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Royal Commentaries.
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The
Effe[/s which
the
Civil Difcords
between
the two
Incan
Kings, whfJ were Brothers,
did produce.
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T
fj
E W
p.r
w
hich w~raif
ed
betweep the
two
lGngs
Hlla[c"r
and
.&t11h11alpa,
·who were
Brot:her.s, vvas the caufe
of the
coral fubv.erfion
of
that
Empire,
1
~d fac~at~
;.
~
Entrance,
and
the Cop.quell
vvhich
the
Spani~rds
made of
that
Countrey,
V:Vl)~ch
be,\og
(or
th~
rn9ft
parr
craggy and
mountamous,
and
full
of
d1i!ioik
Paffages, ,might
orhervv1fe
liave been ealily defended. But God, vvho
iri
'his
Meray
{{eligoe<l
the propagation
-0f
the Gof
pel in
thofe Countries,
vvas
_P.leafed for Ghe ,more e.afie
,iqtroduCtion
thereof, to permit thofe
feuds beivveen
.tbofe
tViiVO
Brothers.
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Acoft
4
[peaking fummarily of this
Po.int,
m the
22d.
Chapter ofh\s
6th
Book,
hath the(e Words.
''
H~fl.Yl11t
C(lpt«
vvas
fucceeded
in
Co~o
by one of
his
Sons,
" called
Tito Cnft G
11alpa
,
(he mean)
inti Clffi Gualpa)
afteivvards
he
vvas called
''
GunfcarYn"a,
and his Body burned by the Captains
of
Atahualpa)
vvho
alfo
vvas
" the Son of
Gu1JY14 C¢pac,
and raifed Arms
againft his
Btutber
in
~itu,
and
" came againft hilll vvith a .povverfull
Army.
At
that
time the Captains of
"
Atf{hu4lp1t,
n£lmely
f!.!E~qu~,
and
Chilic11&him_a
feized upon
<?uafcar l'!ca
in
the
'' City of
Coupj)
after he vvas
declared
Sovereign Lord and
Kio ,
and mdeed
he
" vvas
che lawfull Heir
and
Sacc~tfour.
Great
vvas
the Confufion and Noife
'' which this
A~ion
made through
all
parts, both of the Kingdom, and of the
" C-0urt.
And
V\
hereas
it
w~s
dieir Cufiome upon
all great
Emergencies ofAf–
,, fairs, to have recoqrfe unto Sacrifices, the People findmg themfelves
in
no ca–
,, pacity-to relieve their King, who was
in
the Hands of the Captains of
A tah11al–
"
pa,
and guarded by a powerfull Army, they therefore agreed, and, as they fay,
" by orqer of their Captive King, to offer a folemn Sacrifice to the
Viracocha
Pa–
"
chy.achachic,
(he fhould have faid
Pachac1tmac)
who is the Creatour of the
llni–
cc.
verfe, praying, that fince they were not able of tbemfelves
to
deliver their
'c
King out of Prifon, that he would be pleafed to fend fome People from Hea–
" ven , who might procure his Freedom.
Whilft
they were intent to the
fo–
cc
lemn performance of this
~acrifice,
News
~as brough~,
that a certain People
" was come by Sea, and havmg landed, had feIZed
Atahualpa,
and kept him
Pri–
" foner. And in regard that this Affair happened juft in that conjuncture of
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time, when this Sacrifice was offering, and that the People were very
few
in
" number, who had feized on
Atah11a/pa
in
Caxanr'!fa;
they gave the name of
· "
ViracochM
to the
Spaniards,
v.
hich name continueg to them unto this day, ' pon
" a belief, that they were fent from God for refcue of their King; and indeed
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the People would have been confirmed
in
this opinion, had the
Sfaniards
fol.
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lowed thofe Methods which were purfuant thereunto. And on this occafion
'' we ought ferioufly to contemplate the Wifedom of the Divine Providence,
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\
hich conduCl:ed the
Spaniards
into thofe Countries in that feafunable con–
;: junet:ure
of
~ffairs,
when
~he Divifio~
between _the two Brothers were grown
up to a C1v1l and an Inrefhne
War;
without which advantage, which begat
in
:: the
Indian:
a,belief, that the
Spaniards
were a People dropped from Heaven,
it
· had been irnpoffible for fuch a handfull of Men
to
have become Conquerours of
" that numerous People, the lofs of \vhofe
ountrey was recornpenced to them
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by the gain which Heaven was to their
ouls. Thus far are the Words of
A cofta,
with which he concludes that Chapter, wherein wi th much br
vity
he
fu~
up the War
betwe~n
the two Brothers , the Tyranny of the one, and the
Right of Succeffion whICh appertained to the other, the Irnprifonment of chem
both, an:I the fmall. I?umber o_f Men which took
Atahualpa
Prifoner, and
how grauous the D1vme Providence was to thofe poor Gentiles in their
Converfion; what N ame they gav
to
the Chriftian ,
and
the
fteem which
they