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IX.
Royal Commentaries.
CH
AP.
XXXIX.
Of
what farther
Cruelty
was
nfed towards the
Servants
of
the
CGurt.
B
U T to return to the Cruelties of
Atahualpa,
who not content
with
the death
and llaughter of all the Royal
Family,
together with the Lords, Captains
and Nobility, proceeded to Maffacre all the Servants of the Court, who were Do–
mefl:icks within the Hou[e ; of whofe Funetion and feveral Minill:eries we have
given a particular in ics place, for thefe were not particular perfons, but whole Vil-
,
lages to whofe care
it
belonged to provide Servants for the Court, and to change
and
~ter
them according to their times of waiting; with thefe alfo
Atahnalpa
had
a quarrel for the Relation they had to the Court, as alfo becaufe they bore the
Name of
Inca,
which was conferred on them by that Rrivilege and favour which
the
firfi
Inca Manco
Capac
conferred on them.
Up_on
thefe
Atah11alp11
vented his
Cruelties, but with more exquifite torment on fuch who were more near Atten–
'1ants on the Perfon of the King, fuch as Porters, Keepers of the Wardrobe, and
~ewels,
Butlers Cooks and the like; with whofe lives not contenting
himfeH-;
together with the blondof their Wives and Children, he proceeded to bum and
deltroy their Houfes and Villages which they inhabited; but
fuch
as were
Ser–
vants at a farther dillance, fuch as Cleavers of Wood, and Drawers of Water>
,were more gently treated; for fome of thofe they decimated, killfug every tenth
or fifth Man, in fome places every third Man ; fo that all the Villages within foe
or feven Leagues of
Couo
f
uffered a particular and extraordinary Perfecution, be–
ftdes the general calarriicy
in
which die whole Empire was involved, being filled
in all placeswith Slaughter, Fire, Robberies> Rapes and Violences, with what other
miferies and devaltation the licence of an unbridled Souldiery can exercife upon
a Nation. Nor were the Cities and Towns which were remote from
Couo
ex–
empt from the like calamities ; for
fo
foon as
Atahualpa
hear.d of the Imprifon..
rnent of
H11afcar,
he enrred
all
the Countries which were bordering on his Fron–
tiers with Fire and Sword, and parcicularly that which
is
called
Cannaru,
becaufe
at the b€ginning they refufed to yield him Obedience:
In
revenge for which,
fo
foon as he gained power he treated them with all the feverity im3ginable ; which
Auguftin
Carate
in the
15th
Chapter of his Book, expre!fes in thefe Words:
" Coming into die Province of
Carmaru
he aifaffinated fixty thoufand Men, being
" they had made oppofition againfi him, and putting all to Fire and Sword, he
'' laid wholly waile the Plantation of
Tumi6amba,
which is fituate in a Plain, and
" watered with three fireams ; and thence proceedin,g in his Conquell:s,
left
not
" one Man alive of all thofe who defended themfelves,
&c.
the like
Francifco Lo–
pe<:,_
report~
almoft in the fame Words. But
Peter
de Cieflt
is more large
in
his
Re–
lation, faying that the want of Men, and the abundance of Women in
his
time
b~longing
to
th~
Province of
Can~aru,
was. the canfe, that in the Wars of the
Spa–
mard1,
the Wnters thereof mentioned
Indian
Men for
Indian
Women, for to them
they gave Commands in the
Army.
And in giving the reafon for
it,
he uferh
thefe Words
in
the
44th
Chapter of his Book.
" Some
Indians
tell us faith he
' ' that by reafon
ot
the great numbers of Women which remained,'after
tha;
'
Atabalipa
had de(hoyed all the Men of this Province, whom he unhumanely
'' butchered ; and after he had routed and deilroyed
in
the Countrey of
Ambaro
t'
the Brother of
Guefcar,
called
A ntoco,
who was the Captain-General of
tha~
:: pe?ple ; and had put to death al! the iyien and
C~ildren
of that Province, coming
,,
~v1th
green
B~mghs
and Palms m their hands to implore his Mercy; yet not be-
mg moved with fuch a fpeC!acle of compaffion, he with a cruel and kvere coan–
:: tenance
to~mande~
his Captains and Souldiers to fall upon them, and flay them
all, by which a m1ferable !laughter was made of multitude of Males as we
'~
have related in
th~
thircd Part of this Hifiory ;
fo
thofe who are
no~
living
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