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J.
Royal
Commentaries.
B o oK
VI
v as of Eminence
in
their
condition,
and
of
Wealth and
Politene1S
in
the manner
of their living.
What
wa~
praCtifed in the City of
this
kind was
alfo
imitated
in
the Countries
the refpective
CuractU
llliring up tbe people to demonfirate
by
their outward
ge~
ftures and altions, their inward ·Corrow and paffioa for the death
of
•their
Inca.
With thefe ries and Lamentation they went to vifit all the places within their
Province, where at any time their
Inca
had pitched hi Camp, or made his abode
or retidence, though
b for
a night; and there
t
1e all
with
loud
Lamentations
r~ated
the Favours, and Honours, and Benefits that he had performed for them
~
in that place. And thus much
fi1all
ferve
to
have faid
couching
the Funeral
'Of
the
Inc&,
in imitation of which, fomething of this nature was performed
in
h~
nour of their
Caciques,
of which
I
remember
to
have feen fome paffages
in
the
time
of
my
infant Years; for in the Province of the
fl!ech11tU,
I once
faw
a mul–
titude of people gathered in a field, to lament the Dea of a
Caciqne,
carrying
his
Garments upon Poles,
in
fafhion
of Banners, or Enfignes
5
my
curiofity
promp–
ted me
to
ask them what all that noife and tumult meant
5
co which they anfwe–
red me, tha
it
was the Funeral Lamentation of
Hnamam-pallpa,
for fo they cal-
led the deceafed
Cacique.
•
.
.
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CH. AP.
VI.
Of
the General
and Solemn Huntings which
the flings
made
in all parts
of
their /(ingdom.
T
HE Kings of
Peru
enjoyed, ' ith their other pares of Greatnefs and State,
certain days appointed for olemn and General Huntings, called
in
their
Tongue
Chacu.
And herein
it
is
to be obferved, that all fores of Game were for–
bidden
to
be killed,
unle~
Partridges> Pidgeons, Doves, or lefier Birds, for the
Service and Table onely of the
lnctU,
who were Governours, or of the
<;uractU;
nor was thus much permitted neither, but under a limited quantity, and
by
com·
mand and order
alfo
of the
J
ufiice.
This prohibition was obferved under tpe fame penalties chat
all
other obfer-
ance of their La .were enjoined, and herein they
\:
ere
rigorou ,
and fevere,
lefl: Men betaking themfelves to the
pleafure
of the
ield, fhould
delight
in
a con–
tinued courfe of fporcs, and fo negleet the neceffary provifions and maintenance of
their Families.
~
By
which firilt efrraint the Game both of Birds and Bealls was
fo
common,
and
in
abundance, and tame, that they enrred even into their Houfes; where
chough they could not kill th6lll, yet howfoever
they
might affiight and drive
them out
of
their ields and Pafl:ures; for that though the
Inca
was Mafier of
the Game,
yet
be loved his Subje& better than to ha' e them prejudiced
by
Laws
which were made for the good, and not for the detriment of
liis
People.
At a certain feafon of the Year, afcer breeding-time was over, the
Inta
ap–
pointed a place for Hunting, where either his own pleafure direeted, or where
was moft convenient for his Affairs, either of War or Peace; and there he ap–
pointed
20
or
30000
l ndian.r
to
encompafs all that fpace of Land, which was de–
figned for the Hunt ; half of whom taking to the Right-hand, and the other half
to
the
Left,
were to beat
twenty
or
thirty
Leagues round,
by
the fides of Ri–
vers, and Brooks, and through woody and mountainous p]aces, wherefoever
the
limits
and bounds of the chafe
did
extend, but
by
no
means were
they
co
touch or encroach on other Lands, which were laid out for the Hunt of the
following
year.
hus
they
went beating and
peeping into
every
bufh,
and when
•
they
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