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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
I.
Maiden , called
Pillc11
Ci
fa
11.fta,
C?ade
a
eech
to
the
new
Guefis, and faid,
0
J.ouw~o
ttre om
of
Capa
In
lf~CO h~,
tafte of thefe
thing~
which we lning
.JoH,
which
will
be a reat
contentnunt
and
fawfaflson to m.
The
pamards
admired
much
to fee fu h
iviliry and
ourtefte in a people
w
horn they reputed barbarous and
co
Ii
e in all
befl:ialicy
and filthine£5;
herefore, that they might not fee:n to
contemn or flight chat
C
urte!ie ' hich they
fo fr
ely offered, tney ate
fometh.ing
of
what they had fet before them, and then
faid
it wa fufficient, with
which cbe
Jndums
\\ere
highly fa · fied.
'
CH A P. XX.
The Speech of the Amha/fadour, and the Anfwer of the
Inca.
S
llence
being now
made,
Hernando
Pifarro
deftred
Hernando de
oto
to
fi
eak
and
deliver his
effage , for that more time ' as not t
be lofl:, and
like~
ife
that
he \ ould be as ihort and fuccin
as he could, chat
fo
they might return
again that night, and lodge \ ith their
ompani ns, for that it was not prudence
to confide much
in
thofe People, who were Infidels, and ''ho perhaps might
fhew them fuch
ourtefie the more eafily to enfnare and betray them:
omen
Hernando de
Soro
rifing up, made
his
everence a
fter the
Caftilian
manner
>
and
uncovering
his
Head, fate down again, and
then
fa.id..
" Mofi ferene
Inca,
ou are to underfiand, that in th· World there are mo
" fupreme Prine , one
i
the
pe, \
ho is High Priefi, and
fit
in
rhe
Place
" and Tribunal of God, the other i
m erour of the
Romans ,
ailed
Charlu
" the 5th. King of
pam,
who having underfiood the blind Ignorance
in
\\'hich
" the
atives of thefe your
ingdoms lh
1
e, defpifmg the true God,
i
ho
is
cc
the Maker of Heaven and
rth, befrm ing the
oriliip due unto
him
'' upon
his
Creatures, and upon the De
il
himfelf, \ ho deceive and delude
" diem, ha e fent their
overnour and
a rain General
D on Fr ncifto Pifttrro,
cc
ith h"
mpanions, and ome Priefis,
h are the
inifler of
God~
co
·' teach your Highnefs, and y ur ubje
, the
i
ine Truth, and hi
holy
Law;
'' and for chis Reafon
it · ,
that they have undertaken rhi long Journey co your
"
unrrey ; where having re eiv d effeet of your
oumy from your
liberal
'' Hand, they entr d yellerday into
af{amarca,
and thi day the have fent us to
" your Highne , " ith
ffer of Peace and
one d
' hich
{hall
endure for ever
' between
, that fo receiving us under your aith and
r teCl:ion, we may
cc
have leave to preach our
L~n
, and that tour u
je&
ma hear and underiland
" the Gofpel, which
will
be of great Honour, as alfo of Ben fit and
alvation
~
to your ouls.
And on this occalion
BLM
Valera,
ho \
1
a a ery religiou
and zealous Man
for the alvation of
tho[e
poor Gentil , doth very mudi lam nt that thofe im-
ortant Words of
Hernando
de
Soto
<hould
fall
to the ground
f(
r ''ant of a good
Interpreter, learned in both
anguage , and one who '''a afte ed with
fuch
in–
ward
harity, as might have moved hi Heart with efficacy to have explicated
the force
f
thofe Word .
uc, ala , it
\'Vas
the m· fortune of
tl
at
rnpire,
and
of th
firfi Conquerours to have no better an Interpreter than thi
Philip,
who
was fuch an ignorant ot, as not
to
be able
to
render the fenfe either oa
one fide, or the other, but rather gave things to be underfi:ood
in
a different
m~
..
ner, and vith that barbarity as fpoiled the H nour and
ignity of the Ernbauy,
of
which
both the
Inca
and
tanders·by were
fc
nftble, finding that the Wordshof
t
e