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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IX.
'' dued many
Caciques
and
lndian1,
reducing them afl to the obedience of
Ataba–
"
lipa;
of\: hich, when
Guafc
ar received intelligence, and of what they had ac–
': ted, he prefemly
put
him[elf
i.moa pofiure of defence, and
with
.what
force he
could aflemble m
fo
fhort a tune, fie marched from
Co~co
to
~spayp1m,
which
'' is about a
League difl:ant from thence, where joyning
Bahe!
with
Atabalipa
''
G11afcar
was ovenhroV\
n,
and taken Prifoner. The
Fight (as
is faid)
was
f~
<c
bloudy, that
a
hundred and fifty thoufand
Indians
were
flain
in
the
Batte!;
and
" afienvard
Atabalipa
etming
vietorious into
Co~co,
they
killed
Mao, Woman
cc
and Child, [paring none
V\
ho
declared
rhemfolves for
Guafcar,
and
moft efpeci:
" ally
made fearch for the Children of
Guafcar,
and his Wives and Women, who
' \Yere with Child by him
:
Howfoever one of his Wives called
Mama
Yarcay
'' made an
efcape ' ith
her
Daughter
C<!J"
Cuxi
Vitrcay,
who is now
Married
to
«
X -ayre Tupa Inga,
of
V\
horn we nave made mention in this Hiftory,
&c.
Thus
·
far are Words of this Autbour ; and then afterwards in the fequel of
this
Story,
he recounts the cruel treatment and hard ufuge of poor
H11afcar,
during the time
of his imprifonrnent, rogecher with the dolefull complaints he
uttered,
which
we
fhall rehearfe in their due place. This
C~a
Cuxi
P
arcay,
which he fays
1
was
the
Wife
of
Xd
re Topa,
'\\as called
Cuji Huarque,
of whom we {hall difcourfe
hereat:
rer.
The Field where this Bartel was
fought
was called
f2.!!ipaypan
by corruption
though
properly
it had the Name of
~epaypa,
which fignifies a Trumpet,
as
jf
from thence the Triumph of
Atahuttlpa
was
trumpeted,
and fem
its
found into aJl
parts
of
the
Empire.
I remember, that when
I
was
a Boy, I
went three or
fout
times into thofe Fields ' ith other Boys, who were my School-fellows, where
we
enjoyed the recreation of Hawking with fome Hawks, which the
Indian
Faulco-
ners
managed
for us.
·
In
this manner, as we have
related, vvas
all the Bloud-Royal, and Family of the
Jnca-s,
extinguifhed and extirpated
in
the
f
pace of two years and a half; and though
they might in a much Shorter time have exhaufied the veins ofRoyal Bloud, yet to
prolong their
pleafure
in Cruelty,they referved fome on which their appetites might
feed, and fiill be
delighted
in new exercifes of torment. The
~ndian1
fay
that
the
Field where the great effufion of this Bloud was made, was
called
Yahuarpampa,
or the Field of Bloud ; and that it rather took
it
denomination from the Bloud
of the
lncM,
than from that of the
Chanca-s;
for
though the quantity of the Bloud
of the
Chancru
was greater, yet the quality of the
JncM
made theirs much more
efl:imable ;
and
the death of Women and Children being of render fex and
age,
rendered
the many Munhers more tragical and execrable.
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P.