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tions to come in and be converted to the knowledge and adoration of the Sun;
and in regard they had the fame Title of
Incas,
as well
as
their King, he concei–
ved that t:he fame Obligation lay upon t?em,
~o
ferve the
Su~,-
whc:>
was.
th~
com–
mon Parent of them all , and therefore reqm.red them · to
JOlll
with him m the
fam
e workand delign; that
fo
they might reduce thofe People from their brutifh
and
befii.alcourfe of living
to
a Life more regular and rational; for that they fee–
ing
the improvements which the in!l:ruetions of his Father, th€
Inc.a,
had
made
in his own Subje&, might be inore
eafily
allured
to
forfake rheir old barbarous
Cufioms and embrace rhofe
w
hic~re
more beneficial and refined..
Hereu~to
the
CuracM
gave this ready and cbearfull AnfWei·, that they were not
onely willing to obey his Com?lands
~n t~is
particular, but even
to
enter
in~o
the fire
for
his fake; and fo end
mg
their D1fcourfe, they prefixed
a
day to begui
thei;r Journey: and accordingly the
Inca
departed with a great Retinue of his Su[):
jeill,
taking
his Journey by the way of
Coliafayu,
which
lies·
to
th~ Sou~hwar~
from
die City
Co:uo;
and
as
they travelled , they perfu(\ded the
Indians
with
fair
words
to
follow
t4eir Example, and
to
become Subjects
to
the
Inca,
and Devora–
ries
to the Sun, uniting widi them in Religion towards their God, and Allegiance
to their Prince. Thofe
Indians
which are of the Nations called
l'uchina
·and
C11,n–
(hi,
and are the next borderers, being a People very fimple and credulous,
(as in–
deed all the
Jndi~ns
are,) feeing
the
effe&s which the
Inca
h.adoperated on his own
Subje~,
which
was
the befi: argument to convince them, they immediately
fub–
mitted
co his
Government; and thus by degrees, during the whole couife of
this
Incas
Reign., without violence or force of arms, in
a
gentle and peaceable manner
he
reduced all the People,
as far as
Chuncara,
which is about twenty Leagues
in
length, with the Inhabitants of rhe parts adjacent to his Subjeetion, over
aJl
~
hich
he P.revailed
fd
far, as
co plow and cultivate their Lands, to ·lead a moral Life ac–
cording to
th~
Rules of che light of nature, and that fo1faking their Idols; and evil
cufl:oms which they P!"attifed, they fhoulcl worfhip the Sun·, and obferve thofe
Laws and Precepts which by Revelation his Father,
Manco
Capac,
had
delivered
to
them~
all which the
Jndlan.r
readily accepted and embrnced, being highly fatls–
fied with that benefit and improvement wnich the Dominion and Rule of
Sinchi.
Roca
had brought unto them, who after tbe example of
his
Father, fiudied
all
ways and means
fo
endear that People to himfel£
Some Authours report that this
King
proceeded much beyond the Countrey of
Chuncara'
and extended his Dominions over the Nations of
Canca/la,
Ruruchachi,
AjfiUu,
Afancatu,
H11ancani,
and others;
all
whi€h he gained with
fuch
genrle
treatment, that he needed not Wars, or other Arms,
tliart
perfuafions
to
invite
them ; ufing
thefe new plantations, as good Gardiners doe their Orchards , pru- .
ning
and
digging about their Trees>
in hopes of plenty
and
abundance of
Fruit.
Sinchi Roca
havlng thus lived in peace
and
guietnefs for the [pace ofmany years–
and,
as
fome will
have
it,
for
about thirty; finding himfelf at length deeaying and
aged,
he
declared that now after the labours and cares he had taken
to
reduce men
to the knowledge
of his
Father the Sun, he was now
going
to take
his
reft
and
repofe with him. His law
foll Son, by his legitimate Wife and Siller,
Mama
Cora
(or as others
will
have
it,
Mn.maOcllo,)
·called
Lloque Yupanqui,
he left to
fu~ceed
}Ji~,
as
Heir to
all
hi~ Dominion~
z
"!3efides this Prinfe he had other Sons by
his
.
Wife,
and more Children by his Kmfwomen, who were his Concubines
all
whic~
we may call. l.egitimate. . Moreover he had many Baftard Children by
W
o·
men
_of
other
Families~
all which
was
allowable according to the rule, and
faying,
that
1t
was fit
and
requifice
that
the Generation
and Family
of the
Sun iliould
be
many and
numerous,
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