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Royal
Commentaries.
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BooK
I.
the which was
fo
ill
expref!ed, that the
Indians
~elieved
he was Superioar
to
all
as well
in Heaven
as
on
Earth:
Many
other
thin~s
he declared,
which
were
a~
ill
underfiood as
rhofe
preceding,
which
for
brevity
fake we pa{S by and
ornir
And
here
BIM
7/alera
rakes
notic.e of a mo!! certain and obfervable
truth ;
that
t~
this
day,
though the
Indian
Children
whic~
are
bred up
and
educated
with our
Youth,
fo
that
Spamfb
is become almoft
t~err
natural Language,. or at leafi as eafie
to them
as
the
Indian;
and are very well mfuuaed and
catech1fed
in
the Princi–
ples and Myfieries
of the
ChrHl:ian
Faith, yet
dare not
prefume to explicate the
DoCl:rines,.of our Religion to the
Indians
in
their
own Language, for
fear
lefi:
the
barrenne!S of their
Tongue fbould
not be able to reach the
height
of our
myfieri~
ous
Faith,
and
thereby
adminifier .occafion to
the~
of
many
~rronrs
and mill:akes.
So
that
if
in
rhefe late
days, wherem
~en
ai:e both
~lln~lted.
m our Leaming, and
praCl:ifed in both
Languages ,
fuch
~ues
do anf
e
i~ thi~
matter ; what
in~
congruities, what nonfenfe,
and
what
ChimerM
may
we
1magme,
were at
firfr
ut–
tered,
when
Men endeavoured
to
exprelS fublime Myfieries with
a
bablingand
an
imperfeet:
Tongue
?
,.
CH A .
P.
x ·x1v.
'
.
The
Anfwer
which
Atahualpa
gave to the Friar'
i
Speech.
I
W
Hen
A ttJthHalpa
underfl:ood the
conclufion of
the
Speech,
which
was,
That
by
fair
means , or foul, he was to renounce and
quit
his
Kingdoms,
and to remain a Tributary Prince, for fo was the command
of the PoIJe,
and
the
pleafure
of the Emperour; and
when they threatned him
with
fire and
fword, as
appeared by the
figns
they made,
by
brandifhing
their
Arms ; and that it
feemed
as
if
nothing was prepared but ruine and defirultion for himfelf
and his
Army,
like chat
of
Pharaoh,
he
became
extremely fad and melancholy,
believing
that
thofe
whom they
called
ViracochtU
(for
they
conceived
that
the
Spaniards
were
Gods)
were turned from them, and become their
mortal Enemies ; and
therewith he
-
fetched a deep
figh,
and cried
Atac,
which
is
as
much as Oh
moil:
unhappy
and
miferable;
which wofull groan was an
evidence
of
the
farrow
he
conceived
ac
the conclufion of
th~
Friar's
Sermon : But
at
length recolleeting
hirnfelf,
he
anfwered
in
the manner
following.
Though you have de'11ied me all the requefts I made to )'our Mej{enger.r, yet it
wo11id
he
a
great fatiefa£lion
to rm,
to
grant
me the favour one!J to exprefl your [elves
by
a 1)U)re
skj/fJJlt
and faithf1tll Interpreter, hecaufe the Mllnners and political Lives
of
Men
are hetter
under–
ftood by difcourfe, than by jigns
or
actions
5
for thoHgh you
may
be Men endued
with
extra–
ordi.nt1.ryve-l'tuu and
abilities, yet unlefsyou mak! them appettr to
me
by
word; and
difcosrrfa,
I fha!tnever
be made capable to underftand them
6y
outward jign.r andgejlnreJ :
For
if
there
he a
nece.lfity
of
a
common Language between Nations, who dejire commerce and converfarion
together, much more
u
it
requijite between people
fa
remote
tU
we are
;
for indeed to
treat
/;y
Interpreters ignorant
of
both Tongue.r,
u
likf
the inarticulate found of
dumeftick Animals;
·
and f1tch, 0 Man
of
God, [emu thu difco1r1'fe tho1t haft made me
by
thu Interpreter.
Ami
now,
fo
far
tU
I underftand, methinkf the difcourfe feem.r
much
different to whatyottr
Am-:
baf{adcur.r late!J propounded, for
they
treated of nothing_ but Peace and Friendjhip,
of
Alls-–
ance
and Confangninity
;
b11t
now
all
the Word1
of
thu
Indian
are nothing but
Menaces of
Wars, and Death, and
Fire,
and
Sword, with the Extirpation and Banijhment
of
the
Incas,
and their
Proge~;
and
that
I
mu
ft
voluntarily, or
hy
force, remutnce
a
right to
my
King~,
and become Trib11tary to another.
From whence I collcCf one
of
thcfe two things; that mher
you and
J'OHr
Prince are Tyrant.r, and
rove
aboHt
to
plunder the World, and
to
difpoffefl
0-
ther.r of their l(ingdom.r, kjUing and fpoiling thofe who
owe
ou nothing, and have never
of–
feredyou
inJllY.J
or violence;
or otherwifa
.JOH
are
the
Mini.fter
.t
of
God (called
~Y
m
Pacha)·
camac