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II.
Royal
Commentaries.
CH
AP. XXIV.
The Jnfurretiion of
Prince
.Nlanco Inca;
and
of
the Two
Miracles
which were
wrought in
favour
of the
Chri-
flian$,.
T
HE
Plot being thus
laid,
the
Inca
g
_a.veCommanci
that the Souldiers
OQW
leavied, apd
in
a pofiure of W
a+
f
hould
march
cow~rds
Couo,
and
tQ
the
City
of
/01
fte;es,
to
kill,
flay
and defiroy the
Sprmiard.t
there1~;
and
alfo
as
many
of'
them as
they
found fcaccered
and
difperfeq over the
Kingdo~;
for
by
the
gr~a~
kindne!S
and
peaceable
~ifpofition wb~ch
the
Jndi4n1
_had fuewn co
the~
fiithertq,
~be
Sf.1tniards
bec~me
fecure,
and
w1thout fear
or
1ealoufie
of
any
Mif–
chle~
employed themfelves
~n di~ing
Gold OQt of the
Min~s,
with
~s
much
co.n~
fidence as
if
they had
been in
rne~r
own
Coun~ey.
The
War
havUlg taken
ics
beginning from the flaughter of many
Spaniards,
that were labquring
in
divers
places,
they
marched to
(,'tµ:.cq,
wich
all
the
pr~vacy
they
~ere
able, and came thi–
th~r
on the day aP.pointed;
and
that very
mghc
followmg
they
fuddenly fell on
th~
Spaniardr
with loud
Noile
and Shouts,
being
two hundred rhoufand m num–
ber,
many
of which were armed with Bows and
Arrows,
which they' iliot with
Fire-balls into
all the
Houfes of the
Cicy,
not fparing
the
vecy Palaces of their
Kings~
nor
any other, exceptlng
onely
the
Temple
of
the Sun, and the Chambers
belonging to
it,
and
alfo the Convent of the
~leet
Virgins, and
the Shops
of
the four
Streets~
where
this
Houfe was firuate;
and
though
thefe
Houfes were de-–
fpo.iled of their Riches, and without Inhabitants, yet their Reverence and Devo..
den
towards thofe facred places, caufed them to abfiain from all fort of Sacri–
lege or violence thereunto. They alfo thought
fie
to conferve from Fire the
three great Halls
in
the Market-place, where tliey ufually celebrated their Fefri..
vals in rainy Weather, imending to maintain them for the
like
ufe again, after
they
hac\ freed themfeives from the Tyranny of
the
Spani4ra1.
0Qe of thefe Halls
w~-
fltu(\te in
h~
highefl
p~rt
of the City, adjojning to the Houfe of the fir(l
In–
ca, Mftnco Gaeac,.
as
w~ bav~
defcribed in the l\iodel of (be
C\ty:
The other Hall
ap~tain~d
to
t~e
Hou(es
of
Inca Pachacutec
,
called
C4{-ana:
The third Hall
~
belonging
tQ
the Edif\ce of
Huayn~
Capac,
which they called
Amar11c1mcha,
where now tl1e
J
efuites have their College. And moreover chey prefi rved a
handforne round
C 11f ofp,
'which was built on the Front of thefe Houfes ; all the
other .Buildings were burnt, and not
fo
much as one left fianding. To burn the
Houfe of the
.(nca
Viraoocha~
here the
Sp4niards
were quartered, the fiouteft and
mofi valiant
Indi/ln$
were cnofen, who fto{med it with great Fury, and <hooting
their Arrows at far
d.illance,
fee
it
on fire, and entirely confumed
it.
The
~eat
Hall
thereof, which
is
now the Cathf;dral, and then a Chapel, where the Chri–
fiians
faid
Mafs,
was
by
the Providence of God defended from the Fire; and
though innumerable Arrows, arrying Fire, were iliot into it, and began to burn
it, in feveral parts, yet in a miraculous manner
it
quenched of it felf, as if Water
in flouds
ad been thrown upon
it:
And this was one of the Miracles which
G?d wrought for us, to make way for the Propagation of the Gofpel, ,in that
City,
w
re certainly is now fettled the mofr devout and religious fociety o
Men that · in all the
ew W orld, both for
Spaniards
and
Indians.
Hernando Pifarro,
and
his two Brothers, with their Souldiers, which in all did
n~t
make above two hundred, which"
as
an inconfiderable number againft
fo
mighty
a Force, kept clofe in a Body; and like good Souldier were always upon
the Guard, placing their Centinels at every Avenue , and Watchm n upon the
Tower.
As
oft as the Noife of the
lndiam
allarm'd them, they Hood to th
ir
Arms,
and .bridled their Horfes, of which every night thirty fiood ready
fad
led, to make
allies on the Enemy, and
furvey
their
Force. When
they
had difcovered their
great
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