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BooK
IX.
Royal
Commentaries.
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accufl:omary Summons ofPeace and.Wart? the
I~habitan
~s.ofth~
Hland
<;>f
P~~~' ,
. . not
far
difiant from the Main Land
is a frmtfull
foil
aboun
dmgw1rh
all thmgs
ne..
ceffary for humane Life$ This
Ifie
contains about
twelve..
Leagues
in
comi:>~fs,
the
Lord of which was by Name
Tumpalla,
one of
a
proud
and
haughty Sp
mt~
for having.neither by himfelf nor Anceftours ackno.':Vledged. any Superiour, they
domineered over
their
Neighbours, and thereby bemg at d1fcord amongfi them–
felves were the lefs able to make
he1d
or relillence againfi the
Inca.
Moreover
this
TnPJpalla
was vitious and .luxurious i.n his
Man~ers,
and Way .of }i.ving, for
he
kept
many Wives, and Boys ufed after the fafluon of Sodomites;
they
fa–
trificed che Bloud and Hearts of Men to their Gods;
wbich
were Tigers · and ,
Lions and the Fiili of
that·
Coaft, which, becaufe they yielded them Food
in
great
~bundance,
were by them, as well as by the common
Jndiam,
adored
fbt
. Deities. Thefe People, when they heaoo the Summons of the
Inca,
were greatly
f~~rifed
and troubled;
to
which, that they might return their Anfwer,,
Tumpalla
afiembled th'e pdncipal Perfons
of his Hland, and then with great rorrow,declared
unto chem, faying,
Here no»>
app
~11.rsat the G11te1 of our Houfes a certain Tyraflt, who
threatens to
ta~
from mall olJr Go
ods and Eftate1, and to deftroy us all, unlefs we readily
receive
him for
our Lord and Mafter; and now
irr
cafe we jhoHld admh him,
~e
muft
re–
nounce our ancient Liberty, our Command and Prinoipality, which for
many
Age1 hath de–
fcended to
U5
from our Ancefto11r1.
Nor
u thu
all,
for
this
Foreigner not tr1'fting to our
Words and Fidelity, will compell
'IU
to labour, and eretl: Tower1 and Fortrejfes, ·and having
put
Garrifon1 into them will force
m
to maintain the Charge and Expence, that
fa
we may
never he in
any
capaci!J of recovering our Liberty.
He
will moreover feiz.-e upon the heft
·
of
our Poffe./fions, and
tak§
from
UJ
'our wive1 and Children, and the moft beautifn/l
of
ou1·
Da#ghters; and.what
u
mqftgrievoU!, he will abolijh our Laws, and ancient
CH.fl-oms, and
in
the place thereof impofe
new
ones upon
11U,
makjng us worjhip ftrange Go
ds, and
thr<Jw
down our own, with which
we have been acquainted; and
in
jhort, live airer
their
manner
and
pleafare, which is the
war.ftof
fervitudes . ._ Which heing certainty our Cafe,
I
leave it
to you
to
confider, whether
we
had
not
petter die, than be enflaved, dejiring you
to
confu/t
au:._d
advifa me what courfa
u
be.ftto be tak!n in
thu
exigence.
'
·
The
Indians
hereupon debating the matter amongfi: themfelves,
did
greatly
be...
wail their own weaknefs and inabil,ity
to
refifi:
fo
powerfull a Tyrant; and that
the correfpondence between them and their Neighbours being very
ill,
there was
.no hopes of making
a firm
and faithfull Confederacy with them; in confideration
of
whlch having no profpeet of defending themfelves , and that their refifl:ence
would produce nothing but Ruine and Defrrutl:ion, they concluded
at
laft, that
the
lefs
evil was to be chofen, which was to fubmit
to
the
Inca;
and to make
a
Vertue ofNeceffity, to dHfemble
a
ready Obedience untill opportunity prefented>
which might acquit them of their fer\)'itude. On this Refolution
'ntmpalla
did not
onely render a very favourable and gentle Anfwer
to
the Me!fengers fent by the
Inca,
but alfo difpeeded .Ambaffadqurs .in his own Name, and
in
behalf,of
all his
Dominions, to liim with prefents , humbly offering himfelf, and
all
his Peo–
ple,
to .his Obedience ; befeeching him to grace that
Hland,
and his new Vaffals
with the favour of his Royal Prefence, which would be
the ·
greateft felicity that
they could expeCl: or imagine.
The
Inca
gratioufly receiving this
Addtefs of
T11mp~lla,
ordered
conv~niences
to
be provided for paifmg his
Army
into ,the ffiand, that he might take poffeffion of
the Countrey; all which being prepared with great punttuality, and in fuch
man~
ner as
the iliorµiefs
of
the time would permit, though not with
fuch
Pomp and
Ofi~ntation_
as
Tumpalla
did defue, the
Inca
paffed into
the
H1and, where
he
was
rec<:1ved
with
Feafting, and Dancing, and new Songs, purpofely compofed
in
Pra1~e
and.1-Jonour of
Huayna
Capac,
~nd
his
mighty Aetions. His Lodgings were
provided
m a
new Palace, lately built;
fotr
the
Inca
was
not
to fleep
in
fuch
a
Chamber where any other Perfon had repofed. The
Jnca
remaining here
fot
fome
days,_
emRloyed
~i~felf
in
g~ving ?~t
neceifary .Orders for the Government,
by La,ws, and the
~nlhtut1on
of
fas
13.ehg1on, commanding th<i Inhabit:ants t
here-,
of, and all. the Ne1g?bours of the Main Land, bordering thereabouts, which
c.on-
,
filled of divers Nations and Language?, that leaving
the W
or!hip of their fo
rmerGbds, they iliould forbear
to
facrifice the Bloud or Flefh
of
Men , nor eat
it;
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7.
no
355
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