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BooK
IX.
being
a
valiant People.,
much
fnrpaffin~
our.r
i".
11/l
!'ointJ of Excellency.
Lik
!wi.feJOH
are
to obfcrve
that
in me
the
numhr:r
of
twelve
Krng1
J
completed; and
I
farther
mak!
·nonm
toyo:t
that
in
a
+ew
Year.s after
11",Y
departme
01tt
of
thiJ L ife, that tbis new
1Vat1on
wtL
invade
yo11
a?.d
then
m
be
accomplifhed
thttt
which
011r £.,ither the
11n
hath revealed, th:lt
they
Jhall
become
our
urdJ
an~
Mafters.
wherefore [ :11charge
OH
to
ferve them
M
A~e~,
for
they
tri
ever
thinrT
h~ve
the advan
~ge
of
JOH;
th~1r
_L
:lv
u
better than
yo1tr.r,
their
Arrm
and
military
D1(c1plme
mfJre
warli
e, and
more
mv1"ob!e
tht.m
01trs ;
and laj/!J, I
Leave my Peace
with
you, for
I
am fummoned b my F..
uher
the
1111
to reft and repofe
with
him.
Pedro
de
Cieca
in the
44t.1
hapter of
is
ook touche u on this Pro h }
, ·hich
H1111.yna
lCapac
h
d dehv red, concerning the Invafton of the
Spaniards,
and
that afcer hi
eign the Empire would be tranfiated t a llranger people, whi h
w
like
th
fe
that failed in the
hi . All
which th
Inca
told
hi people
in
Tu-
ip
'l'Jja,
which ·
a
oumrey not
fa r
fr
m
.f2.EitH,
hete, it is
faid ,
the news
~as
firfi: br
g
t
of
the
paniard..r,
ho \ ·ere the Difcoverers of
Peru.
Francifco
Lope~
de
Gomar
1,
in
the
1
i
)
th
hap.
of his Book, relating the Difcour[e
\l\
hi h
interv ned
b
t '
-~n
Hut{car
and
Hernando
de
oto,
(
'ho
wa
afien\
ard
Governour
f
the
F/orid..
i,)
·
nd
Pedro de! Barco,
fc
irh,
that when they two
trav
lied alone
from
Caj{ttm,trCtl
to
Couo,
(a
\Ve
fhall
relate in its due
lace,)
HJJafcar
being then
a Prifoner m n l1: mher
ifcourfes
\l\
hich he recount
f
him, report farther
f
him in
thefc \
rd
·hi
h follO\'
'
And
1
fl:ly
he aifured th
m,
that he
' ·a
'' the true
an
)a,
'tul Lord
and Heir
of thefe
Kingdom~,
and that
Ata/Ja/iba
\Va
'' a Tyrant and Ufurper;
nd that he would fee the
aprain of the Chrillian ,
' ' and infor
hi
tn {(ch, that {( he might re enge hi Injurie , and rell re him
'' t
hi
Lit~ert)
J.ndKin~dom
;
for
that his ather
GHaJna
Capllc
had at the time
''
f
his
ea
th
c
mmrnd d
him
t be
a
friend
to
the
eople wh
''ere \ 'hire and
" fair, '
e:?ring
ear
, for they'
·er
tO
e
Lord of thofe Countries,
&c.
o
that this Prophecy
''a
ommon]y known in
all
Peru,
as
all
Hifiorians
\:
rite.
All
the preceding
pdl
ti u ars delivered by
HuaJna
Capac,
were efieemed to be
·his lafi
ill
and
fl:ament, and held by the
Jndi-.msin
high
efiimati
n,
and
therefore th y com
h d
mofl: pun&lally
v.i
ith
hi
Command .
I
remember that on
day
the old
Inca
formerly fpoken of. difcourfin" before my Mother, and relating
thefe particular matter , and of the coming in of the
Spaniard,,
and how they gai–
ned die Countrey,
I
t
ol
an oc ·aGon
t0
a
k
him, how it came
t0
pafs
that this
ountrey,
ing
f<
r
cky and mountainou as it i , and the people \\'arlike, fo
that they c uld make
nquefi of many Province , and form a mighty Empire,
1
O\\
I
fay, ·
t
m
t
paG that th y 01ould fubmit, and render themfelves
tO
fo
mall
and {(
i
fc
·ion a
number
a
the
paniard1
"'er
?
In anfwer unto which he
repeated the
ld I ro hecy. oncerning the
Spaniards,
celling me, that the
Inca
had
ommanded them to obey and [erve th m, as a people ndued \' ith many more
Ex–
cellen
i
than the
r •
and ha ing faid this, he turned to me, and with anger in his
ace, re1 ro\· d me
~
r having termed them Coward , and unwife; and in anfwer
to my dem,md he
t
1m , That the lal1: Words \\ hich our
Inca
uttered, where–
by
he con m
ld
d u
t
r Ggn our m ire, and fubjeet our felve
to
a !hanger
an n
\\ e1
mu h mor p
· rfull and available than all the Force and Arm
\\ hich
'OU·
I
'l
Kr
and h·
om anion brought into
thi
Coumrey but this he
faid
t
th
w
the v
ili
ity \ hKh the omrnand of their own King had with them ·
and hO\\
mu~h
more the
ayings and lnjun
~on
of
Huayna Capac,
delivered
a~
the hour o
h1
.uh,
wh wa the
refi and mofr beloved Prince to them of
. r •
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