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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VII
{hewed thernfelves
furly,
obfiinate and rude ; with' hich the Officers of
the
Incas
being highly provoked, put many of them to the Sword with great fevericy
and
cruelty ; but the
Inca,
to appeafe and moderate their fury, put them
in
mind
of
rhe Original Law of the
firfi
Inca,
Manco Capac,
ho commanded them to
reduce
the
Indians
to hi fubjeetion by gentle and
fair
terms, rather than by
Arms,
or ef..
fufion of Bloud.
The
Jndian.1
being on one fide terrified with the
fear
of punia1ment, and
alllf–
red on the other by the
promif es,
and
kind
offers?f
t~e
Inca_,
~ere
reduced with–
out much labour; fo hat they were perfuaded to hve m Soc1eues, and receive the
Idolatry
and
Government of the
l ncas:i
who,
in
a
fhorr time fo improved
chis
plea.
fant Province
of
Ht¥anucu,
that by the fruitfulneiS of the
Soil,
and good temperature
of
the Climate,
it
became theHead
and
Chiefof
all
the Neighbouring Countries
And
here, ab
a
principal mark of favour, they erelted a Temple dedicated to
th~
un, with a Houfe for the Selett Virgins:
In
the building of which, twenty
thou–
fand
Indians
were c ntinually employed, and as fome
will
have it
thirty
tboufand .
all wliich took
th~r
turns
in
the labour, which fhews the great
numbers
of
thof~
Inhabitants.
Pedro
de.
Cie f
a
in
his
8
o
th Chapter
f
peaking of
the
Huanucu,
hath
thefe
words, ' hich
I have extraeted
Verbatim-
"
In
the
Pr:ecincts
of
Guanncu,
there
was
'' reeted a
Royal
Edifice, rarely built of great Stones, and well polilhed.
This
"
alace, or Royal Chamber,
was
the chief place where the Courts
of]
udicarure
" were- held for the Neighbouring Provinces,
and for
the
A ndes,
adjoyning where–
'' uoco \ as the
T
mp
le of the Sun,
w
ich many Virgins and Officers belonging
'' to
it;
and was
fo
confiderable in the time of the
Incas,
that above
30000
Jndi–
,,
an.r
were always employed in the fervice of
it.
It
belonged to the
te\ ards
of
" tfile
L?ca.1
tO"'
colleCl:
in
the ordinary Tributes ; and the Councrey people
were
" obliged to afford their attendance and fervice at this Palace. Thus far are the
words of
Ciera
de
Leon.
The Conqueft being made of
Huanucu,
a~
we have in fhort related ; we
Chall
now briefly touch on other matters, unlefs fome remarkable paffage occur, for I
refolve to hafien to the end of rhofe Conquefis which were made by the
Jnct¥s,
that fo I may treat
of
the Wars between
Huafcar
and
AtnhHalpa,
who were Ne–
phews of
this
Tupac Y11.panqui.
To proceed therefore, we
fi
y, that the
I nca
T
11
pac
commanded an
Army
of forty thoufand Men to
be
raifed~
and fitted for the year
following, intending to conquer the great Province called
Canna~·i,
\Vbich
\:
a the
Chief 0ver divers others,
~ing
very populou , and the Inhabitants valiant and
' atlike; for their dillinltion from others, they wore their Hair long, tying up
their Locks op the top of their heads wich a knot. The Nobles, and thofe who
would be fine
in
their Drefs, wore a Cap on their heads of a thin woven thread,
like
a fine
ieve, fcarce above three fingers high, through which fome threads
were drawn of divers colours : but the common fort, and fuch as were lazy,
and
ungencile, wore1 in the place hereof, the !hell of a Goard, or Pumpkin, for their
Ca ;
fo
that oftentimes in difgrace, the
Indians
would call this Nation of
Cannari,
by the
ame of
Matit~ma,
o..r Pumpkin-pate. By this, and fuch-like devices on
th ir heads, during all the Reign of the
lnc1t,1,
the
Indians
were dillinguHhed, and
knm n of hat Countrey and Province they were ;
in
my time alfo they carried
thefe difl:inilions ; but now, as
1
am informed, they are negleeted, and every one
' ears what he pleafes. Thefe Natives of
Cannari,
before the times of the
Inca,
\J
ent almoft naked, both Men and Women, wearing onely a loofe Cloth to co–
vet their privities : They had many Lords which ruled over them, fome ofwhkh
made an Alliance one
with
the other; but thefe were fuch as were of the meaneft
rank,
ho,
to
refifr
the power of the great ones, and their tyrannous oppreffion,
joined together
in
confederacy and alliance.
CH AP.