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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
VIII.
C H A P.
.VIII.
Of the three Marriages
of
Huayna Capac;
of the
Death
of his Father, and his Sayings.
•
T
Vpac lncaTnp1enq11i
defifiing now wholly from Wars, attended to the Govern–
ment of his Empire, vifiting divers parts of
it
at different
tim~,
to the great
joy and comfort of his
V
affals, who were tranfported with joy, as often
as
they faw
che
I
nett
in their Countries :
It
was he who effeClually laboured about the
For–
trefs of
Couo,
his
Father having onely begun, and laid the foundation of
it
;
this
Work was many years
in.
building, on which twenty thoufand
Indians
were al–
ways employed, every Nation and Province taking
its
turn , with that rule and
order, that nothing could be difpofed in better and more exalt method and difci–
pline. Every two years the
Inca
vifited
his
Kingdom of
Chili,
fending every
year
thither many fine Garments for cloathing of rhe
CuracM,
and their Kindred, wich
more common habit
for
the ordinary people.
In
exchange for which, the
Caciqrut
fem much Gold, and plumes of Feathers, and other Commodicies of the growch
of their Countrey.
.And this continued untill the time that
pan
Diego
de
Almagro
invaded that Countrey.
\
The
P
ince
H111iyna
Capac
having conquered the Kingdom of
~itu,
and the
Provinces of
~//accnca,
Paftu, Otavallu
and
Caranque,
and given infrrucHons
for
the orderly management of
the
affairs of chafe Countries, he returned
to
Co~co
to
render an account to his Father ofall the Aetions he had performed
in
his Service,
· being received by him with great triumph and joy for his happy return
:
And
then he married· a fecond time with his fecond Siller, caUed
Rava
Occlo,
becaufe
by
his
firft
Wife, and eldeft Sifter, called
Pillcu
Huaco,
he had no Children;
it
be–
ing necelfary that
the
Succeffion {hould be fupplied by an Heir legitimate on the
fide
both of the Father and Mother..
In
like manner he married a third
time
lawfully, according to their
La"s
and Cufl:oms, with
Mama
Runtu,
the Daughter
of
his
Uncle
A uqni
AmarH
Tupac
Inca
his Father's fecond Brother.
Awpti
is a title
of difrinction, given always to the fecond Sons of the King,
and
in a courcelie
to
all thofe of the Royal Bloud, but not
to
ethers, of what quality foever.
Amaru
is a Name given
to
the greateH: Serpents of the
A ntu.
The like Names of living •
/ Creatures, of Flowers or Herbs, or any thing fopereminent, or excellent
in
ics
degree or quality, the
IncM
would take upon the:nfelves, Mgnifying, that
as
thofe
Creature were famous in their Species,
fo
the
lnca.1
were in the generation
of
Mankind. The King
Inca Tupac,
with the confent and advice of his Council,
or–
dered that thofe
two
Women, lafi married to
Hut?..yna Capac,
fl10uld be efieemed
and judged
as
lawfull Vlives as the firfr, and not
for
Concubines,
their
Children
being made capable
to
inherit, left a legitimate Heir fhould
fail
in the Succeffion.
On which confideration the
Ma
iage with his Coufin Germain was efl:eemed
Jaw..
full,
becaufe (he was the next of kin,
Huayna
Capac
"anting
a
third Sifter, with
\
1
hom he might match. By his
ifl:er
Rava
Occlo,
he had a Son-firnamed
H11ayna
Cap11c,
a
Huafcar Inca ;
the fignification of'"hich
1
"'me of
Huafiar,
we
will
declare
in
it proper place, ecaufe his true
and
proper
ame
wa
Inti Curi Huallpa.
Of his
Coufin Germain, who wa his third Wife, he had
.IV!anco Inca,
who focceeded
him
in his Kingdom, that
is,
in Name onely, for the Inheritance vras then in
realicy
fallen into rhe hands of trangers,
"' e !hall fee in its due place.
Some years of peace and tranquillity being paifed, during the Reign of
Tnpac
Tn–
panqui,
he began at length to feel himfelf crazy, and declining towards his end ;
wherefore he aifembled the Prin e
Hua;na
Capac,
and all his other Sons and Daugh–
ters together, to the number of mo hundred, and more: To whom after the cu–
fiome of former King, and by' "' ay of his
laH:
'Nill
and Teframent, he recom-–
mended the praCl:ice ofPeace and
J
ufl:ice for the good and benefit of their Subjeds,
\ ·hich'
r.,-.
'1
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111,,n.,.irn
c:
!ln~
~ke
them
co appear
true Children of
rhe