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IX.
C H A P.
I.
Huayna Capac
caufed a
Chain
of Gold to he
11iade
as big
~
a Cable; and his
Reafon_s for
it.
HE
puHfant and
powerfull
H11ayn;tt Capac
being abfolute Lord of
his Empire, employed the
firft
year of
his
Reign in performing
the Funeral Solemnities
of his
deceafed Father ; and then
af- '
terwards, to the
~eat
joy and fatisfaetion of his people, made
,
his
progrefs in viliting divers parts of
his
Empire ; and every-
where as he paffed, the
CuractU
came forth to meet and receive
him,
and the people firowed their ways with Flowers,
and
made Triumphal
Ar–
ches
with
Canes and Rullies, covered with Rof
es
and Flowers, and odoriferous
Herbs ;
all
places refounded with loud Acclamations of the people, repeating the
Augull: Tides of the
Inca,
efpecially the Name of
Huayna
Capac,
Huayna
Capac,
whkh they often echoed,
as
that which contained moll: ofGrandeur and Renown
5
the which he having c:Ieferved from
his
infancy, did now, as they believed, merit
a greater advance of Adoration, being placed
in
degree of a God.
Acofta
writing
in the 24th Chapter of his fixth Book in commendation of this Prince, hath thefe
words:
'' This
Huayna
Capac
was
adored by
his
people
in
his
life-time for
a
'' God, and with that divine Wor!hip which was never before ufed cowards
his
'' Ancefiours, as ancient Men
frill
living do remember, and relate of their own
cc
knowledge. As this
Huayna
Capac
had newly begun
to
make
his
Journey
into divers parts of his Empire, news was brought him , that he had a Son and
Heir born, who
~as
afterwards called
Huafcar
Inca :
This Child being greatly
defired, filled all the Court with joy; and
was
fo pleafing to his Father, that
he returned to
Co~co,
to
be prefent at the En.tertainments which were made for
celebrating the Fefiivals of
his
Son>s Nativity, and
was
there received with
all
the evidences of
joy ,
and cordial welcome ,
as
cpuld be poffibly expreffed.
This Solemnity being pafi, which lafied for twenty
days~
the
Inc~,
out of the
a~undance
of joy, which he conceived
for
the Birth of an
Heir,
began
to
enter–
tain
thoughts of doing and contriving fomething extraordinary, and never
be–
fore
invented
againfi
the time that his Son was to be weaned ,
at
which
time
they cut offhis firfi lock of Hair, and gave him his Name, which, as we have
faid
in
the former
part
of
this
Hillory, was the moft folemn Fefiival that they
kept, being obferved by
all
forts of people, from
the
King to
the
Beggar; every
ne
having a
fhare, and
be·
ng
concerned in
the Birth
a
elfare
of
the
Prince,
who