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V.~ .
Royal.
Commentaries.
ing
all
the ways with Flowers, expreffmg the joyfulnelS oftheir .hearts, _after the .cu–
ftome of their Counrrey, and as was ufual at their greatefi Feilivals.
In
thefe vifits
me
Inca
fpent three years, not omitting at the due feafons to celebrate the Feafis of
the Sun which they called
Raymi,
and
Citua:
And though they could not
be
per..
formed'with fuch Solemnity as at
Caz.co,
yet in compliance with their Religion ,
they expreffed
t~eir
Devotion
wi
~ fuchRites and Ceremonies, as the
circumftan~
ces of time and place would admit.
.
.
And now having accomplHhed his ProgrefS,
he
returned to the
City,
where
his Prefence was greatly defired, as the Protetlour and Defender of
it,
or rather
as he who had laid a new foundation of an abandoned and ruined place
:
And
therefore the Court and
City
aifociated together with new Sonnets and Panegy–
ricks, compofed
in
his
praife,
to
meet ano conduet their Adored King
to
his
place
o(
Refidence.
CH AP.
XXVI.
_
The Valiant
Hanco... huallu
flies out of the Empire of the
Incas.
T
H
us,
in
the manner
which
we have declared,
this
Inca
travelled twice through
all
Q!ar~ers
of his Dominions; and when that in
his
fecond Progrefs
he
paffed through the Province of the
ChichtU,
which is the mofr remote part of
Peru
to the Southward, News was'brought him of the flight of the brave
Hanco–
huallu;
at which he
was
greatly concerned, wondring at the reafon, or caufe,
for
'
fuch
a
refolution.
'
This Man,
it feems, was
King
of the-
ChanctlJ;
and though for nine or ten
Years he had proved the gentle Government of the
I ncas,
who
in
revenge, or pu–
nifhment, of his late offence, had not diminifhed the leafl: point of
his
Power or
J
urifdietion ; but rather, on the contrary, treated
him
with due honour and re–
f
pea ; yet in regard that he and his Forefathers had reigned as abfolute Lords
and Princes over many Nations, whom they had fubdued by their Arms and
Power ; his generous fpirit could not yield to any Subordination, or hold
his
Coumrey in feud to
a
Sup~rionr :
He alfo envied the
.t2.!!_echua.r
for the Efieem
they had gained in the favour of the
Inca,
by the Services, which
in
the late
War
they had performed ; and by whofe means and affill:enre the Vicrory was wrefied
from himfelf: Nor could he endure to behold that people which was Inferiour, and
once truckled to him, to fiand now
in
equality, and in competition with him for
Honour and Power : the which unpleafing imaginations
fo
poffeffed his difquiet
mind, ·that contrary to the fenfe and opinion of the Lords and Nobles of
his
C~untrey,
he refolved to purchafe his own Liberty, and abfolute Power, though
with
the lofs and refignat1on of the Efi:ate he poffeifed
in
his own Dominions.
In.order hereunto he imparted his Refolutions to certain
Indians.,
who were his
Friends,
and faithfull
td
his Intereft
~
giving
them
to underfiand
that he could
not fupport
a
SubjeCtion to the
Will
and Dominion of
another~
and t erefore
was refolved to Abandon
his
Native Patrimony and Inherita ce
to rec
1
er an
Abfolute Sovereig.nty
in
remote parts, or dye in profecution of
it.
This
defign
of
Hanco-h11a~u b~mg ru~oured
abroad amongfr his people ,
it
was
agreed,
iliac
fu~h
Men. as
mclmed to hi:; party, iliould,
witli
their Wives and Children, depart
privately
m
fmall Comparues, left Numbers of People and Troops fhould make
a noife, and give jealoufie to the
Inca
;
and that at length they iliould affemble and
meet at a ge.neral Rendezvous
in
fame place beyond the Dominions of the
I nca
1
\ here he
hirnfelf would follow
after
them , and appear
in
the Head of them as
A
a
rheir
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