592 / 1060
Royal
Commentaries.
BooKI.
' but in regard it
is
impoffible to put the
European1
in
this !late and condition
'' or co perfuade them
to theufe of foch Arms, Cufioms, or Habit,
fo
humanely
' ' f
peaking , they
will
nev.ermake trial or effity
co
gain
iltories
w
irh fuch tools
" or infirumeots. An
d., ooe contrary, were the
Jndiani
armed as are the
Ell–
,,
rop_eans,
trained up with the fame Military Difcipline, and infiruCl:ed
in
the Art
" ofWar, both by Sea and Land, they would be more invincible than the Turks.
'' Of the Truth hereof Experience
is
the befr proof· for whenfoever the
Spaniards
'' and
Indian1
were equal in their Arms, tbe
Spaniard1
\:
ere !lain
in
great
numbers
" as for Example, in
Puno
of
M exico,
and long before that in other places;
fo;
" the truth is, when the
Spaniarth
have been laden and encumbred with their
" Arms,
and
the
lndian1
free and light, the
Spttniard1
have been ofc:en defeated
in
'' open Bartel ; as in
f2.!!:.itu,
in
Chachapuaya,
in
Chaquif aca,
in
'Tltcma,
in
Cunri,
in
''
Sa1tfa,
in
Parceu,
in
Chili,
and
other
parts. Wherefore
in
comparing the V4.•
'' lour
anG
ProwefS of the
Spani1trJ1
with that of
the
Indians,
both of
Mexico
an
"
Peru,
there can be no meafure or trial made by
the
Succefs or Conquefi ,
by
" reafon
.of
the great
inequality
in their Arms, and
above
all,
the
Invention of
" Fire-arms was more terrible
to
them than all the reft,
and
feems fomerhing
" more than what
is
humane or natural .. and in
reality
the
Vi&ories
hkh
have
'' beenobtained
in
moft parts of the new World andefpecially in
Per-a,
were won..
'' deifull Effe& of
Divine
Providence,
and
rather to
be
attributed to the Power
" of God, in favour of the Gofpel, than .co the
aiour
of the
Spaniard1.
uc
" though
~e
may compare the
Eur~pemu
and the
A_/itiatick!
together
in
the point
" of Arms, yet we cannot
_admit
of
any
Comparifon between the
Spaniards
and
" the
Indians,
as to the
Art
ofWar, in which, no -Ooubt bot the
Spaniard1
have
'' much the advantage: But
to
let
pafs this point, -and
compare
Indian.r
with
In–
"
.dian.r,
there
is
no doubt but the
!neat,
and the People of
Peru,
were much the
" better
Souldiers.;
of which they have given us fufficient Teftimonies
by
the
" many Conquefis they made over the many
~ntries
they reduced to tbeir
' ' Obedience, and
enjoyed5
nor were they fignalized for
their
Valour of late
" Years onely,
(as
fome People vainly imagine) but for ·above five or
fix
" hundred Years pall, ainongfi: which many Kings of them have been very
'' po rverfull; namely
Manco
Capac, Inca
Roca, Pi.racocha
Inca, Pachtto1ttec,
and
thofe
'' defcended from that
Line
to the great
HuA_Yna Capac,
who
was
'Emperour,
be–
" fides many other
Captains
·of the fame Blond> of whom we have
created
ac
'' large in other
places.
Thus far are the W or-Os of
Bla1
Ya/era;
after which iliort
digreffion
let us re–
turn again to our
Spltmard.r.
.)