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Commentarie1.
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VI.
G HA P. X .
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The
Inca Pachacutec
vijits feveral parts of his Entpire,
anl
conquers the Nation of
Huanca.
T
HE
Inca Viracocha
being dead,
Pachttcntec,
his
legitimate Son and Heir, fuc–
ceeded
in
the Empire, and having folernnly performed the funeral Rites
of
his
Father, he refided for three Years at
his
Court, attending to the due admini–
ftration of his Government. Afterwards he took a
progre~
into
all
parts of
his
Dominions, paffmg orderly from one Province to another ; and though the pre–
fence of the
Inca
might feem of no moment,
in
regard the Lords, and.Govemours
were
fo
diligent, and faichfull to their trufi, that rhe
Inca,
in
all the way he
ttavel–
led, received no complaints from the _people ofAggrievances and Opprefiions,
laid illegally on them b¥ their Rulers; for the frequent appearance of the
Inca
at
certain times, did
fo
overa\'
1
le
the Minifiers, that they were fearfull to alt any
thing which was not permitted to them by Law or Equity. Moreover the ap–
pearance. of the
Inca
perfonally before his Subje&, gave them the opportunity
to
prefer their Petitions, and offer their Complainrs by way. of immediate Addrefs,
which was much more beneficial to the Subje&, than to have their Aggrievances
made knmx. n by a third hand, which by favour or friendiliip might difguife rhe
laments, and make lnju(lices appear lefs. than they were, to the prejudice of the
Plaintiffi; and herein fuch care "'as taken, that never any people,
ho lived by
· the mere Light of Nature, and Law of.Reafon , did ever furpafs the equitable
proceedings of the
Incai
j
which indifferency, and unbiaffed judgment, gained
chem that lo e of their people, that even to this day, and to many future Ages,
ill
their Memory be fweet and pretiou. At the nd of three Years this
In
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remrne again to his
ity,
and left he ibould feem to fpend all his time
in
Peace
and Repofe, he judged it convenient to attend at length unto military Exercifes,
and gain the Reputation of a Souldier by War, as '
1
ell
as
of. a civil and jufi Go–
vemour in the time of Peace; ro this end he raifed an Army of thirty thoufand
. Meo,
·ith \\
hich together '' ith bi Brother
Cap1tc
Tupanqui,
a valiant Man, and
"' ottpy of that name, he marched through all the Divifion of
Chinchafuyu,
un-
...
till
he came to
Vt/lea,
which "as the utmoft extent on that fide of their Con–
queft.
There he remained himfelf, '' hilft he fent his Brother
with
an
Army
well fur–
nifhed with all provifion of VVar, into the Province called
Saufa,
which the
Spa–
niards
corruptly call
Xauxa,
which is a moft pleafant Countrey, containing aboot
·
thirt} thoufand inhabitants, ali of the fame Lineage and
ame of
Huanca.
They
oafied themfelves to be defcended from one Man, and one Woman,
which
they
fay
d their Original from a Fountain; they were a
fort
of fierce and "'arlike
op e fleaing thofe ' horn
t:h~y
took in the
Wars,
the Skins of which they
fil–
ed
\Yith
Allies, and hanged them up in their Temples, for Trophies of their
'ittories; with the SkinS of forne
they
made Drums, being of opinion, that the
found of them '' ould terrifie and affiight their Enemie . Thefe though they were
a fmall people, yet had
w
ll fuengthen d and fortified themfelves, for being all
of one
ation
ey
united their loterefts to en roach on the Lands and Territo–
ries of their
eighbours; and to make that good \\ hicb they had acquired, they
rtified themfc Ives in fuch places of Defence, as were accuftomary •
thofe
ounrri
.
In
e tim
f
their an ·ent Gentilifm before they
'~ere
reduced under
rbe
po er of the
b1ca,
they' ' rfhipped the Image of a Dog
in
their Temples, eating
rh
efh of og for the gr atefi rarity and d
licacy
in
the
orld ;
fo
that
it
is
belie\ e · their A petite
to
og
-fl
fh
was the original of their Devotion,
which
·as
fi
gr
t
to that
eafi; h
r e moft
fol
mn eafis and Entertainments were
ferved