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R~yal
C01nmentarie1.
BooK
II.
The. Pri~ce ~anco /nca .receiv~d
the Advices of his
Brorher, and the Addreifes
of
jlg_r<:..qu_i:t,
\\1th much
JOY,
b~m~ rnuc~
plea ed
.to
fi~d ~hat
thofe who were
his
late
Enemies,
were now reconctled and JOyned with him m
his
juft
claim and
title
co the Empire. And herein he was the more fatisfied to underftand that
the
Spaniards
concurred in
the
like intentions, having on all occafions openly declared
their inclination c
right
and jufiice. Upon
which prefumption the
Inc11,
adven-
r __ur d to a ply himfelf
to
the
Spaniartfr
ro demand Peace and Friendfhip, and in a
iimple and fincere manner
to require
the Government and
Dominion over
his
1
ingd
m, according
to
the
Capitulations
which
his
Brother
Titu Atauchi
had
fent
co
him. And here we fhall leave him for a
bile
in
his
preparations for fuch
ao
Addre~,
untill
its
due time and place, and return
to
our
FrancifcoPicarro,
who
be–
ing
better advifed by
the late damage
which
his
people
had fufiained
from
Titn
At11Jtehi,
did now
march-with more
caution,
and Jefs fecurity
than
before;
fo
that
they met-no confiderable Encounters, unleCs a few flying Skirmifhes near rhe
City
of
Coz:.c<»
from whence
the
Inhabitants
fallied
out
to
defend
a Pafs; but making
,
a
feeble
and
poor
re[illenco,
they
haftily fled to
their
Houfes, from whence
carry–
ing
away their
Wives and Children,
and what Stock
and
Goods they
could
col–
lett,
they
retired
into the
Mountains,
being greatly
affrighted
with
the
reports
of
what had
focceeded
in
Caf{amarca,
for
that
Countrey having been
fubjeet
to
the
-power
of
Atahualpa,
made
Come
refifience, being defirous, if
poflible, to
revenge
the Death
of
their Prince.
Gomara
treating
of
chis
particular paffage,
hath
thefe
words :
" The next day
the
Spaniards
entred
into
Couo
\:\
ithout,any oppofition
' and
pre[ently they fell
at~
ork,
fome co unrip the
Gold
and Silver
from
th~
" Walls of the Temple, others to
dig
up
the Jewels
and Veffe]s
of Plate,
which
" were
buried
with
the Dead, others
pillaged and rifled
the Idols
1
and
facked the
'' Houfes,
and the
Fortrefa, where frill
great
quantities
of Gold
and Silver
were
'' conferved,
which had been
there ama!Ied and
laid
up by
Guayna Capac.
Io
" fhorr,
there was
mo ~e
Gold
and
Silver
found
in
this Cicy,
and
in
the pares
a–
" bout it,
than
what was produced
at
Caxamalca,
by
the ranfome of
AtabaH6a :
'' Hmvfoever,
the particular !hare
belonging to
every individual
perfon
did
not
" amount
unto fo
much
as the
former Dividend, by reafon
that
the number
w-as
" greater which was
to
partake thereof· nor was the fecond
fame
fo
loud
as the
'' firfi, which publifhed
the Triumph of Riches with
tbe lmprifonment of a
" King. A
certain
Spaniard
entering into a
Vault, found
there
an
entire Sepul–
,, chre of Silver,
fo
thick
and maffy, that
it
was worth fifty thoufand pieces of
'' Eight ;
others
had
the
fortune
co
find Cuch
as were of
le!S
value, for it
was
the
'' cufiome
of rich Men
of thofe
Countries
to be
buried in
this
manner up
and
" dov.
n
the
Fields , and
there to
be laid
in
State
like fame Idol
:
Nor were the
''
Spaniartls
contented
with
this
prize, but.
frill
chirfiing Jfcer greater Riches, were
" hot
in the purCuit
of the
Treafores of
Huayna
Capac,
and of others hidden
by
" the ancient Kings of
Couo,
but neither
then,
nor
afterwards, were
any
of
thofe
" Treafuries known ; howfoever they
tortured
and vexed
the
poor
Indians
with fe–
'' vere
ufage and cruelties,
to
tbew
and
difcover to them
the rich Sepulchres.
Thus far
are
the Words
of
Gomara,
extraeted
verhatim
from
the 124th
Chapter
of his Book.
Carate
in
the
8th
Chapter of
his
fecond Book,
f
peaking
of forne
Spaniards,
who \ ent in
purfuit of
an
I ndjan
Captain,
faith
as
follows
:
"
And
'' not
being
able to meet with
him, they
returned to
Couo,
where
they
found a
" greater prize
both
of Gold and Silver,
than that
in
Caxamalca;
all which the
'' Governour divided
amongfl: hi people. Thus far are the Words
of
C11rate.
And now I fuppofe by there Authorities,
it
hath
been
f
uffidemly
proved,
that
the Riches
which
the
Spaniards
found in
Co
:t.co,
were
greater
than thofe
~en
in
Caf{amarca
;
and
to
acquit my felf in
the
tr
uthof
what I r€late, I am pleafed to
cite, or quote,
the
Spanijh
Hifl:oriansy
and to
f
pecifie their Names, left I
fhould
feem like the Magpy€,
to
deck
my
felf
with borrowed feathers.
But to
return
now
to
thofe Treafures, which,
as
Gomara
mentioHs, were dif–
covered
by the
Spaniards
under-ground
both
in
C<R-Co,
and
in
the
parts
adjacent :
If
is certain,
that
for the [pace
of feven
or
eight
years afcer the
Spaniards
had re·
mained in quiet
poffeffion of that Empire, feveral Treafures were di!Covered
both
within
and without
the
City
7
and particularly withi,n
the
Precin& of
that
Palace
called
Amurucancha,
(
which
upon the
divifion made, fell to
the lot
of
An
4
tonio Altamirano)
and v
here
it
happened that a Horfe
galloping
round
a Court-
yard