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Royal
Commentarie~.
BooK
lX.
Tne!e Nations received the Sentence and Execution of Jufiic€
with
great
Hu–
milicy
and Refignation; efl:eeming thetnfelves very happy that the Infliction
of
their puniiliment
was
no greater, fearing
th~t
it might nave extended to
a
genel'al
Maffacre of them all who were concerned
in
this Tteachery;
for
fince the time
that the Empire of the
InctU
began to be dilated, nothing was punifhed with
fo
much feverity
as
Rebellion
?
which
~ri~e
beipg
complic~ted
with
the
vile
fin
of
Ingratitude, made the punifhment mflieted feem eafie, and not bear
an equality
with
what
the
oiferrce deferved,
fo
that when the whole Nation of
Huanca-vilka
was
punifhed
for
all the reft,
they fupporred the Sentence with Patience
and
Moderation; and their
CuractU
and Captains, willingly confented to have their
Teeth drawn; and to <hew their readinefs herein, they made it the Badge
and
Difl:inetion of their Nation, drawing out the upper and nether Teeth of their
Children, fo foon
as
having fhed them, they were grown again; whereby
it
is
obfervable, that rude and barbarous People are as well pleafed with Mode–
ration
in
the
Execution
of Punifhment, as others are
in
the
Exceffes
of
Be-
nefits.
.
I was once acquainted with an
Indian
W
ornan of
HuancaviJlca
in
Couo,
who
re..
counted unto me at large all this Story ; the Men and Women,
(as
fhe
faid) of
that
Countrey, did ufually boar their Nofirils,
for
carrying
Jewels
of Gold
and
Silver in them; and
I
remember when
I
was.a Cbild that a Nejgbbour of
ours,
called
Coca,
had
a
Horfe of a Chefnut coloUt, which
being
broK-en-winded,
for
his
more eafie breathing they flit
his
Noftrils, with which Novelty the
Indians
be–
ing
much pleafed, they called the Horfe
Huanc1tvi/Lca,
in
fitnilirude
of
one of
that
Nation.
•
•
'C
II
.A
P.
IV.
.
Th'e
Inca
1Jijits
his Ernpire,
confu!ts
the
Oracle~,
and
gains
the IflanJ of
Puna.
T
HE.
Inca Huayna Capac
havin reduced thofe Provinces; punifhed the
Of.
fendets, and placed fufiicient Guards and Garrifons for fubjeCl:ing the
peo–
~le,
and keeping them in obedience, he returned
to
the Kingdom of
~itu,
and
jhence taking a compafs
to
the Southward\ he proceeded to the
Charcas
by
way
of
Co~co,
being a Journey of above feven nuadred Leagues
·m
length. He alfo
fent vifitors to the Kingdom of
Chili,
from
whence they brought much Gold
to
himfelf, as they had done to
tus Father ; in "'hich Travels he fpent four
Year ,
· and then refided two Years in
Coz.co.After which he raifed fifty thoufand Soul–
diers ut of the Divifion of
Chinchaf
ttJu,
whi<:h is to the North of
Cou»,
com
man~
ding
t
em
to
make tbeir Rendezvous on the Frontiers of
Tumpi~
whilfr
he
jn
Perfon defcended into the Plains, to vifit the Temples of the Sun, of
which
there
were many of great Devotion in thofe parts.
In the firfi place he went to the
rich Temple of
Pachacamac,
whom they adored for the unknown God; and there
commanding the Priefis to confult the Oracle, who was the Devil, concerning the
happinefs of his Succeffi s, anfwer ,, as made, that he fhould proceed
in
his Enter·
prifes, for he fhould be profperous in them, ·and .in all others that he fhould
un·
aertake; for that he was chofen for fupreme Lord of all the four Qp.arters. of
the
1
.
World. Hence he paffed to the Valley of
Rimac,
"'here that famous pratmg
I~
was feated, the 'vhich he
confult~d
in compliance with the
Capitulations\~
hd1dl
his Great-grandfather had made with the
Y~ncM,
ofwhich one vvas, that
t~at
I
his~
fhonld be always conferved
by
him in great veneration, and ha\ ing received
Anfover, which was full of Ambiguities and Flatteries,
he
pro eeded forwardd
h.
the
Vallies
\.Vhich border upon
T11mpiz_;
'
here being
arrh
ed, he difpatch:_./}
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