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the other :
they
had no employment or occupation to bufie themfelves
in
for
mo!t of them went naked, without
cl
oaths or covering ; the prize and rewa:d of
their War, were the bodies of the Wives and Daughters of the conquered of
which
they enjoyed as
many as
they could get;
and for
the Men, they eat
and'
de..
voured one the other.
Their Religion was
as
befiial
as
their Morality ; they adored many Gods
eve..
ry
Lineage, or Family, had one or more proper to
it ;
fome adored
Animc:Is
or
living
Crea~res,
others Birds,
Her~s, P~nts, ~ivei:s,
Fountains,
nay
any
thing
which they liked, or were pleafed
wtth;
m
which diverfity
of
Gods, there
often
arofe Difputes and
Arguments
concerning
their
Power and
Goodnefs, which was
moll: commonly decided by War. People living at this rate, without reafon
or
politi9ues,
~ere
eafily fubdued ;
fo~
they could
n~ver
ftand to. make
any
defence,
but, like wild beafts, vvere hunted
m
che Mouotams , where
m
the
Thickets
.in
Caves
and Rocks they concealed chemfelves; but famine,
and
want
of full:ena:ice
forced many of them from their retirements, into the power and obedience of
rb~
Inca,
chou_gh many of them , who were obfiinace and furly, like brure
beafis,
pe-
.
rllhed
in
their
places of
concealment.
But the
Inca
T14pa~
ufed
all diligence
to
catch,
and tame them,
committing them
into
the
hands ofMafiers
and
lnfiruttors, who might teach
them
to
afiociare,
and
live in communities, how to cultivate the Grounds,
and
wear
Cloa~hiog
,
and
make Garments ofWool and C.Otton :
they
alfo !hewed them how to bring
cha–
nels
of water
for
refrefhing their Fields,
and
fu
learned
them
to
manure their
Lands
that
it
became the
moll:
fruitfall
foil
of
all
Peru.
In
fome time
afrerwards,
fo;
greater improvement of
that
Caunrrey, they ennobled
it with
a
Temple of
rbe
Sun, and
a
Houfe ofSeleCt: Virgins, with many other Edifice
of
Honour and
Re–
nown. They commanded, that all
their
Gods iliould be thrown to the
Earth
and that they fhould acknowledge
and
worfhip no other but onely che Sun,
wh~
was
the fole God of the Univerfe
=
that none
fhould
eat Man's fiefh on pain of
Death, and utter defiruCtion .of himfelf and family ; and for ocher matters they
gave chem Priefis and Men of learning
co
infiruet chem
in
their Laws
and
Cu–
fioms :
In all
which they became
fo
docible, and fuch proficients, that
in
a fhort
time they lived orderly and fociably
in
civil communication, and the two Provin–
ces of
Cafcayunca
,
and
Huancapampa
became the moil: knowing, and mofi orderly
Citizens
in
all
the Empire of the
Inca&.
·
C H A P.
. IV.
The Conquefi of three
Great
and Warlik._e
Provinces.
H
Vancttpampa
being conquered, the
lnca1
proceeded to reduce three orher great
Provinces, containing many other Nation under their
po~
er; but how long
this fucceeded after the Conquefi of
H11tfncapampa,
i
not cert
in
:
Bue
thefe people
were of a different quality to thofe before mentioned;
f<
r they lived in a
politiCal
manner, had their Towns, and oretfications, and {(me manner ofGovernment a–
mongfi them ; they ofren a!Iembled, and held
ounfel to onhder
of
the pubJick
good and welfare. No perf< n pretended to a Right of
minion
m~er
them, but
by
common- confent they eletted their ChiefGovernour in the rime ofPeace, and
Captain
in
cafe ofWar, ferving them with entire obedience, during the time of
th
ir
Magillracy. Thefe three Provinces were called
Caf{a,
A ahnaca,
and
Cttllmt,
The
Inca,
fo
foon as he approached the Confines of thefe Coumrie , fent
his
Sam..
moos
to
the Inhabitants, requiring them
to
receive him for their Lord and S
e–
reign , or orherwife- provide to defend rhernfelves by force of Arms; for anfwer
\\·hereunto, they returned a !hort reply, That they were ready to dye
in
defence of
their Liberties ; for as
they
never
had received any Lord that was impofed on
them,