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Royal
Commeil,taries.
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Of
the
Gratuities 'tPhich .the Prince
Inca
Viracocha
hefloweJ
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on his Souldiers after the ViClory.
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T
H E
JnctU
finding · their Enemies
to
fa~l,
an
treat,
crie~
out the
mo~e
violently, invocating.the Name o
Suti~
Inca 'f7iracocha
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which was
the
V1-
fion that appeare.d
to
the Prince, and therewith firenuoufly mvaded the Enemy,
fubduing them with mere violence and dint of Sword ; great
numb~rs
and
heaps
were
flain
and thrown one on the
~ther
; the remamder turned their backs, and
fled,
·not being able
co
make farther refifience. The Prince
havin~
purfued the
Enemy a-while, caufed a retreat
to
be founded, and Command given to defifi:
from farther flaughter, the
Vicrory
being already evident and complete; and then
the
Prince
in
Perfon ran through the Plain where
.th~
Battel was fought, giving
order to
bury
the dead, and to take care that the wounded and difa led fhould be
·cured: To
me
Prifoners he freely gave liberty and licence to return into their own
Countries, proclaiming Mercy and Pardon unto all. The Bartel continued for the
fpace of
@ight
hours, being fought with fuch courage· and
~efolution,
that the
Bloud
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did not onely Dye the Fields, bat the fireams of itoverflowed the Banks ofaBrook
which ran rhrqugh the Plains; for which caufe they -gave the Name of
Yahuar.
Pampa
to that place, "which figoifies as much as the Field ofBloud.
In
this
Fight
erewere thirty thoufand
Indi1tns
flairi, eight thoufand of which were of the fide
of
the
Incas,
the
refr
were •fuch as took part with the Rebels, confifiing of feve–
ral Nations of
Chanca,
viz.
HanchohuaUu,
Vramarca,
Vilka
and
Vntunfu/!11,,
with
or
hers.
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Hanchohu11llu
having received a
flight
wound, was carefully cared ; and bejog ta–
ken Prifoner with two others of his chief Officers, were refervea for the greater
glory and oftentation ori
th~
day of Triumph, which
was
afterwards with great
Solemnity performed. But fome few days after this Battel,
a
Uncle of the P.rince
with much gravi
reproved the bold infolence of thofe Prifoners, ·for daring
to
raife
themfelves
up
againfi the Family of the Sun; who,
tha~
they might appear
invincible, the very Stones and Trees, by virtue of the Sun
w~re
transformed in–
to Me.n, .as was apparent in the lafi: Battel, and would again be made mani.fefr
fo
often, as Enemies and Rebels fhould dare to
lift
up their hands and armes againll:
the Divine Race. Many other Stories and Fables he recounted in fav.our
of
the
. Incas;
condudiRg
as
the
furn
of
all,
that
they were obliged .in duty to render ·a
·thoufand thanks to the Sun
for
fending his Gratious. Children into the World,
commanding them to ufe compaffion and mercy, and to receive the Rebellious
Ind~an.1
_unto pardo_n
;·fol'
which reafon the Prince did not qnely confer npon them
the~
Lives as
a
gift? but
.r~fi.ore
them
alfo rp
their Ellaces and Dwellings, and
then-
Curacas
to
their
Domm1on and Goverrnnent, though the crimes they had
committed deferved
no
lefs
than Death; conditionally, that
for
the future
they
· .. behave thernfelves as good Subje&, -lefi
1
by
a
fecond offence they provoke the
S~p
to
avenge the firfi, and caufe the Earth to open its bowels, and fwallow them
alive. After.this Lecture
the
Curacas
\Yith prc:found humility acknowledged the
favour, prom1fing all Loyalty, Duty and Obedience
for
the future.
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After this Vi&ory the
Inca
Viraqocha
imii.iediately difpatched away
tlu~ee Ex~
preffes; One of
them
was
fent
to the Temple of the Sun, to inform him of the
good news of this Vietory, which by his aid and fuccour they had obtained; for
though they efl:eemed the Sun for
(?
God,
fet
in
all
refpetts they treated him as a
Man, and as one who had need of intelligence and information of matcers
which
fu~ceeded.;
befides which,
th~y
formed other grofs conceptions of him; as to
drink
to
him;
and that he
might
pledge theni
again
on their
Fefiival-days,
they
fill~d
a Golden Cup with Liquo
, which they fee in a part of the Temple;
which was mo
fl
open
to
the Sun-beams ; and what was exhaled
by
that heat
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