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BooK

VIII.

·Royal

Commentaries.

Herewith an end was put to the

W~r

th~

Campagn ; for that the

C~n

quell: of

Province

inacceffible in

1ts

fimauon, and

well defended by

lts

Natives, was

fufficient Work for one ?ummer. . And beca?fe that. Coumrey

was fubjecl: to much

rain,

he quartered

his

Army

the. Frontiers of

1t,

and

!·e–

cruited it with twenty thoufand Men more, that he

might

make _

more qu1ck

difpatch and riddance in his Conquefis.

.But

fi~ft

too~ ord~r

_to have

h~s

new

Subjects well

inftrueted

the ft1perfiit1ous

R1t~

hIS

Religion, and

the

Laws and Moralities of his Empire: He appomted

alfo,

that defigns ibould

laid for Aqueducts and Gardens, and for clearing thofe <?rounds which were

fruicfull

and of good Soil}

of Bullies and Weeds, makmg them good and

profirabfe manure, and fie

be fown

for

w~nt

of which

indu~ry,

and good

husbandry, little or no benefit was made of their

L~nds:

All winch,, when the

Indians

faw,

they admired, and acknowledged the mfimte goodnefs oft e

I nca

to them.

A P.

/II.

Of the

Conqueft

which the

Incas

rnade on the

Borders of

Chach~puyu.

HE recruits being come, and the feafon of the year

fit

for action, the

Inca

Tupac

commanded his Army out of their W mter-quarrers

take the Field,

and march towards the Province of

Chachapuyu

;

but in the firft place he difpat–

ched a Herald before to offer them terms of War, or Peace; but they iligllted

all terms of Accommodation, and refolutely anfwered, That they were ready

with Arms in their hands to defend their Liberty,_and that the

Inca

might doe

his

pleafute, for tbat they refolved never to be his Vaffals. This Anfwer being gi–

ven, both parries prepared for War, which was carried on with that refolution

and fury, tliat many were killed and wounded on both fides : The

IncM

refolved

· never to retreat; and the

ChachtU

(for they had that Name alfo) were obfiinate–

determined rather to dye than yield. Both parties being thus refolved, the

War became very bloudy, by reafon that the

ChachM,

whofe Countrey may be

fiy

led a Kingdom, being )

Leagues in length , and

in breadth , reaching to

Muyupampa,

which is

Leagues farther; forefeeing the intentions of the

Inca,

and growing jealous of his Power, had made proviGon for two years befere a–

g.ainft

him, having fortified

all

their !l:rong holds, the ruines of which remain to

this day ; and having Barracadoed the narrow paifes, which are rocky and moun–

tainous, and

dif!icult

climb, that

many places the

Jndidn.;

have made eight

or ten feveral Stones, with fieps to defcend ; and befides thefe, there

no paf–

fage forwards by other ways. Notwithfianding all thefe difficulties, the

JncM,

with lofs of many of their Men, gained feveral of thefe !hong Holds, which

proved of great advantage to them: The

firft

of thefe was fituate on a Moun–

tain, being two Leagues and a half high, called the Hill of

PiM,

becaufe the peo–

ple, who live on the other fide, are

called, being the moft confiderable of

that Province. And thus far the

Incas

having gained with great difficulty, they

"Yere now entered eight or ten Leagues within the Countrey, the people rerrea–

tmg

before to other places of greater fuength.

H~wfoever

the

~Id

Men and Women, who were not able to climb the Moun–

t~s

m company with the Young, were taken by the

Inca,

together with young

Children, whom the Parents could not carry with them ; all which the Great

Tupac

committed to the care and kind treatment of his Officers.

Having