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BooK
IX.
Royal
Commentaries.
CH AP.
x~.
What remains furvived of the
Incan
Family.
A.
Long rime afrer
I
had fioHbed chis·
ninth
Book,
I
received Advices from
Pent
(
ou_r
of which
I
have framed this Chapter) concerning the Reliques
of the
Incan
Bloud, which
bein&
greater
than I
thoughr,
I
have added
as
pertineht
to
this Hifiory.
or in the year
1603,
they
all
joined
in
a Letter direeted to
Don
,
Melchior
Carlos
Inca,
Son of
Don .Alonfo
de
Mefa,
who lived near
Co
:c.co,
and like-
"' ife to my felf, defiring us that we would intercede
in
their behalf
with
his
Ma-
jell:y, that he would .be
ple~fed
co exempt them from Tribute,. and from
t~ofe
grievou Exaltion with
hKh they were charged m common with other
indsans
~
for performance of which,. they delegated all and every of us with full Power
4
and
Authority from them parucularly named, defcended from Cuch and fuch a King ;
and for better proof of their Lineage, they fent a lloyal Tree of their Pedigree,
dra\ n out upon a Yard and half of hireTaffity, made of the Bark of the
China
Tree, de[cending from
Manco Capac
toHuayna
Capac,
and his on
Pau/lu;
the Chief
Incas
being all curioufiy painted in their ancient Habits s upon their Heads they
wore the coloured
Twill
or W reach:> in their Ears their great Earings with Parre-
fans in their hands in the place of Sceptres, being painted from their Breafis up-
wards. The Papers were directed to me, which I addre:ffed to
Don Melchior Car-
los
Inca,
and
Don Afonfo de Mrfa,
then refiding in the Court at
P'alladolid,
becaufe
my
other affairs "'ould not permit me to aqend this caufe,
in '
hich
I
fhould o-
therwife have gladly employed both my time and life. This Letter which
as
fubfcribed by the
Incas,
was wrote by one of chem
in
a very
fair
CharaCt:er
7
the
phrafe, -or fiyle, \ as partly
Indian>
anp in part
Caftzllian,
they being all now much
conformed to the
Spanijh
Mode and
it
as d tea the
16th
of
April
1603.
I did
not think fit to infert a Copy thereof here, becaufe
it
is
too fad and tragical, re–
counting the dolefull Hate into' hich they were fallen. The AddreiS
is
penn,d
with fuch aifurapce of his Majefl:y's favour_, that (as we all belie e) whenfoe er
his
Catholick Majell:y fhall be informed, and made fenfible thereof, he
will
not
onely ea[e
tl
em
Of
their burthen , but befim · fuch
pri
ileges on them as are de-
cent and becoming the Royal
ff.
fpring of Kings.
'
The cheme vvhich they drevv of their Pedigree vvas exaccly framed, for the
Kings vvho vvere
Incas
vvere painted in their {everal
Fi~ures,
denoting on each
fide the defcendencies from them, vvich this Infcription,
Capac Ayttllu,
vvhich
is
the Royal Off-fpring, and
is
the Title in common co all, fignifying there
y,
hovv
all of them vvere derived from the
firfi:
Inca
Manco Capac;
then the Pedigree of
every King hath its particular dillinctioo vvith different
ame ; by vvhich ap–
pears, hovv every one defcended from fuch and fuch a King. The Hiue, or Pro–
geny, of
M anco Capac
they call
Chima Panaca,
from \ vhich forty
Incas
are fuccef–
fively defcended. That of
Sinchi Rocca
they call
Raurava Panaca,
from vvhence
proceeded fixty four
lnctU.
That of
Lloque Yupanqui
the third
Inca,
they call
Hahu–
aniva
Ayllu,
from whence defcended fixty three
IncM.
That of
Capac Tupanqui
they
call
Apu Mayta,
from whence are fifty fix. That of
Mayta
Capac
the
fifch
King
they call
Vfca
Ma
ta,
from whence are thirty five. That of
Inca Roca
they call
Vi~
caquitau,
from whence are fifty. That of
Yah11ar Huacac
the fevemh King, they
c~ll
Ayl!i
Panac~,
from whence are fixcy nine. The Hfue of
Inca Pachacntec,
and
his Son
Inca Tupanqui,
being joined together, are called
lnc11
Panaca,
and make up
a double number of ninety nine. The
ff-fpring defcended from
Tnpac Inca Yu–
pan~ui,
they call
Capac
Ayllu.,
\
hich fignifies no more than the Royal Progeny,
which confirms what
w~
have declared before concerning that Title; and of chis
branch
~here
are onely eighteen. The Off.fpring of
Huayna
Capac
they call
Tumi–
pampa,
m remembrance of that folemn Fefi:ival which he infiituted in honour of
the Sun, and celebrated, in chat wide and open Field, which
i
fituate
in
the Pro–
vince of
Cannarif,
\Vhere he ereeted Royal Palaces, and
tore-houfe , for fupporc
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