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EooK
VIII.
Commentaries.
- them
to
now they
could
not incline their
minds
to
any fervile
f
ubie6t~on.
Here–
with'a cruel Wat began , for all the
fair
offers
4nd
pr~ences
of
_the.
f;rca
could
a
vail nothing·
fot
their ancient liberty and
fre~dom
fiill
prefenttng
1t
felf before
them
flop~
their
EArs to
all
the gentle
words of favour
che
lntdi
expre1fed,
fay–
ing, That the greateft favour and grace he
~ould d~
them; .was
to leave
thetn
to
their
own
liberty. All thefe three Provmces bemg affoaated
togeth€r~
una–
nimoufly contributed to the affiftence of
e~ch
other, nnd
~de
fiout. oppolicion>
having killed about
8000
lntas;
with
which
flaughtet
die
~#ells
bemg
enraJted>
petfetuted
the Enetny
with
fire
and
fword,.
and
'al~
_the
.m~hes
of
\Yat,
wliic~
they
fuppqrred with great
patiehce
and
equali~
of
mmd 1n
co~cemplaaon
of
rheit
liberty
which
they
difputed and defended
wnh gteat
refolutton ;
for
no
~oon~
were
they forced
ff
om
on~
llrong
Hold,
but
they
pofie,d to anotherl)
and
~ent~
to
tmother
abandoning
their
Counttey, and l1Iou(e5>
Without
tare
of their
W
1ves
and
children_,
refolving
to
dye
with
Arms
in
theit
hands,
rather than
become
the
"
Slaves and Vaffals
of
another~
.
..
1he
Incas
fiill
proceeded
in
the
Conqueft of
thi~
Counttey,
untill
they
had
for-·
ced
then~
into a
cornet
of
it ;
where
ha
v-ing
fortified
rh~lves,
they
endured
all
extre1nltles ; and
though
reduced
to
the
ultimate
point of
~riOilng
bv
famine;
yet
fiill
continued confulnt,· and
refolved
not
to
b€
fubjett to
the
lfJca :
the
which
fotne of their more
fober
and intelligent Captains
oonfidering
:J
and
finding that
upon
there prittciples
all
of
them mull: necelftttily
dye
and
perifh,
without
know–
ing arty
caufe
or
teafon for
it:
And feeing that
other
Nations; ·
as free as
r:hey,
had
fubrnitted to
the Dominion of the
lnt1e,
under
whom
their
pea~e
and plency was
augmented, rctthet than
in
the leafl: abated or infringed. The Captains and ChiefS
having
this
communicatton together, agreed
to yield
thetnfelves
and
people to
the
l
ca
•
rhe
which
was performed, though not without forne
mutiny
and fedition a–
mong
Cl:
the
Souldiery; howfoever the generality
being led by
the
example
and
dittares
of
their
Corno;tmders,
did
all at lall
fubmit,
and yield Unto due obedi-
ence.
·
~
The
Inca
T11pdt
recehred
thetn with all
expr
0ns
of grace and favbur,
tel.Ih:Jg
rhern, how much he pitied their folly, whidi ha
fo
unnecetfatily betraye
d them
to the
lafl:
e~tremities
of want and famine; .. but now
to relieve
them
in
this
taru·
dition, he ordered, that they fhollld
be
entertained and treated
like
his
own
Chll·
dren: And
that
whereas
many
of
them perilhed
in
the late
War, fo
that
their
Lands '1nd Dwellings were void and depopulated ; he ordered, that they iliould
be
again
frocked
and
fupplied
by
people tranfplanted
from
other
Provinces. And
thus
the
Inca
having provided
matters
for
due
adtninifiration
of
that
Government,
and
fettled
and eftablifhed
their
Do&rine andReligion, he returned again to
CfR>to;
being
more troubled and
uneafte for
the lofS
~nd
defirucHon of thofe poor
Indlan.r,
than
tired or wearied with the
fatigues~
and incomtnodioufneB of
die
War ; of
which
he was
fo
fenflble;,
that
he
would often fay, that
if
he
were
a1fured that
the
other Nations,
more
remote,
had taken example
by
the obfiinacy
of
thefe;
that
he would defet the Conquefr ofchem for the prefent, and untill fuch a con1un6ture
6f
time,
as
might
tender
them
more pliable, and better difpofed
to
receive the GCJl.
vernrnent of the
Incas•
. Wherefore the
GreatTupac
refraining
ftotn
War,
fpent feveral
years
it1
viftting
hi
1Gngdo111s,
adorning
them
with
ll:arely Edifices
in
every
Province,
and
inhabi–
ced Countrey, fuch as
Roy~I
Palaces, Fortreffes, and Houfes for publiek
Stor~
Aqueducrs
and
Temples
dedicated
to
the
Suh,
With Convents for the Sele6t Vit-
-·glns ,
befides
many ocher publick
Works, filch as making
High-ways ahd
open
~oads,.
ofwhich
we
fha~l
treat
more
at
large
in
the
Secona
Part; but
more
efpe–
c1~1ly
hIS
care was,
to
fimfh
the FortrelS
of
Cozeo,
the
Foundation of
which
was
laid,
a~d
begun
by
his
Father
the
Inca Tupanqul.
Havmg
tnus
f~ent
fame
years
in
the exercifes
and
employments of J;>eace, the
f1
1
ca
re-a~umed
his thoughts of
conquering
the
Provinces, which
lye
Northward
1
called
C.hmchefuyu :
1:he firfi Quarter
he
came to, was
Huanucu,
which contains
ma–
ny
Nat101!5
>
but all independent
each
o~ ot~er,
living
fcattered
up
~d
down the
i:1elds,
without government
or
commumcauon, but
in
perpetual War and Figh–
t1n&s :
they
h~d
fome Forcre!fes and firong Holds on
the tops
of
Mountains,
to
which at
.any
tune,
when.
they
were worfiea, they
fled
for refuge
5
all which peo–
ple, by
fa~.
terms>
according
.to the accufioll}a!Y
clemency
of
die
Inca.r,
were with
much
fa<::1hty
reduced to their command ; though at
firft
the Natives of
HtJanucu
R
r
2
fuewed