4000003870

Royal

Commentaries.

BooK

Vil .

Moreover by

this

courfe the

IncM

were fupplied with great quantities of

Mayz,

or maintenance of their Annies

that cold and barren Countrey;

that the

CollM

ere able to carry great quantities of

~inua

and

Chinu,

and great

flices of

that which

they

called

Charqui,

their

indred

other Plantations, and

ex–

change and barter

for

them, returned home laden with Mayz, and red

Pepper

and other

ruir

hich thofe Countries yielded ; ' hich ommodious way of

trad~

\Va

of great

nefit and confolation to the

JndianI.

Pcho

iefa

Leon,

the

9th

Chapter of

his

Book, difcourfing of

this

man-

. ner ofmutual

mrnerce, faith,

'' That

fruitfull

ears the Inhabitants of

Col–

/ao

live'

ith contentment and plenty,

but

dry yea1s they fuffer great wants

" and

fcarcity of all

rovilions. The truth · ,

had

not the

Incan-King

prefcribed

" excellent Lav;-'S for rhe government of this

eople, and ordered every thing

'' with a rovident and indufuious regard, certainly thefe Countries would have

' I

boured un er great enury and wants, and

perha~

have relapfed into the

fame

fiial condition, in\ hich they once were before the

times

of the

Incas.

And

thu much

affirm,

be aufe

know chat the

limate under which

the

Coll1U

in–

" habited, · cold, and therefore not fo fruitfull

the warmer Regions of

" happy

ounrrie . And

regard the mountain of

Ande.s

did b

order

all

" fides of thofe Colonies; it

ordered,

that

all parts !hould iifue

for.th

cer–

" tain number of

Indians,

ith their

es and Children, who bein

g plan

ted

ac..

cording

the dire

ion of their

Caciques

fuch places,

were convenient,

'' might im r

e their Lands, and by Indu!l:ry and

Art

ply chat

hich

was

. " ' anting y nature; which People!

ere called

Mtimaes,

and were

obedient,

'' and bfervant

their Lords and Captains, that to this day they are Drudges

" to them, their principal care and bufinef5 being

manure and cultivate the

Co–

Plantation , \

hich

are fo pretious and profitable, that though in all

CoDao

" they neither fm nor reap Mayz, yet neither the Lord , who are

acives, nor

" the Common People,

ho are indufrrious, do want fufficient quantities of

tv!~yz,

Honey, and all other

rui , in exchange

for

their

Coca.

Thus

far are

the Words of

Pedro de Ciefa,

trafud

ve-t'b;itim

from

his

Original

\¥

ritings.

Moreover they tranfplaoced the people fometimes on other occalions, when ha–

ving fubdued fame \ arlik and ftub om

ation, which being remote from

Co:u-o,

01ight be apt to rebelt then in fuch ca e

fufpicion or Jealoufie, to prevent all

danger of Mutinie

cheir prattice was,

tran plant the

~ople

from their

°"'

fo.l

fome other

Countre~

nearer, and \ ithin the reach of the

Inca,

where

finding themfelves encompatted ' ich loyal

ubjeCts, and friend

to the Govern–

ment_, more eafily fubmitted their

to the

oke, and a.became faithfull

aga inlt their o Yn Inclinations. When any of thefe

xchanges "ere made of

loni

, th

were alv ay a companied with Come of chofe \Yhom the firfr

Inca

Manco Capac

had honoured \ ith the

itle of being

Incas

by pri Hege; and thefe

were

a w reap ointed

go em and infuutt the others. The ride of thefe

Incas

wa an h nour

all thofe whom they

ompanied, fo that they were much

more h noured and refi ecred by the neighbouring and adjacent People. The

lonies whi h \\ere thus tranfplanced

ere called by the common

ame of

lV.fitmac.

Another piece of their olicy much conducing to the regul r Government of

their Empire,

\\as

omrnand and an lnjunCl:ion laid u on all their

Va~l

, ob–

liging them

learn the Language of the

urr, which to this day

called che

ommon or univerfal Tongue; for the teaching of' hich, certain Mafiers, who

IncM

by rivilege, were appointed and ordained to infiruet the eople

it;

befid which the

JnctU

had a

ourc-lan~age

appropriated to themfel e , which

being efieemed the holy and divine peech, was not to be prophaned by vulgar

ongues.

his, as they write me from

Peru,

is entirely lofi: ; for the Empire

rhe

Incas

eing ruined, their

anguage ran the common fate of their other Regali–

. The

eafons why the

lncan·Kings

did command that one common Lan–

guage fhould be ufed was for mo refpe&,

full:

to avoid the m ltitude of Inter–

p1·eter , which ' ould be neceffary for underftanding the variety of Languages

ken v ithio the

urifdiltion of that great Empire. And in the next pla e the

nctU

entertained a particular fatisfaCtion when they could peak their own words

unto