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Royal
Commentaries.
Boote. VJ. ·
in
the Families of their Parents and near Relations; who boafied and
rejoiced
much
in
the
proficiency
of their Sons, challenging to themfelves
a
fuare
in
their
commendat!ons;
for
they having _infirueted them
in
martial Exerdfes, how
to
manage their
Arms,
and make their Shoes, and educated them with hard!hip
re–
mote from effeminacy and foftnefs, did jufily triumph and glory,
that
having
per-
. formed their duty towards their Sons,
in
their Childhood, had now accompllihed
the with Abilities
to
ferve
their Countrey either
in
War or
Peace..
CH AP.
XXIX.
How
Chuquimancu,
a Lord of
four
Va/lies,
yielded
him–
felf.
B
u
T
to
return
again
now to the Reign anti
Conquefls
of
the
Inca
p
achllcHtec,
we are to underfiand, that the General
Capac T11panqui
having fubdued and
conquered the great
Curaca
Chin.cha,
fent
to the King his Brother
for
a new
Army,
whereby
he
might be enabled to overcome thofe Vallies, or Plain Countries which
prefented themfelves before
him.
The
I nca
with all readinefs fupplied
him
with
new Forces, commanded by good Officers, providing them with all
forts
of
Vic–
tuals and Ammunition, agreeable
to
the greatnefs of the Enterprife. The new
Army being come, with
which
alf
o the Prince
Yupanqui
returned, being very de–
firous to exercife and fignalize himfelf
in
the
'A'
ar ; the General of
Chin/ha
boldly
proceeded out of
his
Qgarters, and pofied himfelf
in
the pleafant Valley of
RH>ra–
huanac ;
which is as much
as
the
People~
Terrour, becaufe in the River which
runs
through that Valley many people had been drowned, who fuppofing the Wa–
ter
to
be
as
(hallow
in
the Winter as
in
the ummer, rather than go a League a–
bout by way of the Bridge, have foolifhly adventured to wade over
it ;
but the
Chanel being deep, and the Current rapid, have mofr rniferably perifhed in the
Waters. But the
Spanifh
Hiftorians give
this
Valley, and the River, the name
of
LunaJ!.uana,
by con·uption of three Letters of this Word ; one W
ricer
fays, that
the Word
Guano
fignifies mudd, or dung, becaufe
it
affords good Sullage,
and
gr~at
improvement
for
their arable Lands; but this
Letter
G.
ought to be
H.
fo
tHat the true word
is
H uano,
for the
Peruuian
Tongue doth not admit of
the Letter
G.
'
hich word
Ruano
fignifies
dreadfull; by this particular, and many other
in–
fiances that we could give, it
is
very apparent hovv little the
Spaniard1
underll:ood
that Language ; and what
grofs
mifiakes
a1fo
e Mongrels, or thofe
that
are
mixed of
Spanifh
and
Indian
Bloud,
did
like\'\ i[e make; for they taking the.accem:
in part from their Fathers, both
in
[peaking and writing
are
often guilty of
frrange
o ruptions;
\.vhich when
I
have ob[erved ,
I
ha
e endea cured to corrett
a–
mongfl: them, but to little purpofe , conGdering how prevalent converfation
is,
· nd the communication of a people to
'~ horn
they are fubdued, and become
Vaf..
fal.
I n rhofe days this Plain of
lumah111mac
was
greatly peopled,
as
alfo another
Low-–
ountrey lying to the Northward of it called
H11aYcu ,
'
hich
contained thirty
rhoufa nd Inhabitants;
in
iike manner
alfo
Chincha
was
inhabited, and other
Coun–
tries fimated North and South of
it ;
but now there are not t\VOthoufand Inhabi·
rams reputed
to
be there
in
all, and fome lie wholly defola ce, unlefs they be
fame
fe\
SpaniaYds
ho have taken
up
their dwellings
in
thofe parrs.
Having already related the Conquefi of
Tnncas,
we
are now to take notice,
that the Plain of
Runahuanac
with three others to the
orth\ ard of it called
flparca,
efalla, Chi/lea,
were all
in
fubjecHon
to
a great Lord called
Ch11quima11cu,
\
ho
ha–
ving fe\Teral of there
rovinces under
his
Jurifdiction prefumed co give himfelf the
,
itle of King, and by reafon of
his
Power claimed an Author
icy
and Dominion
over