430 / 1060
410
.
.
,
Royal
Conimentaries.
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IX.
" fay, that there re fifteen Women in hat Countrey to one Man. Thus far are
the Words of
Pete-~
de Ciefa
; \
·ith \ hich \ ·e
i11all
end this unpleafing Scory
of
the Cruelties of
Atahualpa
for the prefent, and reaffume the particulars again
in
their proper place . And
nm
occafionally upon thefe Cruelties, I was put in
mind fa
tory
of
Don Frttnlifco,
the on of
Atahtn!J'a,
who dyed Come Months
before I went
f(
r
p.1in,
\
hich is this : The ay afrer his Death, very early in
the Iv1 ming before his Burial, thofe few
Incas,
who were remaining, made a vilit
tO
my Mother ; and amongfi the refl: came the Old
Inca,
whom I have formerly
mentioned ; who infl:ead of condoling and faying,
1
am
forr
for J'o11r
lofl,
becau[e
the party deccafed wttJ
m
MotherJ Brothen Son;
he faid
to
my
Mother,
1
am glad that
the Great
Pachacarnac,
or Mak.!r of the Vniver(e, hath conferved you unto this
day
in
which ou have feen the end and deftruflion of all your Enemies
;
adding many orher
'ex–
preffi ns full of joy and contentment on this occafion : But I not well underfian–
ding the meaningof this Drollery,
repli~d
to him, and faid,
Vncle,
wby
jhould
1J1e
njoice for
1
he Death of
Don Francifco
fince he wa.1 our Kinfman 1111d Acquaintance
?
\Vich \vhich turning tm ards m€
witf1
great anger
and paffioo, and
caking the
end
of his l\1antle, and biting
it
with his
Teeth,
as the
manner
is
amongfl: the
Jndia111
\vhen they are in a rage, retorted upon me, and faid,
what,
.JOlf
have
a
mind to
he;
Kinfman to an
Auca,
the Son of another
Auca
(which figniftes a Tyr-ant and Traytour)
who deftroyed our
Empire,
t:!nd
kjlled oHr
Inca;
who exhaufted our Bloud, and e:r:tirpated
0:1r Famil:J; who committed
fo
many OHtrages unnatural to our Kindred, unk.pow,z
t1nd ah–
horred
by
our Forefather.1 : Give me but thu dead Rafeal into my hand, andyou
jba//
foe
me
eat
him
raw
without Pepper
or
Salt.
Oh
that Traytor hi1 Father
WtU
farely no Son
efHu–
ayna
Capac
our
Inca,
b1tt
fame
mum
Baftard of an
Indian
of
Qgiru,
with whom hii
Mo–
ther plaid the Whore,
and
abufed our King;
for
if
he had been an
Inca,
he could
never
have
been guilty
of
thofa horrid Cruelties and Abominations he committed, nor could foch exemc–
hle dejigns have entred into his imagination,
j
for confidering t..hat
it
1VM
a fundamental Doc–
trine of our
Anceftou.rsnever to doe hHrt or damttge unto
tt71.J,
no not Jo much
tU
to their
Ene–
mieJ : What Monfter then
of
iniquity m11ft thiJ Man be, w-ho violating aO rhe Rnle.1
of
HH...
manity, hath imbrued hi1 hand.1 in the blond of all
his
Relations
.<
Then
do
not fay,
that
this
perfon can be deftended from our Lineage, whofe difPofition
WM
unnatural, and dijf
erent
to
the
temper and conftitution of
our
ForefatherJ.
Confider what an mjuryyou doe
to
them,
to
1-U,
nay
to your
felf,
in
ftyling
m
the J(infmen
of a
moft
c-01eL Tyrant, who from the degree
of
Kings reduced thofe ferv
of
HJ,
who efcaped his Olltrageom hands to the condition
of
/ervit11de
~nd
flaver
.
All chi and mu h
more
this
Inca
uttered
ith
Cuch
rage, moved
by
a
fenlible remembrance of thofe deceltable cruelties ' hich
Atahualpa
had commic–
red, chat the fatisfaetion they received by the Death of
Don Francifco
was changed
into
w
e and lamentation . And indeed tbis
Franci(co,
during the time of his Life,
was
[o
fc nGble of the c
me
on hatred of Mankind towards him, which avoided
his c n
rfati n flying from him, as
from
the Pefl:ilence, that
he
ith
fhame
ab ..
fconded himfi If, and li
1
ed
retired within his
°''
n door;;: the like alfo did his n o
ill:ers, wh hearing all places refound ' ith
Auca.,
\\
hich roperly lignifies Cruel-
ies, Tyrannie ,
and
isfortunes, \Vere filled \\'ith
fhame
and onfufion.
HAP.