4000003870

Royal

Commentaries.

BooK

Vil.

The

lnca1

report, that

when they

came

into

that

Countrey by reafon of

the ma–

SkirmHhes

they had pa!fed, and the

Difficulties

they had encountted, their

Ar–

was

reduced to a very

mall

number; howfoever they attempted to perfuade

the

Muf

co fubmit unto the

Inca

whorn the Sun

as .Father, and who

had

fent him from Heaven

teach Me

the way of

rational and moral Life ;

that

being

Men,

they fhould not appear like

Beafis,

but adoring the

Sun for God

they fhould forfake the

orfhip of Srocks and Stones,

and

other vile and

inani~

mate Creatures. The

Incas

obferving that the

M ufm

gave attention to them,

were

encouraged to make known

their

Laws and Cuftoms to them, and recount

the

great

Atchi~vements

and Conquefts, which their Kings had made, with

v hat

Provinces had voluntarily, and of their own accord, offered themfelves to

the

Obedience and Service of the

I11c11t,

defiring

him

take them under

his

protea.ion,

lhis People and Worfhippers of

his

Deity.

It is moreover reported, that the

I nca.t

particularly declared

them the Dream of

Piracocha,

and his great Aetions.

At the hearing ofall which, it

faid chat the

M u["'

were fo all:oniilied, that they

readily accepted the friendibip of the

I nca1,

and embraced their Religion,

Laws

and Statutes with great Devotion, promiling to be governed by them, and to ac–

knowledge no other than the Sun

for

their principal God. Howfoever they refu..

fed

be efteemed for Vaffills of the

Inca,

having not been conquered by him;

but were proud

be accounted

his

Allies, Frie_nds and Confederates. Under

pretext ofwhich Friendfhip, the

Mufu.r

gave leave to the

l nca.t

to live and inhabit

their Countrey; for there not remaining above a thoufand of them, they did

not apprehend any danger of being fubdued or enflaved by them, and therefore

freely gave them liberty to cake their Daughters and Kindred for theirWives, and

having a

great

Veneration and Efieem

for

their Perfons and \Vifedom, they com–

mitted the government of all things into their hands, both of

War

and Peace.

Upon the Foundation of this new Alliance , and at their

~fuafion,

they fent

Ambaffadours

Cozco,

to adore the

Inca

as the Off-fpring of

the

San, and to con·

firm

that Friendfhip and Alliance which they had conrratted

with

his Subje&;

taking a great compalS in their way thither, to avoid the high Mountains,

marHh

grounds and bogs, which were not paffible

thedirett line. Thefe Ambafiadours

being arrived at

Couo,

were received by the

Inca

with

all

imaginable kindnefS and

favour ; commanding that care .iliould be taken to inform and infiruct them

the manner of his Courts, his•Laws, Statutes and Religion; with which the

M n...

JU!

receiving great fatisfattion, returned again to their own CDuntrey, with refo.

lotion to maintain this Friendfbip and Confederacy

happily begun, which con–

tinued untill the time that the

Spaniardt

invaded and ove1 came their Gmntrey.

Particularly it is reported of thefe

Incas,

who planted themfelves

the Countrey

of the

M11f

that the Children defcended from them, defiring to return to

Coi:,co

in the time of

Huayna Capac,

for that finding

all

things quiet in the .Councrey of

M u[m,

and no danger of

any

revolt, the natural defire of vifiting the Countrey

of their ore-fathers, 1nvited chem to

carry

their Wives and Children unto

Coz:co;

but in their

~~y

thither receiving news

that

Huayna Capac

was dead, and that the

Spaniards

po!fefied the Land, having fubverted and utterly defiroyed the Empire

of the

I ncas;

they altered their deiign, refolving to return again to the

MPfm,

where they were ever afterwards higbly efieemed, and held

Veneration, and

all matters both of War and Peace committed to their management.

faid

chat the River

in thoie

parts

fix

Leagues

broad, and that their

C1moes

are two

days in paffing over

it.

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