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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
IX.
From the Subjecuon of thefe people on the
Main ,
the
Inca
paffed into
th~
Ifiand,
in
his
way
~hereunto
he encountred a flight refifience on the
Sea,
but
fo
inconfiderable and weak, that the Enemy was immediately overcome, and yielded
to Mercy. Whereupon the
Inca
commanded all the principal Authours and Coun–
fellours of
this
Deftgn,
together with the Captains,
and
Souldiers of
chiefeft
note, who were
in
any wife concerned
in
this Treafon, to be feized, and brought
before
his
Tribunal of
J
ufiice; to whorn one of the Generals made a grave
Speech , reprefenting to them the deformity of their WickednefS, aggravated
with all the black circumfrances that were poffible; for that whilfr the
Inc11
was
fiudying their good , and endeavouring to reclaim them from
their
befiial and
bruti!h Life, that they might enjoy a condition more agreeable to a rational
Be–
ing; that then they were contriving
to
difappoint
hls
good Intentions by the
worll: and fouleft Cruelties: Wherefore fince Jufiice was
to
be performed, and
that the
Inca
could not exercife that Clemency and Compaffion which was natu–
ral to his Temper, they were to
prep~re
themfelves
to
receive a punHhment
agree–
able to their demerit; upon which Sentence being paffed, it was executed with
divers forts ofDeath, according as the
Inca
direti:ed; that it might have fome con–
formity to that kind of Cruelty which they att:ed on the people of the
Inca,
they
thre\:
fome into the Sea, with great weights to fink them to the bottom; others
they ran through the Body with their Lances, and pitched them on Spears
before
the Gates of their Temples; others
'~:ere
quarterea after their Throats were
cut;
others they killed with their own Weapons , and others were hanged.
Pedro
de
Ciefa
having at large defcribed the particulars of this Rebellion, and rhe Revenge
of
it,
writes afterwards
th~fe
Words.
"
In
this manner many rhoufands of
Ind;–
"
am
were killed and defiroyed with different forts of death; the principal
Lea–
" ders of which Councils were either drowned or empaled. And afrer
H11a7na.
"
Capac
had done Jufiice upon thefe Offenders, he commanded that
this
difmal
cc
fiory fhould be made the Subjelt of thofe Songs which were to be recited on
c,
their days, and tlme-s of Calamity, which they
in
dolefull Ditties compofed
'' in their Language and Proprieties of their Countrey. After which the
Inc""
at–
" tempted to make a Caufey over the River
G11ayaquile,
which certainly was a
'" great and magnificent "' ork, according to thofe remains which to
this
day
ap–
" pear of
it;
but it was never fini<hed according to the manner
that
he defigned,
" being called to
chis
day the Pafs of
Guayna Capa
•
all which being performed,
' commands were given to obey the Governour who refided in the Fortrefs of
"
Tttmhe~,
''-'ith
other matters relating to Government; and fo the
ln~a
departed
'' from tho[e Cl!!_arters.
Thus far are the Words of
Pedro de Cief"·
HAP.