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Royal
CommentarieI.
BooKIX.
Commanded by thofe famous and experienced Captains which his Father had
left,
and
recommend€d to him
~
twQ
of
which
Officers \\
ere
e{pecially famous
above the reft:, one of which was cal1€d
ChaOch11cfma,
and the other
~i~i:t.
and
Atahualpa
gave out,
that
he would himfelf in Perfon bring up the Rere.
'
Hnafcar
placing gr€at confidehce
in
the words
-0f
his Brother, and much more
in
that
untainted
LJ:>yalty which
the
Indians
had ever born to their
lncM
;
a tefii–
mony of which faithfulnefs
is
given
by
Acojla,
in tbefe words,
taken
out of the
twelfth Chapter of
his
~xth
Book:
''
Without doubt, fuid he,
great
was the
" reverence and affeaion which this
people
!hewed to
their
lncM,
it
having ne•
' ' ver been known that
any
on~
of tnem was e\rer guilty of High-Treafon,
&c.
For whkh reafon
Hllitfcar
fufpetting
nothing le!S
than
fuch
a
f
aithlefs
and
t
reafon–
able defign , did With all
freedom
aad
ge{lerous
liberty give order,
that
they
fhtluld be fupplled with all Pr-0viftons
in
their way, and all kind treaanent iliewed
them, as befitted 5tothers, who w€re travelling to perform the Funeral Rites of
their
father,
and to
take
the
Oaths
of
Fealry
afid Allegiance.
Thus
both
Par–
ties moved on
different confiderat1ons,
that
of
Huttfcar
with all
the fimplidty
and fincericy
imaginabl~,
and the other of
At~hualpa,
With
all
the
fubtile
artifice
arr
d cunning
that
could
be
contriv€d
and learned
in
the
Schools of
Malice.
F.orAtahualpa
being
inf
eriour
ifi
Power and Strength to
his
Brother
Hunfcat,
du
rll:not adventure on an open War ; but
covertly
managing his defigos, made
ku<e
-of
his
game,
which he had certainly loft, had
he
profeffed an
open
eh·
mity.
CH AP. XXXIV.
Huafcar
being advifed of the Treafon,
a/fe111hles
his
Forces.
I
N this order the people of
~itu
marched for the fpace
of four
hundred
Leagues, untill they came within a hundred Leagues of
CtR.Co:
In
which
March, feveral experienced
Governouis
of
Provinces
through
which they
pafled,
obferving chat the order which thefe people kept, looked more like the
Difd–
pline of an Army, than the Rule of Mourners
going
to a Funeral, or of
Vailiils
going to take the Oaths of Fealty and Allegiance ; for that on either of there
oc·
cafions five or
fix
thoufand Men
were
fufficient; and
that
for giving Fealty, the in·
tercourfe of Captains
and
great Men was onely requllire and necelfaty, rather
than fuch
a
croud
and multitude of
common
Souldiers : And farther refleeting
on the
turbulent and
unquiet
temper of
Atahualpa,
which was
always
falfe,
and
his
humour Martial, they could not but fufpeet, that there was fomething mote
intenqed by this warlike Preparation, than what tended ro
Pea~e,
and the pro·
feffions
of a Brother and a Subjett; on which fufpicion and jealoufie they difpac–
ched
fecret
intelligence
to
HRafcar,
befeeching him not
co
rrufi to
his
Bracher
.Atahualpa,
whe
cetrainly came with
other
defigns
than
what he
outwardly
pre·
tended.
·
Upon
this
information
H11afcar
awakening himfelf
from
that dream of fecutity
in
wliich
he flept, difpacched Meffengers with all diligence poffible co
the
Gwer–
nours
of the Provinces of
Antifoyu
and
Co!laftq11,
commanding them immediately
to march to
Couo
with what
Forces
they were able to levy: But to the
Divif100
of
Chinchaf191t,
which was of the greatell: extent, and which
was
the moll
war·
like Nation of all the others, he omitted to
fend
his
Orders,~
becaure
they
were
already
joined
with the Enemies
Army
as they
paifed
through their Counrrer.
The people of
Atahualpa
growing confident, and emboldned by this negllgente and
fecuricy of
H11a[clfr,
and
his
Subje&, arrived within
forty
Leagues of
Cou-o ;
and
chen