490 / 1060
Royal
Commentarie1.
BooK
I.
had all
p~ri(hed
with cold, had they
not
been relieved by rl-ie
Indians
and coo
dueled co
ome
warm
ca\·es, "hereof there are many
in
that
paffage,
·which
\.\er~
he\ n out
of
che Rocks for reception
of
Travellers.
The
paniard.r
nor having been acquainted with the ruggednefs of the
ways.,
had
not prm ided themfeh e with hoes for
~heir
Horfe, nor miths to nail them.
£
r \\iant of which their
Horfes had fufiered
much ,
had not
the
Indians
melced
{( me of their Gold and
ilver, and therewith forged Shoes
of
Gold, infiead
of
Iron,
fo
the u{e of
their
Horfes.
Gqmara
at the end of
the 114th
Chapter of
hi
Bo
k,
mentions this pa!fage in
chefe \
ords ;
For
want
of
Iron,
f
tn11e
/hod their
H<rt"fe1
with Silver, and
f
ome
with
Gold.
After many Cuch difficulties and hardiliips as
rhefe,
Hernando
Pifarro
and
Ch1tU–
cuchima
anived in
Ca.f{amarca;
where
Challc11cbimlf.
being about
to
enter into the
lace where che
Inca
renained, and having firll put off his Shoes, and taken fome–
thing on his fhoulders in token of fervirude, he wich much tendernefs burfi out
into rears
G
Coon
as
he faw
his
King
r.
_Chains, and Jaden
with
Iron,
attributing
his Imprifonment by the
Spaniards
ro
nis
own defauk and abfence. But the
lnc
4
rep ied, that h· ab[ence
'''as
not to be blamed, nor could
any
other
caufe be af..
figne hereof, than onely the Decree of rhe
Pachacam11c,
of which many Prophe–
cies
and
Prognofticarions
had for many
years
pafl: preceded, foretelling their
Inva–
firn by new and unknown
arions, who fhould dellroy their Religion, and fub–
vert their EmpiJ e ; as his Father
Huayna Capac
had foretold at the hour of
his
Death. And for better affurance of the truth hereof, fo foon as he was
taken
te
fem to
Couo
ro
confult with
his
Father
the
Sun
and
ith the ocher Oracles'
' hich refolved
~Ll:ions
and.Demands in his
Kingdom,
and particularly
wich
th~
prating Idol in the Valley of
Rimac
,
which notwithftanding its
former
readineiS
of fpeech was become filent; and what was mofi to be admired, was, that the
hidden Oracle in the Temple
of
Pachacamac,
which had undertaken on
all occafi–
ons to
anfaer
the
doubts
and quefiions
which
were made
concerning
the fucceffes
of
Kings
and great Men, was alfo become dumb, and made no anfivers. And
though it was told to that Oracle that their
Inca
was
held in
Chains, and was con–
jured
by
them to advife
a
remedy for
his
releafe, he became deaf
and filent : And
moreover the Priefi:s, and fuch as
formerly entertained
free
and
familiar
difcour·
fes with the
other
Oracles,
reported, that they were
not
able
to
obtain
an aofwer,
or
[crew
out the lea!l: word
from
them ; for which caufe
Atllh!Ul/pa
faid, that he
was greatly troubled and difi:ralted in
his
thoughts, fearing, lefi his Father the Sun
had abfolutely abandoned him; for otherwife he would not have tied up rhe
mouths of his Idols on a
fudden, '
hich he had fotmerly
cau[ed
to
be
free
and
familiar with devout perfons, not fuffering rhem to
advi[e,
and yield them
com·
fort
in their ultimate difuefs: All which were certain and unevitable fignals of
their
approaching mifery, and
alienation
of their Empire. Thefe and
fuch
lad
apprehenfions
Atahualpa
uttered with extreme grief of heart
to
his General
Chalk11~
chima
in the Prifon ' here he was, beginning then
to
feel
the
pangs of
confcience
for his Treafon and Rebellion againft
Huafcar;
in re\ ard of which, and of
all
other the
Tyranni~
and
Cruelties
he had committed againfi: him and his
family,
he confeffed himfelf to be now jufrly punifbed with the like troubles and angollh
in his
0\\
n Soul.
CH AP.