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IX.
Royal Commentaries.
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CH AP.
VII.
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Of the
Mutiny
which arofe aniongfl the
Chachapuyas,
and
the Valour of
Huayna Capac.
W
Hilll: the King
Huayna
Capac
was
preparing for
his
return to
Couo,
and to
vifit feveral Kingdoms in
his
way, many
Caciq11es,
or Lords of thofe
Provinces
adjoining
to
the Coaft, which were reduced to the Obedience of the
Empire,
prefented
themfelves
with
fuch
~ifts
and
Offtrings as
their Countries
afforded ;
amongft which they brought a
Lion
and
a
Tyger, ?oth Creatures
moft
fierce
in
their Nature,
and
which
the
Inca
very
much efteemmg,
gave
order that
they {hould be kept
and
nourifhed with
fingular
care;
by whicn
Creatures God
was
pleafed
to
work
fo
great a
Miracle
in
favour of
the
Chriftians,
(as we
{hail
hereafter relate) that they
~ere
adored
by
thelndian.r
for it,
and
efieemed like
their
IncM
for
Children of the Sun.
The
Inca Huayna Capac
having
provided
all things neceflary for government of
Affairs both
in
War and Peace, departed
from
Tumpi.~
intending
in
his
J
oarney
to
vifit one half of his Kingdom in
length>
as far as the
ChicM,
which is the ulti–
mate Confines
of
Peru,
and
then taking a compafs to vifit
the
other
half,
which
·es
to
the
Eall:ward.
And being in the
Countrey
of the
ChichtU,
he
employed
and fubfiimted certain Vifitors
to
furvey the Kingdom of
Tucma,
called
by
the
Spam'art& T ucuman,
and
others to vifit
Chile;
and with them
he
fent
many
Vefi:–
rnents, of fuch fort as the
Inca
himfelf wore, and other Curiofities for the Gover–
nours, Captains, and other Minillers of the
King;
as
alfo
for the
CuractU,
who
were Natives of thole Countries, that
fo
they might in the Name of the
Inca
ob–
lige
them
with thofe Prefents which were
highly
ell:eemed.
In
his Journey
from
Couo,
and his return thither, he vilited the
Fortrefs,
which was then almoft
fini–
fhed, and the better to give Life
and
Encouragement
to
the chiefArchite&, and
La
urers in the Work, he himfelf would lay his own hand to fome part of the
Edifice. Thi Vifitation or Progrefs being made, in which four
Years
were fpent,
he
commanded ouldiers to be
levied,
for the farther Conqueft of
Tumpi:t
to
the
Northward, where it firetches
it
felf along the Sea-Coafi; and whilll: he refided
in thd Province of the
Cannaru,
which was the way, as he thought, that did lead
to
!2.!!_it1t,
that he might
the
better defcend for
Conquefi
of
.that
Coaft
j
News
wa.s brbught to him, that the Inhabitants of the great Province of
Chach11puyM~
feeing
him engaged in Wars and Conquefis of great importance, took that oppor–
tunity
co make
a Rebelllon; and confiding in the fafinefS of their craggy and
mountainous Countrey, and
in
the numbers of their People, which were fturdy
and ftout, had
made
a general Maffacre of all the Governuars and Captains, and
many
of the Souldiery, which the
Inca
had appointed to prefide over them; and
fuch of the Sould1er, whom they had fp1red, they made
Slaves
to
ferve
them
in
the bafefl: Drudgeries, and meaneft Offices.
So
foon
as
this
Intelligence was
brought to the ears
bf
Huayna
Capac,
with great anger
and
difdain, he cou.nter–
manded
all his Troops from their march on the Sea-coafr, and appointed them to
bend their courfe towards the
ChachapitJM,
refolving
to puni(h
them
with
the
ex–
tre~niry
of fevere
Juff
ce; and he in perfon went to the place which he had ap–
ponJted
fi?
the
general Rendezvous; and
whil~ ~isArmy
was gathering into a
Body,
he fem
h1
ummons
to
the
Chachapuyas,
requmng them
to
return
to
their
Obedi–
ence, and
declaring pardon to
all Cuch
as ihould voluntarily fobmit themfelves.
but there
brutith
peop1e
_infl:~ad.
of_
i:emrning a
fubn:iffive
ahd penitent Anfwer,
tr~ated th~ M~ifengers
:v1th
i~d1gmt~es
and opprobnous \Yords, threatning them
with
~eaL11,
if
r.hey
did
not
immediately depart ;
the which rude
treatment
the
/~ca
highly
reremmg1
made all the fpeed imag·nab e
to
unit
his
rce ,
and ha–
vmg affi:mbleJ and fitted his
Army,
he marched
to a. ·earRiver, \Vhere they
'
found
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