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. BooK I.
R.oyai
Commentaries; ·
within
a little League of the
C~cy,
where that
fatal
B~ttel
was
fough~
of
Don,
Die
0
of
.tflmagro
the E}def? and
He:nando
Pic;a_rr~
?
all the
o~her NattC?n~
haye five
or
rix
different
denom111auo~s, w~1th ~e
f2l!_efpicancha, Muyna? Vrtos,
~ehuar,
Huaruc, Cavinna.
This
Nation
~f
Cavinna
boafr
~emfelves
much of
h<=:U?g
de–
fcended froin Parents, who proceeded
fr~m
a certam Lake,
w~e~e
they
~epor~
that
the Souls of fuch "'!ho dye do enter ,
and
thenc.e .return agam
~o
animate.
other Bodies. Thefe People adored an Idol of a prodigious figure, and offered
a
ftrange fort of Sacrifice
to it;·
but the
Inia;
Mane~
Capac,.
defiroyed
~e
Idol,
and
abolifhed their rites, and compelled them
as
he did
all
h1s other fub1e& to
adore
the Sun.
.
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h.
'd d
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.
b.
.
b. ,,
Thefe Pe6ple, who were
riot
muc
a ove a
':1n
re
m
num
er'·
~ere
ut
fmall
in
the
beginning , the -greateft not
exceed~g
a hun9red families ,
and
the leffer confil.l:ing
of
about twenty five or
thrrcy ,
whKll
jfterwards
by
the privileges and encouragements,
~~ich ~he
_inca,
M11n~o
f!tipac,
beftowed
!J~On
them
(as
we fhall hereafter declare) they mcreafed exceedmgly, many
of
them
extending
themfelves into a thoufand Families, and the leffer to three or four
hun~
dred
at leafi; the which immunities and favours being confirmed,. and augmented
by
Manco
Capac
and his
Suc~eifours
,
t~e
pe<?ple inaeafed and.
flo~ifhed, t~ll
all
was
deftroyed by the barbarous Tyranny of
Atauhqalpa.
Now
m
tliefe our times,
and about twenty years paft thofe _Colonies which
Manco
Capac
planted on this
fide
and almo!l: all the People of
Peru
do not now
poffe!S
their ancient dwellings;
bee~ufe
a Vice-Roy, as
we
fhall iliew
in
its proper place, joiried them afterwards,
uniting five or fix into one, and fometirnes feven or eight, as was moft agreeable
to his purpofe, from whence.many inconveniences accrued
to
that Pedple, whicli
we
omit> becaufe they are grievous and
ungratefull to
repeat.
C
H
A
P~
·
XII.
In what
1ndnher
the
Inea
taught and
infirueied
hii
S~bjefJs1
T
-~
HE
Inca, Manco.Cnpac;
as
he planted
hiS
Coionie5,
fd
every where he taught
-them to plow, and cultivate the Land, how to make Aquedu& and Con–
fervatories for tlieir Water, and all other matters tending to the more commodi–
ous
_well-being
of
humane
Life~
he
gav.e them alfo,fome rules ofCivility,
nec€!fa-
ry in
fociety
for
rhaintenance of Friendfhip and Brotherhood,
as
the
Laws'
of
N~mre
and Reafon dittared;
that
laying afide
all
animofities and paffions one
aga.u.1fi:.the
oth~r,
they fhoulddoe
as
th~y
would be done by, maintaining Without
_
partiality the fame
Law
for
others which
~Hey
allow
fot
themfelves: but above
a~
he
rec<?mm~nded
ta them a refpetl: which they ought to bear towards the Bo–
~1es
of their
W
1ves and Daughters, for in that vice they were the moft blameable·
and
bar
1
b~ous;
and. in o!dsr
liere~nto
he made Adultery, Mu:rcher and Robberfi
morta crimes; and pumfhable with death. · He ordered
that no
man
fhotrld
ha~e
more
than
one
\_'Vife.
at
a
time, and that in their
Marriages
they fhould con–
fin~
themfelves to their Tnbes, that they might not make-a confufion in the Line–
~e,
a?d that
frdm
twenty years
a~d
up\:\ ards they might marry, becaufe before
t
at tun_e
the1~
prudence was not npe enough to manage their Affairs , nor go–
yern their Fami?es.
H~
employed others to gather the .more gentle fort ofCattle
.
ilito.flocks, which _ran
difQerfe~
and wild through the Woods and fields, caufmg
em to make
garm~nts
of their Wool, according
to
the Art which the Queen
Mam'!'
OcUo Hr,aco
had taught them
for
[pinni
ng and weaving; he fhewed thei.n,
~fo
how to make that fort of Shoes
w~ich
th.eynow wear, and which they .
call
.
'feta.
Over every one
of
thefe Colorues
h
e ordained a Chief,
which
they called
turt:!tJ