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VII.
-Royal
Commentaries.
XXVI.
Of the quiet Life
of
the
Inca Yupanqui,
and @f the At-lions
wherein he
employed
himfelf unti!J
the tinie
of
his
Death.
~-HE
K:\ng
bttPJfJ";
having eftabllfued
an~
confirmed rliie
Conquefis
which
....... his Capra.ins
had made; under the
fe<;unry of
good
Laws;,
and fettled Re–
}
!g1.on~
all
parts.,
having
alfe
made
provifion for
his
own
Royal
~ev€nu@,
and
f
e~ted
a maintaioance for the
~iefthood
of the
Sun,
he
dec€r~med
to put a,n
end co
his farther Conquells,
whKh
are now
far
extended, reaching
no le{$ than
a thoufand
League;;
in length;
fo
that he
refolved
to
f
pend the
remainder
of his
Days
m
ereding
Monuments
and
Trophies
of
his
greatnefs,
which
mi&ht ever
conferve his Memory
in
great Renown. To
which
end he built new Forttelf es;
and
many Temples
dedicated
to
che
Sun, with Houf
es for
th€ Sele&Virgins, Roy–
al
Palaces,
and
made many
Aqueducts,
Walks
and Gardens.
H~
alfo
endowed
the
Temple of the
Sun
in
Co~o
with
greater Riches, of
which
rhough
it
fi1)0d
in
no
need,
yet
he
thought
it
a duty
to contribute
fome thing
mwards rhe
_glory
ofhim
whom
he honoured, and
efteemed
for
bis
Father; and more
~fpe£ially
he
bufied
himfelf
in
building
and
completing
the
Fortrefs
ac
Coz:.~o,
for
which
bjs Fa–
ther had made
provifion
0f
all materials, and
gathered
great quantities of Stones
and
Rocks, of which we iliall hereafter have occafion to difcourfe
more
at l<J_rge.
He
alfo perfonally
vificed all the
parts
of his Empire,
that
fo
he might with
his
own Eyes fee
the
State of
things,
hear the Complaints and Aggrievances
gf his
people, (\Od provide a Remedy
and
Relief for his
Subje& ;
to all which
he
atten–
oed
with
fo
much care arrd compaffion, that he
worthily deferved
to
be
furnamed
The Pio;u.
In
thefe
Employments
this
Prince
with great
Peace and
Tranquillity
fpent
his
time for feveral
Years,
being
greatly
beloved and obeyed
by
his
Subje&
1
at the
end
of
which
falling
lick,
and
fuiding within
himfelf his
end co be near, he
called the Prince, who was his Heir,
and
his
other Sons together, recommending
~o
them
by
way of Tefiament the
firitt
obfervance
of their Laws, and religious
Rites of their Idolatrous W oriliip ; and
above
all encharged them to perform
and
~dminifrer
J
ufl:ice to their Subje& in the mofr equal balance,
and
therewith
he gave them
his
Bleffing of Peace-, for that
now
his
time was come
to
depart this
Life,
and refi with his
Father
the Sun,
v\fho
called
and
fummoned him to his
Manfions of
Felicity.
Thus
dyed
Tt~panqui
foll of
Glory
and Triumph, having enlarged his Empire
above five hundred Leagues
in
length
to the Southward, being as far as from
At11-
cama
to the River
Mau/Li;
and to the
Northward
one hundred
and
forty Leagues,
along
the
Coafr from
Chincha
to
Chimu.
He
was lamented with great grief, and
having
ranked
him_ in the tenth
<?rder
of their
Gods,
~ho wer~
Children
of
the
Sun,
becaufe
he was the tenth King, they celebrate htS Obfeqmes
with
great
fo–
lemnity,
which,
according
to
their
Cuflome,
con
ed for
die
fpace
of a
whole
Year,
offering unto him
many
Sacrifices. He left
Tupac Inca Yupanqui
his Heir
ar:id
eldefi.Soi:i,
whi~h
he
b~?t
of his
Wife
and
Siller,
called.c~a
Chimpu Occlo,
to
fucceed him m all his Dom1mons. The
proper
Name of this Queen was
Chimpu,
but the word
Oc~lo
was a facred Title amongfi
them,
he
left many
legitimate Sons
and Da\:lghters
of
the true
Bloud ; befides
many
other natura1 Children,
to
the
number
of
ab~ut
two hundred and
fifty ,
which
was
no great matter amongfr
them? confiden!lg the
l!l~ny
Women , which thofe Kings maintained in every
Provmce
of
therr
Dom1ruons.
And
becaufe
this
Inca
laid the Foundation of this
~reat
Work,
it
is
requifit~
tpat we
iliould
treat ofit
immediately after the Life of
-1ts
firfi
Foun9er, becaufe
1t IS
the mofi excellent Trophy ofthe
Jncan
Magnificence,
and
that
whIC~
may
ferve for a matter of
Oll:entation and
Glory , not onely
t9
the Authour
h1mfelf,
and the preceding Kings. but fufficient to derive Honour
to
all
their
Pofrerity
in future
Ages.
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CHAP
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