4000003870

R oyal

Commentaries.

BooK

IX.

Bio d-

) al , botl Men, Women and Children, over

\,·hich

more tender Sex that

uelty. might

~riu

fubjeeted them

t~ t~e

m<?fr exquifite torments, that

h1 ryramucal malice could invent; and not fat1atmg h1mfelf fufficiencly with

his

\ ·n

fle111 and bloud,

his

unhumane rage proceeded

a defiruction of

all

the

Ser–

vants and

ependancs on the Royal Court, \.vhich (as \Ve have

faid)

were ve

nU1

.e ·ous ;

for

Offices were not confined to fingle perfons,

but

Villages

T owns, '

hic

h w

ere obliged to ferve

their

turns,

fuch as Porters

the

Gare

Sweeperc;,

~t.er-

be~rers, Gardine~s,

and the

~ike

;

all

w~ich b~

their

Villa

and Communi

ties

bemg employed

thefe fervices,

had

their Habitations for

fpace

of five,

fix

and feven Leagues round

Couo,

whom he

totally

defiroyed.

and

nor

being contented

ith a Ma{facre of the lnhJbitants, he demolHhed their

Dwel–

lings,

and put

all

to a miferable devafl:ation ; and yet

his

cruelties had proceeded

farther, had not the

Spaniards,

who in the furious progrefs of

his

Tyrannies enrred

that Countrey, given a fl:op

his farther executions.

N ow whereas rhe

paniards

a fhort

time after their coming took this

Tyrant

A tahP.a rpa,

and in the publick Market-place putting him to the Wrack executed

him before the people in the moll: exemplary manner ofRunilhmenc;

which

when

the

Indians

obferved, they prai[ed their God the Sun, who had fem the

Spaniards

perform jufiice, and revenge himfelfof the Tyrant, who had de.lhoyed

his Chil–

dren, and all rhofe ofhisBloud and Family: For which reafon the

lndiam

looking

upon the

Spaniards,

as thofe who were fem from their God, did yield entire obedi–

ence

them, furrendring themfelves abfolutely

their difpofal, which

was a

means to facilitate their Conqueffs ; for they adored them as the Progeny

which

was defcended from their God

Piracocha,

who appeared in

dream to one

of their .

Kings, and therefore they gave the Name of

Piracocha

to the

Spaniards.

this falfe fupRofition they conceived this firnple fancy, that when they

heard

the Cocks crow, which the

Spaniards

brought in, and were the firll that were ever

feen in

Peru,

they imagined that

the

Co.cks pronounced the word

Atah11alpa

ab–

horrence of

his

detefiable tyrannies; whence contracting the word, they

called

Cocks

and

Hens by the Name of

G11alpa:

And whereas the

Indians

recounced

thefe

Fables

to their Children, whereby they defcended

way of tradition

after

A–

ges;

the Boys, ;vhen they heard the Cocks

crow, wol1ld

anfwer

the fame

tone,

crowing out,

A tahualpa

;

and

muft confefs, when

was

Boy,

that

ufed,

a–

mongft

dH~

other young

Jndianf,

imitate the fame tune when I ran about

the

Streets.

And

thu

we Children quavered out

AtahHalpa,

imicatjng,

near as we could,

the voice of the Cock

Nor did we onely tune his Name to our Song, but

brought the Names of his principal Captains into the Air of our Mufick, as

Ch11/l–

c11chima

~illifcacha :

And

&minav i,

which fignifies the Eye of aStone, becaufe

had a

Pearl

(as

e call it) on one of his Eyes.

BIM

Valer1t

having

his

loofe

and

!Canered Papers given

account of the fudden Death of

A tahualpa;

farther

faich,

that though he had been cruel to bis Relations, and chofe of his Bloud,

yet

in the Government

his own people he was endued with incomparable

Excel·

lencie'"", eBdearing them to him by many obliging circmnfl:ances, and at lafr

Ele–

gant Latl0

u[es

thefe words :

'' Hence it was, that

foon as his Death

was

di–

ulged amongfr his Subjell:s, they would comfort tbemfelves

faying, that the

'' very Cocks which the

Spaniard.r

had brought over would not

fuffey

the Name

" fo

great a Perfon to perifh, or be forgotten, lamenting

their dolefull tone the

'' Name of

Atahualpa

;

and therefore they gave the Name of

Atttb1111lpa

to all

Cocks, which word the

brdjan.r

of all Nations

vt:11garly

received, as did alfo the

Sp~niard.1

and Preachers take up

that

word, when they would exprefs the

Name

'' of a Cock to the

Indians.

Thus far are theWords of

Bl1t-1 Valera,

who received

this

elation in the Kingdom of

~itu,

from the Subje& of

Atah1111/pa,

wl10

were

as well inclined to him, a good abjetts are to their natural King : And on the

contrary, fuch as lived in

Couo,

and \Vere of a different faetion.l interpreted the

crowing of the C ock \ ith

A tahualpa

his

voice, to be by

ay ofabhorrence and

deceftation of the m ny cruelties and tyrannies of

hich he was guilty. By wnich

I fuppo[e,

chat

have fufficiemly now confuted the three former Conjet1ures; and

that

have clearly proved chat there were no Cocks or Hens in

Pent,

oefore

the

C onquefr ' hich the

paniardt

made of ir.

As the

Spaniard.s

brought Hens and Pigeons

fir.fl

: into

Peru,

alfo

they brought

Peacocks thither from

Mexico ,

for before th

at ti

me none of

that

kind

had been

feeo