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Com1nentaries.
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P. XXV I
I
I.
At
hu lp ,
or
Atabaliba,
pro111ifes a
great
Ranfome to
ohtain
his
Liberty
;
and
what
Endeavours
were made
for
hi111.
T
HE
obilicy
1
hich
efcaped from the flaughcer of
Caffe11111rca,
underfian–
ding that their King
as all e, rerumed
to
perform their
rvices to
him
in
Prifon ; onely a certain
mmander
called
R.Jtmmm1ivi,
ho
was
of
a diffe–
rent opinion
to
all the refi, and never affented
to
have Peace
~
ith
the
SpaniArdt,
or
to
mill
them , remained
hind
ith
the ouldiers under h·
Command ; and
being enraged
to
find his Counfels rejeered , fled
ith h· people
into
the
King–
dom of
~itu,
\
ith
intention
to
make
reparations for a War againft the
SfAJ>
mardr,
and k1ch pro ifion as were mofi conducing
to
hi
m n fufety:
Bue
his
real defign \ as
to
le~
y
a War ag: ·nCl:
AtahualpR
himfelf;
ho having been a Re–
bel to
hls
own
rince, he thought it no crime to follo
hi example. To
which
end being entred
into
the K.ingd m
f
fl.!!_iru,
he imm diately feized on
all the
OP
of
A tahualpa,
on
retence of defending and prote ing them againfi
the
paniardr ;
but in a (hort time he ki ed them all
to ether
ith
f2.!!.i/lifc11cha,
~
ho
\ as
rother to
Atahualpa
both y
ther and
t
er, called by the
Spani11rJs
Tll1fctU
·
an
01
eo er he killed
Challmchima,
and other Captains and
C11rac1U,
as
\ 'e
fhall
d d are in th
ir
due
1
.
he
Inca A rahu,dpa
being nO\
in Prifc n, and bound
ith Chains
of
Iron,
trea·
ted ' it the
paniard.r
f(
r the
rice of hi Liberty, and offered for his
Ranfome
a many
fie of
old and
ilver, a fhould cover the floor of the
Cham~
\ he ein he
as ; and ercei
Ing
that th
p11niardr
fhrugged their <boulders at
1t,
as either not believing him,
r thinking che propofal too mean (as
Gornara
re-
ort ) he immediately profer d t
fill the
o m ro a certain red line
hich
he
ad d1 a\-vn n the Wall,
f<
far a he ould reach with his hand, provided that
they neither ut one
effcl. within the other, nor battered,
r beat them
cl~fe,
ut
ne
y
hea e them ne n the oth r, untill they arofe
to
the mark and
hoe
hich he had drawn. And thu much we ha e extracred out of the
114th
Chahp–
ter of
GWJara's
HHl:ory. But n t
t
enlarge on the Particula
related
by
~
e
panifh
Hiftorian ,
t
'
1
hom \ e refer ur fdv
; we come, in fhort,
to
that
wluch
immediately concern
th
ifc
and
each of chofe
ings, the
JncM,
and the
u.tter
defiruction of them ,
hich \\a r e firfi defign and int nrion of this Treaufe;
and ch n afrer ard , in i s du p a , we fhall relate all the mofi curious and.
nb
table paffages whi h oc urr d in the Ci il
Wars
arifc n benveen the
Sparnl17'
themfelv s : But no
to
r
e .
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