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Of the
great tumult
and
diflurbance which
happened
hetween
the
Indians
and
the
Spaniards.
T
HE
J"ca
obferviog the inability of the Interpreter, endeavoured
to afftft
him
in
expreffmg his Anfwer
~
Firfi, by uttering
his
Speech
by
fuort peri–
ods, caufing
him
to
exprefS one
thing,
before he proceeded to another ;
and,
fe.
condly, he fpake
in
the Language
of
ChincafuJH,
which
rhe Interpreter
underfiood
hetter than the Language of
Couo
;
by which means
Philippiltio
did
better expre{S
the fen[e
and
intention of the
Inca,
though
he
did
it
in
a mofi barbarous
manner.
So
foon as
the
Inca
had ended his difcourfe, the Keepers of
the
fl..!!ip™
were
com–
manded
to
note the
fenfe
and
particulars
of
all
thffigs delivered by their Knots,
which were the
onely cypher they had whereby
to
conferve their traditions
tofu–
rure Ages.
By
chis
time the
Spani.ardJ
growing weary of
this
long and tedious difcourfe,
be–
gan
to quit their places, and come
up
clofe to
the
lndian.r,
to
fight with
them,
and
rob
them
of
their Jewels of Gold, and Silver, and pretious Stones, with
which
they
had
chat day decked
rbemfelves, that
in
a
folemn manner
they
might appear
in
their finery, to receive the Embaffy which was
fent
them from the
Univerfal
Monarch of the
W
odd
~
Some
s
paniards
alfo
climbed
a little Tower ro
plunder an
Idol,
hich they had adorned with Plates ofGold, and Silver, and precious Stones;
the which outrage caufed great noife and tumult amongft the
Indians;
which
when
the
J~ca
perceived, he cried out
with
a loud voice to
his
people, that they
iliould
neither
nurt,
nor offend the
Spaniards,
though
they
iliould take or
kill
their
King
him(el£ On
which paffitge
BlM
17r~lera
takes
occafion to
fay,
That
as
God by the
prefence
of
Qleen
Efther
mollified the Spirit of King
Ahafnerm;
fo
by means
of
the Holy
Crofs,
which the good
Friar
Palverde
held in his hand,
he
charmed
the
Spirit of (his Chole.rick
and
Warlike Prince
Atahualpa,
not onely co a
degree
of
gentlenefs, and quiet temper, but even to an entire fubmHiion, and humble
refig..
nation:
che
which we ought to attribute to
a
Miracle of the divine Mercy;
for
God
defigning
to reduce this people to a knowledge of the true Do6trine
of the
Holy
Gofpel, \ as
pleafed by this,
and
other
miraculous
infiances, which
we
fhall
find fcattered in divers places of this Hillory, to operate on the Spirits of this bar·
barous
people. Some Writers blame Friar
Valverde-
for
this diforder,
faying,
t~t
he
ma
ed
the
Spaniards
thereunto, and encouraged them
to
Jay hands on thei.r
Wea
pans,
requiring them
to
doe-jufiice, and rake revenge
for
the affront which
the
King had
given them, by throwing the Book on the ground which the Friar had
put into
hi
hand ; and fome
fay
this could not be the caufe, for that neither
the
Friar delivered a Book
into
the hands of the King, nor did he receive
it:
But
rbe
truth of all was this,
Friar
Valverde
ftartled at a fudden out-cry of the
IndiJtns,
arofe
up on a fudden from the
feac
on which he fate, difcourfing with the King;
and
running in hafie, his Book, and the Crofs which he held in his hand, fell on the
ground; and then catching them up again, he ran with fpeed, crying
to
his Com–
panions, that they fhould offer no
hurt
to
the
Indians
for that
At11,hualpa
~as
kind
and well affeEted towards them , and that he obferved by his Anfwers, and de–
mands his good intentions,
to
fatisfie them in all matters according to his
ca~a
city ; but the noife and out-cry of the people was fuch,
chat
the voice of the Fnar
was not heard amongfi them. And here
it
is
to
be noted, that it is not
crue
what fome Hifl:orians report of
Atahualpa,
that he fhould
fay, "
You he/ieve
that
"
Chrift
is God,
and that he died:
I
adore
the
S11n
and the
Moon,
which are immortal:
''
And
l11ho
taught
.)lJU,
that
yonr God
created the Heaven and the Earth.?
To
w~i~h
"
Valverde
maae anf\;r;;er,
~is
Book__
hath taught it to
iu:
Then the
King
cook
it
10
'' his hand, and opening the Leaves, Jaid it
to
his
Ear ;
and not hearing
it
fpe~k
''
w
him he threw it upon che ground. Upon whi h, they
fay,
that
the
Fi~1ar
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