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VII.
Royal Commentaries.
CH·
AP.
xv.
Of the Remains which are flill
0
apparent of that Expe
dition.
.
.
T
HE
particulars of this Conquefi and Difeovery made by the
Inca Yupanqui,
which we
have
recounted in brief, were afterwards more at large related
by
the
Indians,
boailing much of the mighty Alls and Valour of their Aiicell:ours;
telling
us ofBattels which they fought upon the
W
acer, and on the Banks of the
River, and of the many Provinces they fubdued, and ,many other Enterprifes,
which
feem incredible
to
have been performed
by
a handfull ofMen ; and becaufe
that
hitherto the
Spaniards
have not been able
to
make tbemfelves Mafiers of the
people
abouc
the
Antu,
how much lefs can it be pointed out to us, the way and
means that thefe few
IncM
took to fubdue and reduce thefe fiurdy Nations; and
therefore
f
mce thefe things feem incredible, we that defign to write a true Hifio–
ry,
have not thought fit to mix Fables with our true Relations, efpecially of
things
which being aCl:ed
in
remote and unknown parts, could not come fo di–
ftinttly to our cognizance, as thofe which were aeted in the Precinets of our own
Countrey. Though the truth is, the
Spaniards
have in our time found many Evi–
dences and Remains of thofe matters, as we !hall fee more dillinetly hereafter.
In the Year
1 )
64.
a
certain
Spaniard,
called
Diego Aleman
born in the Town
of
St.
{ohn
in
the County of
Mebla,
Inhabitant of the City of
Pa~,
otherwife cal–
led the New Plantation; being made Lord over a few
Indian1;
was
p~rfuaded
by
a
Curaca
of that place, to take twelve
Spaniards
more into
his
company, and
with them to make a journey into the Province of
Mltfu,
where he a!Iilred them
was
much Gold offering hirnfelf
to
be their guide; the journey they undertook
was
a
foot, both
for
privacy, the better to furprife the Natives, and becaufe the
way
was mountainous, and not pa!fable on horfeback; their
D~fign
was
for
that
prefent onely upon difcovery, to fee and obferve how the Land lay, to kµow the
ways, and
afterwards
return with greater force, to make their Conquefi ;
chey
entred by
Cochapampa,
which
borders upon
Moxa.
They travailed twenty eight days through Mountains and Thickets, and unfre...
quented places, and at length came to a view of the firfi Province of that people.
The
Cacique
gave them
a
caution to proceed filently, and enquire of matters from
,fome
Indian
before they difcovered themfelves; but t}:ie
Spaniards
not hearkning
to the caution he gave, on the clofe of the Evening, with more boldnefs than
prudence entred the Province, making a noife, as
if
their numbers had been great,
or as
if
the found of the
Spanijh
Tongue onely, had beenJofficient to affiight them.
But matters fucceeded quit otherwi[e, for the
Indians
aking
the allarm, and by
the !bout they made, concluding them
to
be few
in
number, rook courage, and
falling upon them., killed ten, and rook
Aleman
captive; the other two, by the
da_rkriefs of the
mght
efcaped, and returned to the place where their Guide pro–
m1fed
to
expeet: diem, bemg not pleafed with the ra(hnefs of their Counfel. One
of
the .two which efcaped was called
Francifco Moreno,
the Son of a
Spllniard,
by
an
~ndian
Woman,
born
at
Cochapampa;
this Man got
a
Cloth made of Cotton,
whKh
was
hanged.
in
the
air for .a Hamock or Cradle, to lay a Child in it, having
fix
Bells of Gold tied to the ends of it, woven with feveral Works in divers co–
lours. So fo_on
~s
it
was day the two
Spaniards
and the
Curaca
could from the
top
of
the
Hill
d1.fcove~
a great number of
Indians,
with Lances, and Pikes, and
Breall:-plates, which glittered againfl: the Sun, all which, as the Guide afiured
them, were
~ade
of Gold; and that they had no Silver in their Countrey,
but
that
~:mely
which they procured from
Peru
in exchange
for
their Gold. And
to
defcnbe the greatnefs
of
that Countrey, he told them,
that as
the
Lift
was
to
that
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