380 / 1060
Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IX.
great One, were the mofi pleafing and acceptable Sacrifice that they could make
to
this Godde(s ; the which doetrine being inculcated into the people
by
the
co–
veroufneii of the Priefl:s, was the occafion that vaft numbers of Emeralds were
amaffed together in this place, where they were afterwards. found
by
Don Pedro
de
Alvaradt>,
and his Companions, of which
Garrilaffe de la Vega,
my Mafter was one
\:
hen they were employed in the Conquefl: of
Peru :
bm they being' unskilfuli
Lapidaries, were of opinion, that there
tone, if they \Vere true, and not Gla(S
could
neve~
be broken ; and
therefor~
in the trial of them
bro~e
the greatefr
par~
of them with Hammer upon an Anvil : But rhe great one, which\. as their God.
def, was conveyed away by the
I ndians
in fuch manrier, fo foon as they under-
.
fiood that the
Spaniards
had invaded their Countrey, that with all the diligence
and menaces which could
be
ufed, it could never be recovered; as alfo other vaft
and immenfe treafures which have been loft and embezled in that Countrey.
The Natives of
Mama,
and the parts adjacent, and efpecially thofe that live
along the Coaft (though we mufi exempt the
Serranos,
who inhabit within the
Land) did ufe and profefs openly, and without fhame, that abominable vice of
odomy, and were more addieted to
it
than all the other Nations we have
be–
fore mentioned, as
guilty
of this fin.
Their Marriages were contraCted, on con–
dition that the Parents and Friends of the Brideproom fhould firft enjoy the
Bride before the Husband. Thofe which they took in the War they flea>d, and
filling their Skins with Allies, they hanged them up at the Gates of their T ernples
,,. in fignal of Viltory, or in the publick places where they danced.
To this people the
Inca
fent his accufiornary Summons, requiring them either
to fubmit tnemfelves to his Empire, or prepare
to
defend themfelves by Arn}.S :
But this peQPle of
Manta
had a long time fince been well a!fure4 that their
force
was not fufficient
to
refifl: the power of the
Inca,
though they had been able to
have made an Alliance with the neighbouring Nations
~
for confidering that they
were a brutifh fort of people, without Government, Union, or Law, there was
no poffibility of reducing them within any terms of confederacy; and therefore
they all with much facility fubmitted themfelves
to
ll#ayna Capac.
The-
Inca
re..
ceived them very gratioufly, treating them with kindnefs and rewards; and
ha–
ving placed Officers and Governours over them, and ln!lruetours co teach them
1eir Religion, Laws and Cufioms, he proceeded afterwards in his Conquefi
to
another great Province called
Caranque.
In
the pares adjacent there were many
mher Nations, all brutifh, living
ithout Law, Religion or Government.
The
Conqueft of them was performed without any difficulty, for they never attemp–
ted
to
defenq themfelves; and if they had, it would have been to little purpofe,
being all of them, though united together, an unequal match for the power of the
Inca.
In
the fubjeCt:ion and difpofal of thefe people, the fame rules and methods
·vvere
ufed, as with the former, over whom Governours and Inflruetour were feat
to prefide, that they might rule and teach them.
Proceeding
fon
ard in thefe
Coaquefis, they came at length to other Provinces more barbarous and
fottifh
than
any as yet inhabiting along that Coafi ; for the Men and Women cut and fla{hed
their faces with fharp flints, and moulded their Children heads into a deformed
fhape, different
to
what nature had given them: For
fo
foon as their Infants '''ere
born, they clapt a fmooth Plate upon their foreheads, and another on the hinder
parts of the head; the \ hich was firaitned every day harder and harder, untill
they came to the Age of four or five years ; by which time the head was
grm·~
n
broa on ead fide, and con[equently the forehead low , and the face contraeted
in the length: And to make themfelve yet more deformed, they cut off the hair
behind, and on the crovv n of the head, leaving onely locks on each fide ; nor were
thefe locks of hair combed, or pleated, but frified and
frO\
fed,
to
make their
countenance yet more monfl:rous and deformed · their food was for the mofi part
ifh, (for Fifhery was their chief employment) Jikewife they ate Herbs, and
Root , and fuch ' ild Fruit as rhe Wood produced ; they went naked, and
~'or·
.
lhipped the God which their
eighbours adored. There
ations were called
Apichiqui, Pichnnji, Sttva,
I'ecllanjimiqni~
Pampahut!ci,
and
the like. T hefe people
be–
ing reduced, the
I nca
proceeded
to
another Nation, called
Saramif[n,
and then co
another named
Pa/fau')
which is fimated direClly
uhder
the
.Equ·
tial line;
a~dd
there were yet more barbarou
th
in
the refi , for they owned n
ods, nor di
the choughrs of a God e\ er enter into their confideration · for they were not
a!fc–
dated in any political communion , nor had
they
H ou
[es
,
bu
11\
ed in
hello'\
Trees