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IX.
Royal
Commentar:ies.
rraeted
out of the Words of the three preceding Authours, who
treat
of thefe
two famous Roads; every one of whidi exalts their praifes to fuch a
degree,
as
moil: pleafes his
fancy,
though
they ,all
~orne
{hort
pf
that praife and
a.dmirati~m,
whidi
is' .due to the Gre·
tnefs
of
fo
mighty
a
Work: For were there nothmg
more in the matter, than onely a continued dHlance of five
hundr~d
Leagues in
length, i.t
were
much
co
be
admired ;
but
when we conlider
cha~
this
!l?ad paffes
.
-0ver afcems on
the
Mounta
ins oftwo, three, and four
Leagues high ;
It IS
then
fo
firange, that nothing feems to.be,
compar~ble
to
it.
Befides all wPich, we mull:
note,
chat
on
th~
higheft tops of
th~
Hill?, from whence
wa~
die
beft
profpecr,.
there were erected
certain
Lodg~,
or Houfes of Pleafure, which were feated
on·
each fide of
the
wa~,
with Stone-flairs to.
gq
up to them, where che Chair-mea
/
which
carried
rbe
Sedans did
ufua11y
refi,
and _where the
lnca1
did
fit for
fome
time taking
the Air,
.and
furveyin~
iri
a
rnoft
pleafant
profpeet all the high and
lower parts of the
Mountaiqs;
which.wore their cqverings
~fSnow,
or on which
the Snow
was
falling,
which
certaiply was a moil: pleafant
view ;
for from
the
tops
of
fame v.ery
high
Me)un_tains one
might
fee fixcy,
fevency, eighty, or
an
hun–
dred Leagues
round;
hl
which variety
of
pro~a:
the piques
o( fame
very high
Mountains
were to be feen,,
th~t
feemed to
touch the Heavens,
and
other Chafins
and
Precipices
fo low
and
deep,
as feemeq
fr~
extend
unto the centre ofthe Earth..
Of
all which Works,
there
is nothing remains
but
Ruines, and fuch as War
and
time have not been able to deftroy. Onely
in
the
Road
by
the Plains, and
in
the defarrs ofSand,
which
are wide nd vafi, and where alfo are fome
Hills and
Dales,
there they have droven in tneir Piles, or Polls of
Wood ;
which being
placed
in
fight one
of another, do ferve for Marks to
dirett Travellers
in
their
way, where there
is.nopath, or beaten road, becaufe
it
being all Sand,
the
track
and
footfieps are covered
by
the
Sand
fo.
often
as
it
is moved by the
Wind :
And
therefore tliefe
Pofis
are
fo
necelfary
to
Travellers,
as the
Needle of the
Compafs'
is co dfreet a Ship through
the floating
Waves•
r
t
CH AP-.
XIV.
._:!hat
Huayn~
Capac
received News how
the
Spaniards
failed
along
the
Coafi
of
Peru.,
I
•
f
T .Vqyna·
Capac
being
bufied
and
empioyed in
the
forementioned
affairs,
and
ll
refid~g
in the
Royal Palaces of
Tumi~ampa,
which are
the
mofi:
Magnlfi~
<;em
of any
m
Peru,
advices were brought him, that fame
{hanger
Nations ,
ne–
yer
before
feen
in
th?fe
~ou~tries,
failed
along
that
fhore
to
mak~
a difcove:r of
~he
Land ; upon
~
hich mtelhgence
Huayna
Capac
was
muc~
furphzed,
entert~in
mg
new
fears and 1ealoufies of an unknown
people,
of
whom
no
account
of their
Nation, o.r
.t~e ~arts
from
whence
they
~me .~ould
be
g~ven.
But we are
to
note,~hat .thIS
Ship
\Yas Commanded
by
Bafco Nunnez
of
Bilbo,
who
was
the firfi:
th.atd1fcov~red th~
South-Sea,
and
the
~amen
were
Spaniards
7
who (as we
have
faidbefor~)
were
the
fi~fr
that
g~ve
the
Name of
Peru
unto this Empire,
which
happened
m
th_e year
~5'15
1
the chfcovery of which Counrrey being two yeacl oe–
fore.
Ther~
lS
an
If1ll:opan,
wI;o
r~ports,
that the Ship and
Spani11rrjs
})~longed
to
Don
Franc_ifco
de
Ptptrro, .
and
hlS
thirteen
~ompanions,
who were the
fiill
Di{:
c<?verers of
Peru
; ,
in which there was a
mifiake
between the
firfi:
Difcoverers,
and
the
firfi
Conquerours : There was
alfo
fame errour as to the time for there was
~fceen
or,.fixteen years difference betwe'en one and' the other •
for'
the firft difcd–
yery
of
Peru,
an~ th~
Name_
giv~n
to
it,
happened
in
the
yd~.r
1 )Is;
and
tlte
y~ar
when
Francifco
Pi~arro, an~
his
Joµr
Brothers, with
Don"Diego
de
Almagro
in–
vaded chat
Countrey was
1
5'
3
1,
and
H11ayna
Caf€1c
died·
eight
years
before ,
being
B
o
o
i
.
in