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BooKIX.

Royal

Commentaries.

Trees which are very capacious

thofe Mountains; they had no propriery in

Wiv~

nor Children but mixed together as they cafually met, and ufed odomy

in an

~Ren

manner:

~hey

knew not

l~ow

to cul.tivate .the Land, or doe. any other·

thing which is conducing to humane hfe.

Th~ir

.Bodies

~ere

naked

~ithout

aRy

habit ; their Lips they cur and flafhed both w1thm and without

their Faces they

painted in four quarters, with divers colours; one part was yellow, another blew,

another red and another black, changing the colours as they d1ought

fit :

T~ey

never combed their heads but fuffered their hairs to grow Ieng and matted, bemg

full of {haw or dufi or

~ny

thing that fell upon them; in iliort, they were'-' orfe

than beafis.

'In

the year

1 )60,

when I went for

Spain,

I remember I faw fome

of thefe people at a place where we touched to take fre{h water, and remained

there for three or four days ; and there rhefe people came out

us in their Boars

·made of Ruilies to trade wirh us, and fell us their great

FHh,

which they firuck

with their Fifgigs; which they performed with fuch dexterity, that the

Spaniards

took great pleafure .to fee them, and would bargain for them before they firuck

chem : their price was made for Bisker and Fle!h, for they had no value for Silver :

their Priviries they covered with leaves, or barks ofTrees, not for rhe fhame

they

had of them in the.way of common mode(ly, but out of refpeet to rhe

Spaniard1

!hare, they were falvage and barbarous above imagination.

It is faid, when

Hua_yna

Capac

obferved the barrennffS of thofe Countries, being

nothing but Mountains ; and the befiiality of that nafiy people, which was fo fi:u–

pid, that he defpaired .of ever reducing them to a tolerable Oeconomy ; that

then he fhould

fay

his

people,

Come, and let m return again, .far thefe defar·ve not

the

Honour

our

Dominion.

At which \Vords the whole Army faced about, and

returned, leaving the people of

Paf[au

in their ancient filthinefs and brutality.

C H A P.

. IX.

Of the Giants which were zn that C011ntrey,

and

the

de–

flruClzon .of

them.

Efore we conclude our Hillery relating to the affait.5 of this Countrey, we can..

not omit one notable parricular, which the Natives by tradition from their

· Forefarhers have received, telling us of certain Giants which came to chat Com:i–

trey

by Sea , and landed at that Point, or Cape, which the

Spaniards

call Sr.

He–

len's,

becaufe they firfl: difcovered it upon that day ; and though the

Spanifh

Wri–

ters mention Giants, yet there is none who treats of them

much at large as

Pe–

dro

Ciefa

do~h,

who took his information .from

t~e

people of that Countrey,

where thefe Giants relided, we fhall make ufe of his Relation, and rehearfe his

words

v~1"6atim,

as he fets them down; for though

T:ofaph

Acefla,

and the Accoun-

. rant-General

Augufline

Carate

touch thofe particulars ; yet none defcribe them

much at large as.

Pedro de Cie fa,

whofe Words are thefe, in the p.d Chapter of

hlS

Bo?k: " Seemg that there are many reports of Giants in

Peru,

which, ac–

cordmg t? common fame, landed ar the Cape of Sc.

Helen,

which lyes near to

Puerto Vie;o;

I have thought

fit

to declare my

opinion

in the cafe without

re~

:: gard ·to the

vari~ty

of con:1mon report , w_hich oft.en

m~gnifies thi~gs

above the

, , truth. The Natives of thtS Countrey havmg received it by tradition from their

F~thers,

tell us, that many Ages pafr, there was a fort of Men of an exrraor..

:: dmary fize, which

arri~ed

at that Countrey in great Junks ; they were

large,

,, that. a

~an

of our ?rdmary fiature reached but to their knees ; and that their

" bodies

~emg ~roportionable

thereunto, (as we may meafure the body of

Hercu–

, ,

lei

h1~

foot)

w~re fira~ge monfi~rs

to behold : their Heads were great, co–

vered WHh long hair hangmg to their ilioulders ; their Eyes \ ere as big as Sau-

a a

cers ;