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Royal Commentaries.
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II.'·
CH AP.
VIII
Of the
Third King
Lloque Yup, nqui,
and
the
fignification
of his Name.
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L
Lo
'J.ueTupdnqui.
was
tbe third
King of
PtNu,
called
Lloqsu,
becaufe e
was
left–
handed, and
Tuf
"""l!'i
ferv
to denote
h·
enu
and gener
s Aetions.
The
word
Tupanqui
fignifies as
much
as an
account, or reckoning,
as
we
fay a
Man
ofAccount, which
is
a Cypher>
or Hierogly hick, in tha
lan
age,
for
a
furn of erroes, as Clemency, Piety,
Gentlene~,
& c.
all
which
ere qualities
inherent
in
chat
Pere<
n,
and ·
a
comprehenfive
as the
ord
Capa,
h.lch
con–
tains
the
iches
of ormne , and the Wealth of
errues,
inherent
in
the
mind,
which
Apellations, or rather
Titl
,
they
gave to none of heir c ·
efefl:
Lords,
hoc
to the King onely;
it
being efieemed a kind of · acrilege to at ibute fu
facred Titles to any other : for as the
Romans
gave the name of
Auguft1U
to their
Ernperolll'S,
in
a particular dill:in
ion ro all otliers;
fo
it
ould
h
e been a
di–
minution
co
their Majelly to have made
this
atliar Name
mmon
to
thcir
ubje
.
Lloque Tupanqui
having taken
a
Curvey of
his
minions, refol ed
o
extend
his
J
urifdi ion farther than the Poifeffi
n
of ·
ather , and being no
the Lord
of an Empire '
hich
had
been
efia
li
ed and radicated for the
fi
ce of eventy
years,
he thought
it
a more expedite
ay
by
force
of
Arm
to reduce chat
People>
than
by·the flo
infinuations which
argumen and per
uafio
m
de upon
them~
To
this
end having railed
an
Army ofabout
fix
or fe en rhoufand men> under
the
conduet
of
hist o Uncles, and
of ·
other
·ndred, whom he made
Captainsj
:md
mmanders over them, he
t
k hi march t ward
the
ountrey of
Ore~
f
1911,
leaving chat of
Llmafi u,
hkh his
ther had
already
c nquered,
(the
feveral
ways
to
~
hich di ide in the Province of
ChHncara)
he paifed througl'l
the diviftoo
of
Col/efu
"'
·hi h contain the great
e
of
Titic a.
The
Inca
having affed the frontiers of · mvn
minions,
entered
the
Coua.
ttey
called
Cana;
·
nd immediately difpatched Meffengers
co the natural
lohabi..
t.ants
thereof: requiring them to
1
av their befiial
crifices and
fu
erfiiti
us man–
ner, and with all readine
t
fubmit unto the Obedience and
ervice of
him
wh
as
defcended
m
the
prmg
f
the un: The
P
ple
t
Cana
deftred
time
t
inf<
rm
themfelves of
all
the particulars
hi h
the
Inc
c
rnmanded
them,
as
what were
his
Laws,
and what
ere
the
God
"hi
h he enjoined them
to
or–
fhip ;
in all
hich when
they
had been well infirueled,
they
readily confelf
ed
that heir
Reli ion
d
aw
were
better,
and more rational
than their
own,
and
t
e~
e
it
a
general confent they
y·
elded and
fu
mitted
to
them, and
fo
ent
ort
r
r ceive
their
King
with oy, and acknowledge rhemfel
his
obedient
a je
.
The
Inca
leaving
erfi
n
ith
them to in
ult
them
m
his
Idolatry,.
and
o teac
them the
ay
of
manuring and cultivating
th
ir
Land; he proceeded
foM·ard
to
that
tidn
hich
is
c lled
Ayviri:
but thefe being a
frurdy
and ftub–
botn
f<
rt of Pe ple,
ere n t to be
ought upon
y
erfuafion , and promifc ,
1
or
by
the example of ethers; but obfiinat ly perfifl:ed in a refi lu · n
to
dye
in
tbe defence of their Libertie ; " hich \ as a ne
difficulty and oppofition that
the
IncM
had never
as
yet
encountred. Thus both fid
preparing
for
ar, they
came
to
an ingagement, ' hich lafl:ed long, there being many killed both n one
fide and the ether ; and being at length
as
it were a drawn Battel, and the
ieto–
ry
doubtfull, both Armies retreated into
fc
a
places, which they had fortified after
their own manner, fallying out every day to kirmifhe and fingle
ombac. The
Pe
le
f
the
Inca
av ided fighting what they were able, defiring rather to over–
co e the
' ith reafons and erfuafions, than by force of Arms ; but the
A.Jvir·
interpreting this
backwardne~
of the
Inca
to be an effeet: of owardife, became
more ob!Hnate , and encouraged to prefs harder u on him , fo as almofi to enrer
,
his