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Moreover, we have feen , and tried , how
fuch
a handful! of Men have
'' been able to defend themfelves againfi: fuch multitudes of
ours,
without
Food
'' Sleep, or Reil:; that
when we
imagined, they
were
wearied , faint, and
rea~
'' dy to yield, they <i;ppeared formidable, and refrdhed with new Vigour. All
'' which
being confidered,
'tis
apparent that the Hand of God is
in
it,
and that
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the
Pachacamac,
who favours
them,
doth
difcourage
and
infafe
fear into our
'' Minds;
wherefore
lee
us yield our felves, rather than bring
fo
many calami·
'' ties upon our own Heads. For my part, I am refolved to retire
within
the
" Mountains of
Anti!
,
and there fecure and defend
my
felf better , than I am
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able to doe with all my power; and there
living
quietly , and without of–
,, fence, I iliall not provoke thofe Strangers to doe Hurt and Mifchief unto
you
" for any Caufe or Reafon of mine.
In this
my
Solitude and BanHhment
it
" will
be
my
Comfort to hear that it paffeth well
with
you, and chat ye
live
" .with Liberty and Contentment under this new Government of the
Spaniards;
" wherefore
inilead of
my
lall:
Will
and Tellament, and
in
purfuance
of that
'' Command left us by my Fa her, I do conjure you to ferve and obey
thon, to
" the utmofi of your power,
fo
iliall ye be well
trea~ed
and ufed by them:
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And
fo
farewell , and remain in peace ; and now methinks I am very
forry
" to leave you in the Hands of Strangers, wi!hing with
all
my
Heart, that I
'' were able to rake you all with me.
When the
Inca
had ended his Speech, his People dropped a Floud of Tears;
with fuch Groans and Sighs, that the fulne!S of Sorrow ftopped the utterance
ofWords; nor durfi they diffuade him from this refolution, perceiving that
he
determined
fo
to
doe~
wherefore
in
the
full:
place
he
disbanded all his Souldiers,
.that were ander Command of their refpeetive
Caciques,
advifing them co repair
unto their feveral Provinces, and there patiently fubmit unto, and obey, and
ferve the
Spaniards;
but the
Inca
colketing as many as he could together of his
own Bloud, and
Family,
both Men and Women, fled
with
them into the
wild ·
Mountains of
Antu
,
and feated himfelf
at a
certain place, called
Pillcapamptt,
where he paffed his time (as we
may
irnCJgine)
in
Solitude, like a
Prince
depofed and
dif
po{fe{fed of his Sceptre , and chere
lived,
untill
he was killed
by
a certain
Spaniard,
to
whom
he had
given Proteilion,
and conferved from his
Enemies, and who mofi inhumanely fought his Life: As
we
lhall fee
in
its
due place.
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