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BooK
IX.
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Royal
Commentaries.
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iligen<re.
This
joyfull
Anfir\~e~
froIT?
Atah11a!pa,
the Meifenger ret?rned '
ith.
all
exp dition by rhe Pofr, remammg ftill ar the Court of
Atahualpa
m expeetat1on
of
Infrructions from
tl
e
Inca
of
what
farther to
atl:
and negotiate therein. The
I nca
re
eiving
this
foft
Anf\\ier with
great
joy
and
fatisfaetion,
replied again,
That
he did not in
the
leafr repine
at the
Po!feffions which his Father
hctd
befrm,·ed on
Atahualpa
;
for that he did again confirm them to him , provided, that he did al–
ways within fuch a term of year repair confraotly ro
c;~co,
and perfon11 the
Homage he had agreed.
~o
which
.Atahua!f.a.
returned anfwer, That he was
ery happy
to
know the
Will
an~
Pleafure of
his
Lord
the
~nca, b~t
much more
to perform it ; which chat he might poe, he would fpeedily repair to the place
appointed, to cake the Oath ofAllegiance; and for the doing thereof in the molt
olemn manner, he delired his Majefties
lic~nce
and permiffion, chat all the
Pro–
vinces of his State might attend him
~hither,
to join
with
him
in
the
folemn
cele–
bration of the funeral Ob[equies of his.Father
H11ayna Capac,
according to the
cu–
fioine obferved by the Kingdom of
~tu~
and fhe
Provinces depending on
it
~
,
and that having accomplillied that ceremony, both he, and all his Subjects, would
take the Oath of Allegiance and Fealty.
HRafcar Inca
eafily confenred co this
gratefull Propofition, which
his
Brother had made to him, giving him to under–
ftand, that he might take his time of coming to
Couo,
when
it
feemed molt con-
, venient, and that he gave
him
leave
to
celebrate the rites
of
his Father's
Fune–
ral
according to the cufiome of
his
Countrey : And fo both the Brothers
ap..
peared fatisfied; the one rejoycing at the good corre[pondence he had with
ills
Brother, little fufpeCl:ing the malicious defigQ that
lay
concealed under it of
be–
reaving him of his Life and Empire ; and the other pleafed himfelf with the
thougnts and conrrivance
of
his damnable Plot, which
he
had
laid
to
make
him...
ielf
Mafier
both of
one
and
the other.
CH AP.
XXXIIi.
The
Suhtilties
which
Atahualpa
ufed to tak§ fufpicion front
the mind of
h~
Brother.
T
Hing_s being thus prepared, the King
Atahualpa
publHhed a
Decree
through
all his Kingdom and Provinces, that
all
people who were able to travel un–
to
Cou:o,
fhould within the fpace of
fo
many days prepare themfelves
co
cake
a
Journey thither, that they might according to the ancient cufiome of
their
Na–
tion celebrate the Funeral Rites of the Gr.eat
Huayna Capac
his Father, and take
the Oaths of Homage and Allegiance to their Supreme Monarch
H11afcar
Jnca
7
and that for the greater glory and fplendour, every one iliould appear
in
bis
heft
Ornaments and Garments befitting fuch a Solemnity; but fecredy he intimated
his
in{huCl:ions to
his
Captains, chat
in
their refpetl:ive Divifions they fhould cake
care to cfiufe fuch feled: Men as were Souldiers, and better armed for
War,
than–
accoucred for performance of the Obfequies ; and that they fhould march in
di–
vers Divifions of five and
foe
hundred
in
a Squadron, and fo difguife the matter
as
to
appear
in
the outward
fhew,
rather like Servants and Attenaanrs, than like
ouldiers ; and that every Divifion fhould march at two or three Leagues dill:ance
each from the other.
And moreover, he gave Orders to the Captains, who led
the Van,
that
when:
they were come within ten or twelve days March of
Cou:o,
that then they 111ould '
fhorten their
~ace,
that
the
Rere might come
up
to
them, who were commanded
co double their March , that
fo
~hey
might overtake thofe in the
an.
In
this
order
th~
Troops of
A tahttalpa.,.
confifting of above
thircy
thoufand feleet
Men >
mofi
b~mg
old veterane
uld1ers, proceeded
in
their March
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who
alfo \
1
ere.
Colil