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IX.
Roya'!
Commentaries.
ned Anfwer co
his
Heralds, that they were with
al~
willing obedience
ready
to receive him for their Lord and EmperoQr : The like Anfwer was ipade
by
the
Inhabitants of the Vallies upon the Coaft, and other In-land Nau?ns cal–
led
Chunana,
Chintu,
and
Co!lonche,
{aqua//,
and
others,
feated
on the .neighbou-
ring parts.
CH AP.
III.
Of the punifbment in.fiitied on thofe who killed
the
Officers
of
Tupac Inca Yupanqui.
T
HE
Inca
being
entred into
Tttmpi:t
,
raifed a
firong Fortrefs,
and
put
~
con–
fiderable Garrifon
intQ
it ; he built alfo a Temple
for
the Sun,
to
which he
adjoined a Houfe
for
the Seleet Virgins; the which Work being fini!hed, he
paffed forward into the Countrey of thofe who had £lain the Captains, Infuuc–
tors, and Doetors of
Rel~ion,
which
his
Father
Tttpac YHpanqui
baa
formerly
feated in that Countrey,
for
the better Government ano Erudition of that people,
as we have formerly mentioned.
In
me ory of which treacherous Villany
Hu–
ayna Capac
fent h Me!fengers
to
them, commanding them immediately to
repair
to his Court,
to
render an Account of the "' ·ckednefs they had perpetrated ; and
though they were confcious of the Falt, and trembled with the ilioughts of
the
punHhment they had deferved, yet they durft not refufe,
or
negleet the Summons,
and therefore in due fenfe of their demerit they humbly approached the
Inca,
ca–
lling themfe ves with all fubmiffion
at
his Feet.
T
e
Inca
hereupon a!fembled all
the
Curactu,
Ambaffadours, Counfellours, and Nobles, who were prefent
that
Meeting, when
his
Father, at their requefi:, fent his Officers and Inftruetors
a–
mongfi them, the
Y•
ich they had treacheroufly murthered; and
all
of them
aR–
peariog before him, a ce1 rain Colonel of the Army fiood np, and made a·
Speech
to
them in
behalfof the
Inca;
and in the
firO:
place upbraiding them
with trea–
chery, breach of their Faith, and cruelty, he accu[ed them of Ingratitude, and wane
of U nderlbnding; for that whereas they ouiJit to have adored the
Inca
an his
Officers, for withdrawing them from their brutifh and befrial Life, to live like
Men,
with
all
the Comforts and Enjoyments of a ratianal Being; they on
the
contrary had barbatoufiy and cruelly murthered the Authours and Infiruments of
their
Felicity, to
th~
great difhonour or the Sun his Father; for which offence
they had deferved
fa
fevere a punifhment, that
if
their whole Nation of
both
Sexes, and all ages were extirpated, and their Race extinguifhed, they were not
able with
the
effufion of
all
their Bloud, to make expiation for
du
heinous crime.
But
in regard that
Hutqna
Capac
was
an
Inca
to whofe Nature Mercy and Clem€n–
cy were mofr agreeable, and whofe Title
it
was
to
be a Lover of the Po r,
he
did freely forgive
all
the common people; and as
to
rhofe Aurhoursand Contriver
of this
Murrner,
though they had all deferved Death, yet he'' as contented to
de–
cill!ate
.them,
an~
every tenth
Man
to
die, as his Lot iliould
fall
upon him, that
fo
it
n)1ght
be evident,
that
the
Inca
had
no
Spleen or Hatred
to
any in particu–
lar,
but
onely to punifh Offenders, as Truth and
J
ufiice required. And farther,
that a Mark and Teflimony
of
thi Treachery might remain in the
Memory of
future
A:ges,
the
Inca
commanded that the
CuracM,
and
principal Perfonages of
the
at1on,
Hu4ncavillca,
fhould
have
two of their Teeth d ·awn from above,
and nvo from beneath, and for ever to be fo continued to them and their
Po–
fierity, and to.
remai~
a a Mark
whereby to reproach the
falfity
of the Words
pronounced
""1th
th~ir
Mouths,
and the breach of the
Promife
of
ideliry
and
Va!falage
made to his
Either
TP1pac
Yupanqui.
Zz
There
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