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Book
II.
Ro;
1
al Commentariei.
that which fhould be mofl: agreeable to his
ow~
Good-will and Pleafure, which
~he
Spaniards
would embrace with a
chear ~ull read1~ef5;
but as to the Preachers wl?ich
were intended
to '
infl:ruet his People m the D1vme Law, they had
fo
few Pnell:s
amongfr them, that as yet they could not fpare any,
~ut th~t
when. a new fupply
came, which they did
orcly expeet, they
{hould:b~
immediately d1fpeeded
u~on
this Errant ; for that rhe chief Defign of rhe Chrilhans was
to
retract
th~
Indians
from the Errours of
eir
ways, and
to
iliew unto
t~em
the
folly
of
t~eir
Super–
fiition and Idolatry. With thefe
Affu~ances.
the
Jndums_
were greatly fattsfied, and
the
z
a
delayed not immediately
to
bmd his Head with the coloured W reach;
whichCeremony was attended with great Joy and Triumph, though for want of
thofe of the Bloud Royal, and of many
CuractU
o_r Barons,
wJ:o
were cut
?ff
by
the Cruelty
of
.Atahualpa,
the folemnity was nothmg
fo
f
plend1d and
Il}~gnificea~
as
in the times of
the ancient
Incas,
when the great numbers of Nobility added
Glory to the Court; yet the young
Ga~Iancs
rejoiced to
fee
that
Fe~ival,
how
mean foever at
which
the old Men grieved, who remembred the
times
of the
Great
Hnayn~
Capac,
and
had
feen the fplendour of
his
Courr.
XII.I;
,
How the
two
Governours 11zarched
in
purfuit
of
Major
Ge-
neral
~zquiz.
I
N
our
former Difcourfe, we left
Don Pedro de A lvttrt-tdo,
and
Don Diego
de
A~
magro,
with
rheir brisk Souldiery on their march towards
Coz:,co,
where the
Governour
Dtm
Fr:ancifco
de
Pifarro
kept his Court; and as they were on
their
way,
News was brought th@m, chat the Major General
fl!!:izquiz:,
had
gathere great Forces, and was encampoo
in
the Province of
Cttnnaru,
having
with him much Gold, and Silver, and other precious Commodities;-
with
great
Flocks and
er~
ofCarrel. The Fame hereof increafed in the telling, as is ufual;
wherefore the Governours refolved to march that way
to
defeac that Army, and
deftroy the Tyrant, having underfiood from the
Indians
that there was no other
Army befides that in
all
the Empire. Though
~iz..quih
was fuong in his num–
bers, yet he was not willing,
or
very ready to engage with the
Sp1tniard1;
for
in
regard that both he, and the
Inca
Titu Atattchi,
had fent the Articles and CapitU.–
Jations to the Governour, which they had concluded and agreed
with
Francifco
de
Chavu
and his Companions, (as we have before mentioned,) ·they remained
in
ex-'
pefution
to
hear
of
a general Peace between the
Indians
and the
Spaniard!,
and
little dreamed of any Forces which were marching to dell:roy them. This fecuricyJ
and confidence was much increafed by the perfuafion of the
Inca
Titu Atauchi;
on
whofe Words uttered at the hour of his Death they much relied; for we rnuft..
know, that
this
poor
Inca
died a few days after he had difmiffed
Chav es
and
his
Companions; his end being hafined by the melancholy, he conceived for the
fad.
fate
of
his Brother
A tahualpa,
and by the ne\· s of
the
bloudy Tragedy, acted
by
!hat Traytor
Rumminavi
in
.f2J!.itu
on his Kindred, Brothers,
Captains,
and on the
innocent
feletl: Virgins.
All which
Maffacres and Villanies committed by a Vaf–
fal on the Bloud Royal, and on the Life of his own
Inca,
he efieerned co be fore–
moner~
of the.entire fubverfion of the Empire, and of the Majefiy of his
Family~
~nd
bemg
oyerwhelmed
~
ith the
fenfe thereof,
he called for
~iz:.quiz:,,,
and
his
other Captams, and told them plainly, that they ibould endeavour
to
make a Peace
;virh
the
Vir.11cochM,
a0d fhould ferve and adore them, according as- the
f;1ca
Huay–
na Capac
had by his laft Will and Tefiament ordered and commanded them· who
being the Oracle of that time, his Ordinances and Ruleswere efieemed indifpenfi..
ble,
therefore they iliould ehdeavour to pl
eafe chefJracochas
who were the Off..
fpring defcended from_their
f qther
rhe Sun,
and.ofthe
fame Lineage
with
the
In-
U
u uCA1 ;