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BooK
Royal
Commentaries
XII.
Of the Miracle which
God wrought
in
Tun1piz.
J
B
UT
to
retuIT?-
1;1nto
our
purpofe~
W<; fay, That _cho(e wild
B~lts b~hoJd;
ing
the
hpfhan, and the Crofs
which
he held
fil
}]1s
band,
IJI:lmep1ately
loft
their naturtl fierce,neCs, and
'JS
if
they had qeen
two
Dogs.
which
he bad bred
up,
came
a~
fawned
upon
him, and call:
d~emfoives
at
Jis
Feet.
J'etcr: de
Candia
co
fidering.
this
Miracle
which
God had wrought
for hlm,
~ook
aourage, and
{hoked
th~m
on
the
Hea.d
and Sides, laying the
CrolS
upoH
them;
whereby
thefe
enriles might underfiand, that by virtu€ of
that
~~ndard
the favage fleafi
bad 1
fl
rheir ferocity, and were made tame.
Th~
J11dian1
feeing this Wonder,
conceived that
Peter
was no mortal Man, bqt
defcend~d
from Heaven and from
the Sun, and rher fore with common confent
adon~~d
him as a Child of their God
the
un, brjnging
him into their Temple, which was
Xmed with
broad plates of
G
l ,
that
f<
he might be informed in what manner they honoured and worfbip–
ped his
ather
in
that
Countrey.
And ha ing
fhewed
hin:i
their Temple, with
the V(}{[els of GQld
and
Silver,
and
other Ornaments and Riches
which
were for the fervice of
it
they condueted
him to the Royal
Lodging1
of
his
Brothers the
InctU,
v~
horn tb,ey
efi~emed
alfo for
Children of the
Sun. Then
they lead him through all the Palace, that: he might
fee the fquare J-Ialls, the Chamb€rs,
and
Antichamber, t9gether \.Vith the furni–
ture ofGold and Silver7 they !hewed him atfo all
the
Veflds
which were for fer...
ice of the
Inca,
fuch as Jars, and
ups, and P .
ts,
a11 which, even to the Shovels
~nd
Tong of the Kitchin were all of Gold and
Silver.
Then they brought him
into the Gardens, where he faw Te , and lefter Plants, and Herbs, and wild
Beafis,
and
creeping things,
fuch a
1
e
have faid were placed
in
the Royal Gardens,
which
were all made
in
Gold and Silv r , at which the Chrifiian was as much
afionifhed, as the
Indians
were to fee a Man
fo
firange, and won erfi 11 as he ap.;
peaced unto them.
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CHAP.
433
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