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BooK
I.
Royal
Commentaries.
.
'
H1u1fc11r,
King of
,rhofe
Counfrl~,
nnd for
d~~gning
to r.aife
War.~~~ -
the
"
Sp1miard1,
though
this
la(!
was. ~
falfe and
malmous
fuggeffion
of
Philipzlllo,
who
" brought
the
J11diam
for
Wimeifes, making chem
to
(ay
what he pleafed;
and
(' in reoard
the
Soanjards
underll:ood not
di~
Language
1
wherepy to
crofs exa–
" mine
0
rhe
Witne!fes
all
that
PhiHpillio
alledged
pafffd
for
surrent, and good
'' Teftimony; how
foe~
er
Atahaliba
fiifly
deni~q ~c,
faymg,
~hat
fuch
an
Ace~«
fation
could
have no ground of
Reafon
m
It,
confidenng
tha~
he remai:–
" ned
under
fuch
Guards,
and
Chains,
that
it
was
impoffible
fot
him
co
make
'' an efi
ape ; wherefore he
perfilled
in
his
Deni~l,
threaming
Philipilli~,
and
" defiring the
Spaniard1
to
give
no credence
to
hrs
Words.
Afcer
Sentence
of
" Death ,, as paffed upon
him,
he
com
plained
II,lUCh
of
Francifco
Piyarro,
for,
" that having
promifed him his. Life
upon.
p.a~men~
of
the
Ranfome agreed,
'" he
afterwards
faltered
with
hitn ,
and
put
hirn
to Death.
Wherefore
ne
" earnefily intreated him
rather
to
ttanfport
rum
into
Spain,
than
to
imbrue
" his Hands in
the Bloud of
a Perfon
who
had
never
offended
him,
but
" rather enriched him , and done him good.
As
they carried
him
to
Ex~' cucion,
thofe who
attended
to
comfort
him,
advifed
him
to
deftre Bap–
'
tif
m
before
he
dyed ,
for
that
without that they threatned to btirn
him
" alive: Whereupon being baptized, he was
bound
to a Poft;
and
there
'' firangled.
His
Burial was
celebrated
according
to
the
Manner
and
Rites
of
" Chrifiians,
Pifarro
alfo
put himfelf into
mou~g,
and
performed
his
Fu–
" nerals
with
Pomp,
and
Solemnity.
~
to
thofe who were
the
caufes
of
" his Death , Divine Vengeance overtook them for
this
fin ;
fo
that
in
a
" fhorc
time afterwards they
came
all
to
unhappy
ends,
as will appear
in
the
" fequel of this
Hillary.
Thus
Atahalih~
dyed
by
a violent
Death, before
" which he
ordered
his Body to be
carried
to
fl.t!itn,
and
there buried
a-
,, mongll:
the
Kings , his
Anceftours
by
the Mother's
fide.
If
the
Baptifm
he
'
" defired was from his
heart,
moll llappy he, but
if
not , the Murthers and
" Bloud
he
was
guilty of
will
be fet
to
his
Account
in
the World
to
came.
" He
was naturally
of a
good Difpofition , wife , courageous,
frank
and
open
" hearted. He
had many
Wives, and left fome
Children:
Though he ufur-
,, ped the
Dominions of
his Brother
Huafcar,
yet
he
would
never affume
the
" purple
Wreath , or
Diadem,
untill he
was imprifoned ;
nor
would he
ever
"
[pit
upon
the
Ground , but,
for
Majefty
and
State,
(when
he had
occa-
" fion)
he
would
fpit in
the Hand of
a
principal Lady, whom
he
loved..
'" The
Jndtan1
were· in great ·admiration, when
they
heard of his untimely
" Death, which
they
efieemed
for an
accomplifhment of the Prophecy
of
''
H11a(car
,
who
being
of
the true
and
legitimate
Off-f
pring of the Sun,
waS'
'' divinely
inf
pired to
foretell
the corning of
his
fpeedy Fate. Thus
far
are
the
Words of
Lope:tJ
de
Gomar11,
Bur
to
return
now to
the
Remarks which
this
Authour makes on
the
ill
In–
terpretation of this
Philipillio,
and how he fuborned the
Indian
Witneffes tote–
fiifie
whatfoever
he defired; he
concludes
that
the fault
was chiefly
his
in
regard
that
the
Spaniard.I
wanting
Language, could
neither examine the
~at
ter,
nor
dive
into
the
Truth of
it.
Ana
hence
we
may colleet
what
falfe
a~
imperfect Notions he mufl: have rendred co the
Indians
of the
Catholidc
Faith: So
that as for
want
of a true underftanding of the
Indian
Language
Hernando
de.
Soto,
an.d
Pedro
_de!
Barco,
abandoned
Huefcar,
and expofed
his
Llf~
to. the .fubtilty
of bts Brother; fo
alfo
Atabaliba
dyed, and both tbefe powerfull
Kmgs
1~curred
the fame fate for
wane
of true
underll:anding,
and faichfull
Io–
terpretauon of all
matters.
f
f:.ah
11
alpa
ordered
his
Body to
be
ent~rred
in
!2.!:_itu,
amongll
the
Relations
oh
lShMother , rather than m
Couo,
with the Ancefiours of
his
Father. for
t
oug
the
Fune~a~
of
Kings
were
rn~ch ~ore
P.ompous
and fiately
in
Couo,
rhan the
~olemnmes
ufed
by
the
Cac1que1
m
~itu,
yet
confidering how
de–
teflable
h1
Memory
w~uld
be
to the
People
of
Co~co,
for the
Cruelties
and
Md
1
urr,hers he
had
committed
.on their
natural Kings ,
he
believed
that
his
Bo-
} "ould be
~bu
fed, and hlS A01es never
fuffered
quietly
to
repofe
in
the
Sepulchre. of his Ancefiours ;
and for
that
reafon
he
chofe
rather
to
be buried
Pp p
amongft
475
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