4000003870

BooKIX.

Royal

Co1nmentaries.

better

cred nee

'11?,Y

word1, you

may be p!eafed to

come forth

and

foe

the

truth here_of tefti–

j ied

your own

Eye1;

and then

you_

~hink.,,

fit,

you.may be

pleafa.d.to

ta'k!

far!ker

irforma–

ion from the other Diviners,

Magiciam, concerning

thefe

pr_odigtoUJ Appantions..

T~e

Inca

accordingly came forth from his Chamber, and

ha~rng behel~

thefe S1&ns

tb'"'

Heavens he

Gtlled

for

all

the Diviners and Progno{hcamrs which he mamta1-

ned

his Court; amongfr which there being one of trae Nation of

Yauyu,

who

\vas much efieemed above the

reft,

and that havmg beheld· and confidered thefe

Circles gave the fame judgment thereupon as the former bad done. Howfoever

H1tvt)'na'

Capac,

though he entertained

fad

apprehenfions and fears hereof within

his

own

Brealt

yet not to difcourage his People, he feemed

01ake

fmall

account of

thefe

affrighting

Stories, telling the Magicians, that unlefs the

Pachacamac

himfelf

{hould

reveal the fame

him by his own Words, he wouid not give credit

fuch

Sayings;

Ftrl"

poJ!ible,

faid

he,

that my

FAther the

SHn

Jh~ld

abhor and deteft

own

Bloud, and

far abandon them,

to yield them up to a total

deftru,C!ion?

And fo

difmHfed his Prognofiicators. Howfoever refletting within himfelf upon what they

had faid,

anq

conlidering how it agreed with the Prophecies o( an-a9dent Qracle,

and comparing

pall:

things with die prodigious Novelties of

th~

prefent rimes,

which appeared and <hewed themfelves

every Element; as alfo the

Ship

which

failed along the Coaft, with a fort of People never before feen

thofe Seas; all

thefe things .being taken together, dj.d greatly move and dill:urb the Mind of

Hu–

ayna Capac

with inward

i'ear

and apprehenfion;

for

which reafon he always kepc

an Army in a

readinefS,

compofed of his mofi experienced Sou1diers and Officers,

which he drew out from the Garrifons of thofe Provinces.

ordained alfo tha

many Sacrifices fhould be offered to the

Sun,

and that all the Diviners and

Magi–

cians in their refpeetive Provinces fhould confult their

familiar

Demons, and par–

ticularly the great

Pachacam/;f,C,

and rhe prating Devil

Rimac,

who always gave

anfwers to all demands; and

enquire and know of them whethei: thofe ftrange

and new Apparitions in the Heavens, and in the Sea, did potcend either good or

evil to the Empire.

The

Anfwers from

Rimac

were

dubious and obfcure, that

they could not promife themfelves any great _good, nor yet did they feem to

prog–

nofiicate any affiighting evil. Howfoever all the Div.i.ners prefaging nothing but

ill,

the whole Empire remained

terrour and fear of fome approaching mifchief

and calamity; yet in regard no confiderable misforrune berell that peopl

for the

fpace of three or four Years, the remembrance thereof began

wear out, every

one returning to

his

ufual quietneIS, and fetled way of living,

which

they con–

tinued

for

feveral Years, untill the death of

Ruayna

Capac.

The relations of thefe

Prognofl:ications which we have mentioned,

~ere,

befides the common report,

delivered particularly by two Captains, who

had

formerly been of

the

Guard to

J-!uayna

Capac,

and being each of them of the age ofeighty years, were both

bap~

azed; the elde(l: of them was called

rohn'Pechuta,

his

own Name remaining for a

furname after Baptifm, as was common to the

Indians.;

the other

was

called

Chau–

Rimachi,

hut his Chrifiian Name I

have

forgot:

Thefe Ceij)tains, when rhey

related the ftories of thefe unhappy prefages,

with

the fuccefres of thofe times

they would always burll: into Tears;

that it was neceifary ro divert them

wid;

fome other Difcourfe_, before they would ceafe their Tears and LamentatiollS.

The

Tefiament and Death

Huayna

Capac,

with many other particulars which

af–

terwards fucceeded, were delivered to

old

Inca,

whofe

Name

was

Cuji Hu–

a/lptt,;

but the cruelties

which

Atahualpa

exercifed upon

all

thofe ofthe Blond Royal

received from the relation of my own Mother, and

her

Brother, who was called

Don_ Fernando

Huallpa Tupac Inca Yupanqui,

who were in thofe days, both of them

Ch.ildren of ten Years of age,

and

lived in the

fury

and rage of

all

tho[e troubles

\~hich

.contmued for the fpace of two years and

a half,.

untill

time as the

Spa·

mards

mvaded that Countrey,

!hall

relate in its due pla'e together

\'Vi

th the

ma~ner

how they, with Corne few ot11ers of the Royal Bloud,

~fcaped

from death,

which

Atahualpa

had defigned for them, which turned greatly

the advantaoe of

the Enemy.

CHAP.

373

•\