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for their fupreme Lord and Mafier, embracing his Laws and Cufioms, and
forfaking their God the Tyger,_ they were ever after c<?ntented to adore the Sun,
and live after the manner of
his
Followers and W oriluppers.
This fierce and refolute people having received Conditions and Terms of Peace_,
and fubmitred themfelves to the Obedience of the
Inca, Capac Tupanqui,
efieemed
his fuccefs herein
to
be a great piece of his Arr, and an Effetl: of his good Con–
duet as well as of his Fortune ; for had they perfill:ed in that obfiinate refolurion
of dying
as
one Man, the defuuction and flaughter of this whole People, would
have blafied that good opinion which the World conceived of the Gentlenefs
and Mercy of the
Inca;
and on the oth'er fide for the
Inca,
on confideration ofCom–
paffion and good Nature,
to
have defitl:ed from his Conquefts, and left them free,
would have argued Cowardife, or want of power to fubdue them;
fo
that ufing
force, and
fair
terms, equally between thefe two extremes all matters were re–
conciled, and the Province of
Chucurpu
received into friendfhip: And
fo
confii–
tuting Teachers to infl:rutl: them in Religion, and Governours
to
rule them accor–
ding
to
Law; Garrifons and Souldiers were fee over them,
to
confirain and con–
tinue them in their Obedience. Thence taking the right-hand from the great
Road, with the fame good Fortune and Conduet, he reduced two other Pro–
vinces, large and populous, the one was called
Ancara,
and the other
HuayllM,
in
which, as
in
the others, he left Teachers, and Governours, and Souldiers, to keep
them
in
Awe and Obedience.
In
the Province of
HuaylltU
fome accufations were
brought againfi certain Perfons, who fecretly praCl:ifed that abominable fin of
Sodomy; which wickednefs having not been as yet known amongfi the
Indians
of
the
hilly
Countries, though in the Plains it had fome times been tecrecly praCti–
fed, gave fuch a general fcandal
to
all
that heard of
it,
that they detefi:ed the So–
d e
y
of the
HuayllM,
and
in
common Reproach and Derifion of that Nation
would commonly fcoff at them, and fay,
Aftaya H11aylltu,
which
is
as much, as
faugh, be gone
HuaylltU,
thou fiinkefi, and art loathfome; fuch deteftation had the
Indians
of this fin, though
it
were aeted in fecret, and had already been feverely
pun·ilied by the
Inca Cttpac Yupanqui;
who having performed what we have rela–
ted, and made fufficient provifion for fecurity of his Conquefl:s, which reached
feventy Leagues in length North and South; and all the Plains in breadth to the
~oot
of the fnowy Mountain, he thought
it
convenient afcer three years, fince the
nme he had departed from
Couo,
to return again
to
the City, where his Brother
!'
achacutec
received him with favour and kindnefs, commanding the People to re·
Joyce for the fpace of a whole Moon, (for the
Indians
make
the
account of their
Months by Moons) and to celebrate their fefiival with triumphal fports for the
vietories obtained.
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