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BooK
IX.
Royal
Commentaries,,
with
which
goinP cowards hi Mother-in· law, he raifed her
fn:~m
the ground;
and then faid
to
her,
Well doft thou deferve to be called
Mamanchic,
or the common
Mother
(
he would have faid the Mc:ther _of me, an? thy people)
fnce thoH haft
been
fa
provident, as to forefce the Mfenes 1fhsch were coming, and to pro;1ide that remet!J
again.ftthem, which was agreeable to
mj
Honour, and tke Glory
of
my J?_ather
s
Memory: For
which
I
mo.fthearti!J tha1fiz thee, being ajfured, that
in
cafa I hadgwen way to my rage,
1
had to morraw repented the 4[lions
of
this day. Well haft thou performed the office of
a
Mother toJ:J1ards
thy
people,
in
redeeming their lives from deftrullion; in which, Jince tho1t–
haft been
fo
focceflf
ull,
whatfon1er thou hll/f defired
of
me, /halt be accomplifhed
;
and con–
fider,
if
there 6e any thing
elfe
which thou
woHld.ftreq11ire of
me,
return therefore with
happinefa
to
ehy
people
;
pllrdon
t-hem
in
my
name, and
off~r
them what other
g~ace
andfavour
.
thou fee
ft
convenient : And for the better af{urancc
of
thu
mJ
pardon, tak.,e wHh thee the four
Incas,
who areyour Sons, and my Brothers, without other attendance than their
own
Menial
Servants, to n'hom
I
fha/l
give no other Commi/fion, than
onc!J to
fettle them
in
peace
under
a
good
and
wholf
ome
Government.
Which being faid, the
Inca
returned with his
whole Army, commanding them to march along the Coafi:
in
profecution of his
firll:
defign.
The ·ChachapuyM
by
this gratious
Act
of Clemency being convinced of their
errour, became afterwards mofi
loyal
Subjects to
the
Inca
;
and in remembrance
and gratitude for fuch high and fublime generofiry, they hallowed and efieemed
that place Sacred where this difcmirfe had paired between the
Inca
and
his
Mocher–
in-Iaw, fencing it about, that for ever after, neither Man., nor Beafi, nor yet the
Fowls of the
Air,
fhould fet their foot, or tread that Sacred place: For fecurity
of which they encornpaifed
it
about with three Walls; the firfi: was of Stone
rarely pollihed ,
with
all its Corniilies ; the fecond was of rough and rufiick
Stone, for
better fecurity
of
tbat within; and
the
third was
of
Clay,
or
Sun-burnt
Bricks, for defence of the other two, being more expofed
co
the weather : Of
which fome Reliques and Ruines
ftill
remain, and might have endw-ed for ma–
ny Ages, had not the
CovecoufnefS of
the
New.come
Guefis overthrown thofe
Edifices
in
the Qieft of Riches.
.
.
CH AP.
VIII.
Of the Gods, and Cu(loms of the Nation of
Manta ;
of their
SubjefJion
;
together with many other
Barbaro~
Nations.
H
Vayna Capac
having.fitted and prepared his
Camp
in order to the Conquefi:
he
~ad forrn~rly
deligned along the Sea-coafi, he arrived at the Confines of
that
Provmce~
which
was
called
Manta.,
within
the jurifdiction of
which
lyes that
Harbour,
~h1ch
the
Spaniards
do now call
Puerto
riej9,
or the Old Haven: the rea–
fon of
w~ich
Nam_e., we have already given, at the beginning of this Hillery..
ihe
Nauves
of
thIS
Countrey, and
all
the Inhabitants
for
many Leagues on the
S~-fide Norc~w~rd.,
obferved
the
fame Cull:oms, and the fame Idolatrous Reli–
g~on;
Worlluppmg the Sea and
Fifh,
of
which
there was great abundance,
fer–
vmg them
b_och
for.
foo~,
and for Gods: They alfo adored Lions, and Tygers, and
Serpents
of
m~red1ble b~gnefs,
and
other t:eeping
creatures, as they befi
fanfted
:
~r
hbove
all m
the
Valley of
kfanta,
whICh
was
tbe Metropolis, or chief place of
a
t
at
Cho
1
u~trhey
;
they
W orlli1pped an Emerald of a prodigious bignefs being
not muc .
e1s.
t
~n
the
Egg
of an Ofirich.
'
At
~e1r
P.
apal
F~llivals. th~y
expofed
it
to publick view,
fo
that the
Indutm
came
r an
ear to
W:
orflup it, and offer Sacrifices to
it,
bringing Prefents of
leffer
~meralds'
the Pnell:s and the
~aciquc
of
Manta
telling the people, that the
Offerm~s
of the leifer Emeralds, which were the Children and Off- pring of this
A
a a
grea