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: pretence or occafion wh1tfoever, wichout exprefs Order to the contrary. The
I ndians
report, that when
Huafcar
faw that
there
was
no remedy,
but
that
he
" mufl
dye, he uttered thefe Words with great paffion.
I have
been
Lord
of
thu
"
Countrey but for a Jhort time,
hut
a1
to my
Brother
that
Traitor,
hy
whofe
Command
1
''
that
am
hu
natural L ord, am
put to death, he {hall
en1oy
hh·
Government for
a
m~h
''
fhorter time than I have done.
Wherefore when the
Indians
had heard that
Ata6a–
"
liba
was afterwards put
to
death,
(as
!hall be related in the following
Chapter)
c,
they believed
Huaftar
to have been of
tl
e
true and legitimate Progeny
~f
" che Sun, \\ho had illuminated him wich a prophetick Spirit, touching
the Fate
" of his Brother. And likewife
Huafcar
farther declared, that
~hen
hi5
Father
" gave him his lafi farewell, he enjoyned and commanded
him,
That when
a
" People, or N ation, which were white, and had beards, iliould
invade
his
Do–
,, minions, that he iliould labour to make
a
friendfbip with them, for
that
they
" , ·ere
to
become
Lords
of
tha
Kingdom.
Thus
far
are
the Words of
Altgu-
ftine
Carate.
·
F0r
my
part, v
hen
I find
the
Sptmifh
Writers to relate
things
fairly,
and
with
the
truth,
and gravity
of
Hiftory,
I am
more pleafed to
make
ufe of their words
verb11tirn,
than my own; for as
I
am an
Jndi1tn
,
and not a
Spania-,-d,
their
words
and
expreffion~
mnft
be
more
proper
than
mine;
the
which Rule
we
ilia11
always
obferve,
unlefS
it
be where the
Sp1t»ifh
Hifl:ories are defective, and
want Addi–
tions..
But
to
return unto the Relation
whicfi
Augu/Jin
de
C11rate
hath
given;
Ir
is
to
be noted,
that
be briefly touches many
partiCulars,
which
we
have more at
large
related in chi our Hifiory, as
namely,
that which concerns the
Tyranny,
the
Craft
and
Diffimulation of
Attt.hualpa,
when he proved the Mind of
Franc1$
Pif_ar·
ro,
how, and in what manner he would take the Death of
Hnafear;
for in
realiry
had the
Spaniard
been
as wary
and as fagacious
as
was
this
Indian,
and
had
prefently
replied upon him, and told him plainly, that I know, and am well
affured, that
it
was you that
killed this
Perfon,
and that therefore
I
iliall
infliet
fuch
punllh–
mem on you as your Crime deferves ; it
is
moll: certain, that he would then
have
been better advifed, and never have adventured on
this
Murcher
of his
Brother;
but
when
on the contrary, he perceived an indifferency
in
the Govemour,
who
little
fufpett:ed
fo
much evil
in
a
perfon of chat fimplicicy; he
then
took courage
and
refulution to put his wicked Intention into practice
againft
the
Jnca
his
natural
King ;
which
confummaced
all
his
ocher
cruelties; Nor did he onely
put
him
to
Death, but killed him barbarouily, cutting his Fleili into ilices,
and
thro\\
ing
them none knows where ; but the
Indians
report, and believe,
that
they ate
his
Flefh out of mere rage and malice againfi
him.
Acoff
a
faith
that they
burnt
him.
And
Garate
mentions, that the diligence and [peed, ufed
in
fending the Difpatches
for
his Dea th,
\.\ere not by the Pofis, but by
Fires
or Beacons,
which
the
Chaf
quu,
or Poftmallers, were ordered to
make
both by
night
and day, for
greater ex–
pedition, when any matter required extraordinary hafl:e.
In
like
manner
this Au–
thour touches on the Prognofiication which
Huayna Capac
had left,
concerning
the
I
vafion which the
Spaniards
were to make into thofe Countries,
and ofwhich
they \ ere to become Mafiers. He alfo farther proceeds, and tells
us, that
Her·
nando
de
Soto
and
Peter de! Barco
were not blameable for not remaining
with
HH1tf
car,
as
he deGred , and
for
not hearkening to the propofition he
had made co
them,
hich imported three times che Treafure, which
his Brother had
promifed,
becaufe in reality they did not underfiand him;
for
otherwife no doubt but
thofe
Men, \
hofe buflneG
wa
neither Conquefi, nor their Embaffy matter of War
or
Peace, but onely to fee chat the Promife made by
AtahHalpa
for
his ranfome,
were complied with, would have readily embraced the more advanrageous
Offer
of three time
the value made
by
HHafcar.
And thus thefe
t
o
Spaniard.r
excufe
and clear chemfelves from
what
was objeeted againfl: them,
touching
the
Death
of
Huafcar.
Thus
this
unhappy
Inca,
the
lafl:
of che Monarch of that Empire
fell and
~o
ded his
Day ,
having been a
Speltaror
of all thofe Cruelties and
Murchers
wbICh
his Brother had
e.
ercifed upon
his V
aifal
Servan ,
Uncles,
Brothers
and .
on~;
and as to
his
own Perfon , had been ufed with fuch Hardfhips and Seventy
~o
Prifon,
as
were
infupportable,
and vvhich
D ie o
Fernande:t,
rela tes
to
have
been
m
this
manner
:
The .