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v;111.
Royal
C H A P.
'VI.
.
Of
the
C<tnqueft of
niany
other
and
great Provin:ces,
as
far as
the Confines of
Quicu.
THE
Inc~
having
fettled
and
efiablifued affa.its
in
CaHA.ru,he
returned
to
·
1 ·
Couo,
where lie fpent feveral
years
in
the
~dmfnlftration
of
g~
Govern–
ment and other
jurt:
aetions
appertaining to
the
Office
of a Great King.
But
as
it
is
n~cural
to Pulffant Princes to
be
ambitious, and defirous to enlarge their
Em–
pire
fo
likewife this
Inca
thought
it
not fit to lofe longer time
in
a
repofed
life,
but
~o
J?roceed
in
his
Conquefts.
5
to which end· he raifed
a
confiderable Army;
with
wbich
he
marched to
the
Confines of
T11mipampa
;
from
whence
beginning
his
Conquefu;, he reduced many Provinces as
far
as the Borders of the Kingdom
of
~itu,
which extend little lefs
than
50
Leagues in length; the chief places of
which
are
Chanchan,
Moca,
~efoa,
Pumallacta,
which figmfies the Countrey of'
•
Lions,
becaufe
th~y
abound more
in
thofe parts, than in the places thereabouts,
and are adored by the Inhabitants of
T.iccampi, Ttuca{[a,
Cayampi,
Vrcollafu,
and o–
thers of le!S note, for their Gods : the which
plac~
being very
thin
of people,
were eafily
reduced ;; and moreover, the Lands are very barren, and the people
fotti.fh,without
rds, or Government, or Religion, or Political Communj.ca–
tion :every one adored that for God, which they moft defired, or rather
-theyworl_hlpi:>ed nothing, living like brute beafis, fcattered and wandering
in
the
Fie1cf$
and Woods, whom there was more trouble
to
infuuet and inform with any kind
of good manners, than to overcome, or reduce: thefe they taught to make Cloth
;
and Shoes, and
to
Manure the Land ; for watering ofwhich , they made Aque–
ducts and Chanels for them.
In
all thefe Provinces the
Incas
made large Roads,
and High-ways, and Store-houfes
to
lay up Provifions for fufienance of the Soul–
diery, and Chambers for their Kings; bat would not honour
fo
\tile and fervile a
fort of Inhabitants with the beauty ofTemples dedicated
to
the Sun, or with the
· Houfes of Selell: Virgins ; they being capable of little more, than
to
keep them·
felves clean from Lice, by obligation of that Tribute they were
to
pay
in
them.
Whilll: die
Inca, Tupac Tupanqui,
was thus employed in reducing and infuucting
the Provinces before mentioned ; other Nations which are feated to the Weft–
ward of thefe, bordering on the Confines .of that Province which the
Spaniards
call
Puerto
Piejo,
or theOld Port, fent their Ambaifadours
ro
th€
Inca
with
Prefents,
befeeching him to receive them for his Subje& and Vaifals, and that he would
be
pleafed to fend them Captains and Teachers, who might infirutt them in the way
of living in Societies, and how to manure their Lands, that
th~y
might live like
Men,
and not like Beafis, promifing for themfelves all loyalty and faithfulnefs :
Thofe that made the
fufl:
motion to fend this Embaffy, were of the Nation of
H11ancavillc'1.
The
Inca
grati.oufly received their Addrefs, commanding that fatis–
faetion
fl10u~d
be
&h~en
them
~n
all their defires ; and
fo
Teachers were fent
to
in–
fl:ruCt
them m Religion, and
10
the Laws and good Cufioms of the
lnca :
Engi–
mers were alfo fent them
to
make Aquedu&, and manur.e their Fields, and re–
duce them into Societies : But aft rwards the ingratitude of this people was fuch,
that contemning the favours and promifes which the
Inca
had made them
they
aro~e u~
againfi: his people, and barbaroufly murthered them all. As
Pedro'de Ci–
epi
m his Obfetvation reports, \,\ hich becaufe it
ferves
to
confirm the particulars
~he
have often repeated in
this
Hifl:ory, touching the gentlenefs and good-nature of
t
e
/ncru,
who were always ready to teach and infl:ruCl: the
Indians
who fubmic–
ted to their
Do~inioo;
we h ve here inferred the Words of
de' Ciera,
that
fo
\\hat we
h~ve
fa1d. concernin& ...
t~e
l ncas,
may alfo be confirmed by the authority'
of the
Spanifh
Writers:
His
VY
ords are rhefe whkh follow ..
311
,
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