effeet; the ferocity of
his
Mind, and
the·impernofity of his
ill
Nature prevailing over
all
the
means,
and endeavours
to reduce him;
for
neither
the
Examples of
his
Ancefiours, nor the gentle
Ad–
monitions, nor fevere ReproofS of
his
Father, had any influence upon
him;
fo
that his de[perate incorrigiblenefs became now the greatefi: fear and affiittian
of
the
Inca.
For
fo
far was the Spirit of
ill
Nature engrafred in the Heart of this
Prince
that all the Treacle of wholefome Advice he converted into Poifon; the whid;
his Father having obferved and duely confidered, he refolved wholly to difcoun...
renance and remove him from
his
Favour, and if that would not operate, hen
abfolutely to difinherit him, and confiitute another of his
lawfull
Sons in h· place
who was of a Spirit more agreea le to that fweet Temper and generous Galan:
try
of his Ancefl:ours. Thi Refolution e took in imita ·on of that Cufio1ne
praeti[ed in fame of his Provinces, where
the
moft favoured and mofi worthy
was eletted to the Government; the ' hich on
this
occafion the
Inca
was defi–
rous to introduce, ag1inft all the
recedents and Examples of former
lncM.
With
this
inten ·on the
Inca
c mmanded the Prince, being now of nineteen or twenty
Years of age, to avoid the Court, allotting him a place of Refidence about a
League from the City, and where were
fair
and verdant Pafiures Eafiward
from the City, \\ hich they called
Chita,
and where I ·my
[elf
remember often
to have been, and where his Employment was
to
feed the Cattle of the Sun
in company with thofe Shepherds who were defigned for that Service.
Th~
Prince not being able to refill: the Pleafure of his Father , fubmitted to the
Ba–
nHhment and the Disfavour of the
h 1ca,
which
laid.asa punilhment on him for
the Bravery
~d
Gallantry of his Martial >pirit.
Inibort, he fubmirted and
r~ally
applied himfelf with the other Shepherds to keep and feed the Cattel of the
un for the [pace of three years, and more , where we
will
leave him untiJl
the
time comes \ hich fhall bring him on the Stage, and to fpeak well of him
if
that
which we are to mention of him may be called good.
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