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,
Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
ll.
How the General
Qg_izquiz
was flain
diers.
T
at
"e
may
omit nothing
material
of
all thofe
matters which
occurred
ac
that
rime
in
Peru,
it
is neceffary
for us to give an
account
of what fuccefs
befell the General
~i:tqui:t,
the Captain
Huaypallca,
and their Forces ; who be–
ing
animated and encouraged by the advantages they
had
gained over
Don Pedre
de
Alvarado
and
Aimagro
in three feveral SkirmHhes, began to prefume themfelves
able to d
ive
the
paniards
out of their Empire, and efpecially
Huaypallca
wa the
more confident, becaufe
in
the abfence of
~iz.quh
he had been the Chief Com..
mander
in
thofe lace Battels, \
1
hich
fo
vainly puffed him up
in
his own imagina·
tion , that he became prefumpmous, and fecure
in
his firength and forrune. Here–
upon thefe
t
Commanders marched towards
f2!!.itu,
ith defign to make new
Levies
of Men, and
Pro
ifions
for
a War againfi the
Spaniards
;
but they had not
made maqy days march before they were difappointed of their hopes and expec–
tations;
for
the
CuracM,
as
well
as
the common
Indians,
being affrighted
and fore–
W(lrned by the late treachery of
Rur:nminavi,
and
jealous lefi they fhould aet over
tl'le like pratlice that the others had done, refufed either to follow them co the–
w
r, or obey their Commands, which were for bringing
in
of Provifions ; for
amongfr
all
the Captains of their
Army,
there wa none of the Bloud-Royal that'
a ear
, nor
any perfon with a Title to the Kingdom of
f2.!!_itu.,
either derived
from
Atahualpa,
or
Manco Inca,
who being
the
onely
Lawfull
and Univerfal Heir
of
all
that Empire, might countenance the delign. With thefe tfifficulties, anct
in
fuaits of Provifions,
~.!!J~qui~
a.s
labouring when his Purveyors fell into
the hands of
Se6aftian
de
Bclaic4far,
by the Advi
which
his
friends the
I ndians
had
gi
en ;
for
they beio generally defirous o
a
Peace, were troubled at all
a~
and motions
which
tended to a War; and
in
regard
that
there was no Army
a–
foot againfl: the
Spaniards,
but this onely, they were defuous to fee it defeated;
fo
that upon this advice
Belalcar_ar
furprized the Foragers, and eafily defiroyed
them, and took many of them Prifoners; fuch
as
efcaped, carried the news
of
their defeat, and that the
ViracochM
were very numerous and firong ;
for
having
buc the day before found
fo
many of them
in
a body together, they "ere unde–
cei ed in the reports they had,
that
the
Spaniards,
or greacell: part
of
them, were
departed out of the Countrey with
Alvaradb
and
Almagro.
Upon
this
advice
~~qui<:.
a!fembled all his Captains to confider what would be mofi expedient
in
this ca[e, propofing ic neceffary to make a retreat for the prefent,
in
order toga–
ther
rovifions, which were greatly wanting, and then on a fudden
to
alfault the
Yiracoehru,
and profecure them umill they had entirely defiroyed and extirpate
them out of their
ounrrey; but the Captains amongll: whom
Huaypallca,
(who
ver fioce the late fucceffes, was acknowledged the
hief) were of a different
opini0n , efieeming
it
their bell: courfe to render and fubmit themfelves unto the
paniards,
t
defae Peace and Friendfhip with them ; whom to fubdue it was
a madnefs to imagine, Gnce experience had t11ewn
them to be Invincible·;
and that it was impoffible
to
get Provifion from the
Indians,
\'\ho had with–
drJwn themfelve from their obedience; and in that fiarving condition, how diffi–
cult would it be for them
to
make War upon a vittorious Army ; and which
it
were more eafie to overcome
V\
ith fair words, and kind treatment, than to ref
tft
a people_come from Heaven, which upon fubmiffion would readily entercain
riend(hiE) and Peace with them. And in regard the Prophecy foretold by the
I nca
Huayna
Capac
(namely that a {hanger
ation <hould be Lord of that Na–
tion) was now fulfilled, it \\.·as in vain to tempt the fortune of War longer. But
~iz.qui~
being
~ fio~t
Man,. and
~
Souldier, .declared
again~ t~is mann~r.
of fub–
miffion, upbraiding his Sould1ers
with
co ard1fe and pufilla01m1ty of fpJJ1t ; a?d
with