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R.oyal Commentaries.
Book
Vl
CH AP.
XI.
Of other· Provinces which
th~
Inca
fuhdued; of their Man–
ners and
Cufioms,
and
the feverity
they ufed againfl
thofe
who
were
guilty
of Sodomy.
B
y
the fame good
policy
ihe
Inca C11pac rnpanqnl
allttred and invited
feveral
.
other Provinces to fubmiffion and Obedience, which extend themfelves on
both hands ofthe common road; atnongfi which the Provinces
of
principal note
and
confideration
were
Tanna
and
P;tmpu,
which the
Spaniards
call
Rom/Jon,
bein
very fertile
Soils,
and abounding with
all
forts
of'Fruir. Thefe being allured
by
fair
Words, and Promifes, gently fubmitced to che affable and courteous treat–
ment of
Capac
T11p11nq11i;
howfoever chefe people being warlike, and 1erce
by
Nature, did not entirely Jield co the perfuafions of their Enemies, but
ithfiood
them
in
fome Battels an Skirmifhes, though the Defence they made was ren–
dred more
faint
than
was
expeeted, by the Wheedles, and fine Words, and
Gifts
of rhe
Inca.
The Inhabitants of thefe Provinces of
Tanna
and
PompH,
and the borderers
up–
on
them,
did in fignal ofMatrimony, feal the Agreement with
a
kifs,
the ·Bride–
groom
kilf
mg the Bride on the Fore-head, or rhe Cheek. Widows could not
marry
within the Year, and iliore the Hair of their Heads
for a
fign of Mour–
ning.
The Men on their
failing
days neither ate
Flefh,
nor Pepper, nor Salt,
nor
accompanied with their Wives : Such as were Priells, or addicted themfelves
much to religious W orfhip, fafied the whole Year
in
this
kind of Abfl:inence.
In
this manner the
Inca
Capac Tupanqui
reduced the Provinces of
Tarma
and
Pompu,
with many others , lying Eafrward, near
Antu
;
the Natives of which
lived like Salvages, without Order, or Government, or Religion ; and as Brutes,
and Wild-bealls, were difperfed through the Woods and Mountains, killing one
the otber,
as
they cafually mnet, or encoutred, without knowing or affigning any
caufe or reafon
for
their Slaughters; thefe Men lived
in
a
fiate of common
War,
becaufe they were ignorant of the \lfefulne!S of. Peace; and having no Lord
Of
Ruler, had confequently no Name, their .Countrey being onely dill:inguifhed
by
the Climate or Pofition of the Place under fuch a
d~ee,
running thirty degrees
North and South, and as many
F.all:
and
W
efi. Thefe were with great.
facilicy
reduced
to
the Obedience of the
Inca;
for
being a fort of poor firnple
AnimalS,
which were eafily allured by the good was offered them, were
willing
to embrace
the Religion and Manners which were taught them, and to fuffer themfelves to
be
carried
co
any Place or Colony, where
the
Inca
iliould think fie to tranfport them.
Of
thefe Peqple nothing offers farther, nor of any other Province worrhy
to
be
related, until! we come to the Counrrey
<1f
Chucurpu,
which
v
as well peopled
with
a warlike Nation, barbarous and fierce in their Nature and manners; and
as
an evidence hereof, and
in
a conformity co
this
humour, they worfhipped a
Tyger
for their God.
•
The Fi rcenefs and natural Bravery of this Nation made them
to
fcorn all pro–
pofals of
Accommodation~
and bid Defiance to their Enemies;
fo
that
Capac
T11-
panqui
being put by his
Art
ofgentle Iufinuatlons, was forced to have recourfe
to
his Arm
and engaging
in
fevetal SkirmHhes, wherein above four thoufand
Indi–
ans
were
!lain,
they at length yielded and fubmitted themfelves
to
the invincible
Prowefs and force of the
Inca,
which yet had not
fo
great an influence over chem,
as had the gentle Temper and compaffionate Bowels of the
Inc1t;
for they being
fenGble,
tha·t
when
it
was in the hand of the
Inca
to have defiroyed, and totaJly
exterminated them , yet even then he ufed a tendernefs towards them , offering
them the conditions of an advantageous Peace; with a fenfe of which being
in
pare overcome, they a.ffented co an Accommodation, receiving
t
e
Jnca
P
achac11-
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