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BooK

Royal

Com1nentaries.

but two Youths onely,

who

were

School-fellows, and from their childhood

went

School

and

learned

ro r<racle

and write

Spanijh:

One of

which

was called

Cttr!o.r,

the Smn

'm£

Ptr1dl:u

lhc'a

;

belides

chefe two,

have obferved

little curio–

fi~

the

Inrlitms

to lean1

ohe

&ptmifh

Tongue,

nhat I

never

knew

any of them who

addi<fted

lhimfelf oo

trhe

ftndy

ridrer

writing

or r€ading thereof, and never exer–

cifed any.

other means

tlnaa

~hat

came

th¥·

mere

converfe,

a~d com~ori difcour~e ;

.nor

W€re

rhe~

Syahi-ard1

on the &her

fttde more

fltid1ous m

leammg

the

Indian

J.1@agu€;

wbidrmeglettwas

foiwem:

both

one and the other Nation, that thofe

Jr1dian

Boys ,

hp were ecfucatmi

with

me, did never arri

any

fart~ier

know–

ledge,

nhan

'df

commcm

and

flmiHat

~ords

<rnm when any

.~bing

was

be taught

them of

l jgh"r

matrers,

wa5,conffl:ramedl

ttl.e~prefS

them

the natural terms of

thew

o Mo

Language.

And

rheigmmrance and rttleimpro

vem€

th~

knowleclge of

t'hefe Tongues

was to

bJamecd

b~h

Nations,

aft.er

rweAty

niTI'(?

years

converfation and

acquaintanC€

~me

with

the ocltier

lna>

w lhtte

Matne

then

oaght

objeaf

unto

this

Interpreter,

for

want of skilfulnefs

the Tongues, when

firft

the

Spaniards

en–

tred into chefe Countries : Nay how little ouglit ·

Philipillio,

and the good Friar

Valverde,

to be reproached for their unskilfulnefs

thefe Tongues at the begin–

ning>-when now after

eig,ht~

years that the

Indian

Empire.bath-been-fubduecl, there

frill

want words in the

Indian

Language to exprefs the Myfieries of our Holy Faith

appears by a Catechifo1 which Friar

Diego

de Alcobafa

printed and publHhed

the year

5',

in three

Lan~ag~s, vi~.

Spanijb,

die general Language of

Co~co,

and in the Tongue peculiftly belonging to che Provinceof

Aymara;

whereby

appears, that neither of tbe two

Iafl:

Tongues had words fufficient

exprefs

Theological terms without ufing the

Spanifh,

making them terms of Art adjoyned

to the

Indian :

As for example, in the

fecond

Quefiion of the Catechifm ;

Art

thou

hapti~ed

Chriftian

the common Tranflarion hath

it,

Bati:1;;.afcha Chucanqui

Whereby it appears, that the word

Cnnqui

is the onely

Indian

word, but the word

Bati~afca

made

Indian

out of the

Spanifh.

like manner the fourth O!lefiion

is.,

Doft

tho11-k.ptiw·

the

Clwi.ftian.Doomne.?

thie-

word

JOH

k._nuw

Indian'

but the

o–

diet

two words

ate

formecd

from

the.Spaniffi.

Befides

which

nhere are imliumerab1e

other

words-in

.th~

Indian

Teagit€

decived

from

tbe

Spanifh,

wbiah

fot

bre-uity

fake

omir;1an<I

t-O~tefore-

(ball infranetf

t:hefe

f5¥

wonis' onely,

which

are

taugnt

the

Indi~iu. io

the

pr0per

Spanifh

w~11ds;

and

are

thefe

God {eftu Chrift,

Our

Lady,

an femage,

tha

Croft;,·

it'

Prieft,

Doming@;

Feaft .

Ho!J-day,

Rei~~f<rA,

the

ChUTch,

Rape»t.ance.,

to1Commttm(Jat'e-,

toil?rt!J

t<l

F~ft,

Married,

a Batchellour

jingle

ferfP"'j

.amanc

~hacl

011C~ --arho

kfeps a. W<tman5

with many other like words

rhe

dt«cnilm

A.as

though, it be true tha fome of tbefe words, and others of the

liili:e naturn,

rnigb

expre£1~d

the

hdian

Tongue,

the Name of

God,

&c.

EJ:01vfo~~er

it was

withi

great?

prucl~nce,

and religioufly derermined in charity to

toe

Souls of

there

people,

ti!)

cover rhe Myfreries of the

·!Han

Faith,

with

ChrHHan words; left thefe people, being new

c0nverted from their Genvilifm

and being taught Chrill:ianity in their own words, fhould retain the fame

fuperfii

tious

notions of God, arrd other

things

according to the primary impreffions of

me.it

Idolatry; and

tht~reforn

was

judged

nece!fary to

infuu&

them with new

word

s, that

fo, if

poffible,

~ba

very Mem0ry of their fuperfHtions might

to–

tally

abolifhed!

Having thm;.excufocd

11hilipillio,

and Friar

TZRlverde,

from h>lame for their bad in–

terpretatron; we

mufi.

add; that die interpretation he made·Gf the Friar'sSermcm

ferved rather

to obfcur€ t.han elucidate his fenfe ; for when he aame ro

exr>licat~

Generation of Mankind", and original

Adam's

fall; that inftead of

fiiy–

mg, That aU the WorJd

Mnned

Adam,

weuld

fay:,

Thar all the World hea–

pe<d.

tJ"ieir Sins upon,

AJ-am,

And

then

[peaking'

of the Divinity ofl Chrill: our

~ord,

l1efa1d, Be

was

a great·Perfoa, who died

Mankind: And' then when

would

fpeta~

of the_ itginity, Pur..ity, and San&ity

0£

our Lady the Virgin

M ary,

he faid

noclung to the purpo[e ) interpreting every rhing almofi in a contrary fenfe to the

Cath0lick Doctrine.

Coming to

tme

f6~Gnd

Part

of the Speecth delivered

Valve1~de,

made

fame

fewer errours

and~

m1Hakes iliao

the firil

becaufe that the matter concerned

more exreriour things; fueh asWar ancl Arms, which were more obvious

the

fenfe; on

~h~C£la. occa~on

~'{:1:-0lled t~e

Power and Magnanimity of the Rmpe...

rour, and

his mdufuyr

the

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