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Royal

Comnientaries.

BooK

and Officers; the mulrimdes of common people which remained alive, fled and

{hayed

road like !heep without a fhepherd ;

and

many of th m '

andri~g

a ...

bout, nd not knm ing where

g , furrendred themfelves

the Enemy not

being \\

i1ling

to enjoy their freedom

hen their

Inca

was a Prifoner.

vVirh this

iCtory

and

fuccefr, and \ ith

great aTro hy of it, as the Perfon

Huafc.v,

the

Atahualpians

were

highly

exalted ; and for fecuriry of the prize

they corr.mined him to the cuficdy and charge of four Captain_,

~ind

other Soul:

diers of great fidelity, ,,·ho

narrowly "''arched

him,

left he fbould make

an e–

fcape,

that

he never was

out

of their fight eicher by night or day.

And now

Huafcar

being in their hands, it \ as thought neceffary to publifh

and

blaze his Imprifonment through the whole Empire, that

in cafe any People or

Armies {hould

coming

his affiftence,

or fuccour, they might upon

fuch ad–

vices be diverted fro-:n

their

proceedings ; but principally the news hereof

was

difpatched \ ith all diligence

the

Ki~g

Atah11alpa.

This was the furn of the mofl: material paffages

thi War between the

two

B.rothers., who were the laft Kings of

l'eru;

as to other Bacrels which the

Spanifh

Hill:orians relate,

they were

but SkirmHhes which paffed oh the Confines of one

Kingdom and the other on occafion of IncurfioRs, which the Caprains and Go..

vernours of Garrifon.s made : And as

the Imprifonment of

Atahualpa,

was

a fi1am,

falfe report, which he himfelf had given out to amufe

his

Brother

H1Ja(car

and his Subje&s, as was alfo d1at which he had divulged in faying,

that

when he was in Prifon, his Father the Sun had turned him into a Serpent, that fo

he might efcape by creeping through a hole, which was

the Chamber:

which

was onely the Story of a Miracle broachecl and framed to introduce

his

Father

the

Sun for an Authour and Favourer of his.Tyrannies; the which report eafily gained

~elief

in the nmple minds of that people, who were credu.lous ofany thing which

was mentioned in favour of that conceunment which the Sun had cowards his own

Off-fpring.

The ufe which

Atahualpa

made of this viet:ory, was with all the cru–

elty and treachery imaginable ; for publi<hing in

all

places, that his intentions were

to refiore

Huafcar

again to the Government of his Empire; but yet under cerraia

cautions and refl:ricrions, which were co oe agreed anctcapitulated between them,

he fummoned all the

Incas

of the whole Empire, together with the Govemours,

Major-Generals, Captains and Souldiers, to appear at

Couo

at fuch a cerrain

time, that

they might

Witneffes to thofe Articles which ib.ould be confer.

ted between thefe two

Kings

for the mutual peace and quiet ofeach others Subje&.

With thefe

fair

pretences and allurements all the

Incas

of the Bloud-Royal being

deceived, failed not to make their appearance ; which they performed '

ith

that

readinefs of mind, that neither fickneCS, nor old age, nor far dif1ance did debar,

or hinder their cqming; nay, even thofe who might have excufed themfelves

reafon of the remotenefs of their Couotrey, and which might have retarded their

Journey by flow and dilatory Travels; and which were fufpici::ms and jealous of

what (lfterwards fucceeded ; yeyeven thefe again

their own fear and inclinations,

fuffered themfelves to be

~ken

in the open and appearing faare: For

foon as

A.tahulf/,pa

had gotten theiv into his power, he commanded, that they iliou]d all be

put to death; which &!nt.eQte

was

executed

arious

forts o

f crud

ty,

which

fer-

ved to,f€c;ure his Empire f);or'n all Infurrection , or

Plo.cs

againfl:

b.im.

CH AP.