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Hatunpacaffa
reduced, and the
Cac-yaviri
conquered.
B
U
t
returning now
to
M~yta
.Capac,
we
find
him
bulled
in
reducing
the
Pro~
vince of
Hatunpacajfa;
which is a Countrey co the left
h~nd
of that
fiream~
by
which the Lake empties
it
felf;
and in
perform~nce
of
th~
work, he ufed
no
other tneans or force, than Doetrine and
Infiru~1on~
teachmg them
th~
yvay
to
cultivate
and
manure their Lands, and
the
art
to
hve
m
lm~ane
and
poht~cal. f~
ciecy;
which
method, as fome report, .che
Inca1
onely ufed
m
t~e
firft begmnmgs
of
their Monarchy, which,
fo
Coon
as
it
was
grown.
up
a~d ~ort1£ied,
they turned
to open violence and cornpulfion. But whether tlus fub1eCtion were
effe~ed
by
orie way or the other,
it
matters
n?~
much here, nor
ho~
many
~fays J~urney
every
Kiflg
proe:eeded ; -for fuch repeuuons would be both tedious
~d
1mpertment;
and therefore we iball onely recount
in
fhort what every
Inca
gained, and what
additions he made
to
his Empire. This
Inca
therefore proceeding
in
his
Con–
guefls, came
at
length
to
that People which is called
Cac-yaviri,
who
were r]:ie
~n
fiabitants of
a
great number of
Villages,
fpread
all
over that Countrey without
order or rule; over every one of which fome petty Lord prefided. Thefe having
received the Allarm, t;hat the
Inca
was coming to conquer and fubdue them,
flocked all together
to
a
little
hill,
which had been raifed by labour in that plain,
being about a quarter of a League
high,
and picked at the
toR
ik~
a
Sugar loa£
This
Hill,
whofe beauty was the more remarkable,
for
being the onely
l6fty
and
eminent fituation
in
thofe
Plains,
was efieemed facred by the
Indians,
and the
place appointed whereon to adore their Gods, and offer Sacrifice: Hereunto they·
fled for fuccour, and hoping that their God would make
this
place their Sanetuary,
to defend them from their Enemies, they built upon it
a
dry Wall of Stone, and
laid
a turf of
Earth over it ; the ?\Jen laboured in the fione-work, and
for
better
difpatch the Women cut and brought the turfs; and
to
this Forrrefs, which
rhey
had furnifhed
with
great
fiore of Provifions, Men, \Vomen and Children ,
in
great numbers reforted.
The
Inca,
according to
his
cufiome, fent them
his
Summons to furrender,
par...
ticularly ailuring them, that
he
came not
to
take away their Lives, or their Efiates,
hut
to confer upon them all thofe benefits, which the Sun, his Father, had com–
manded him to perform towards the
Indians;
and therefore that they iliould
be
cautious how they wanted of paying due ref
pelt
towards his Chi1:iren, who were,
by the help and affifie,nce of the Sun, (who was the God which they adored,)
fuong and invincible
in
battel : This, or fuch like; Meffage the
Inca
fent
often
to thefe
I.ndians,
but they pedifled obi inate in their refufals; faying, that they
li–
ved well already, and had no need of his Infiruttions
to
teach them
to
live bet–
ter; and
as
to his Father, the Sun, they did not much value him, .
for
that they
had Gods of their own, one of which was that fortified
Hill,
which favoured
them, and would preferve them, and that the
lncM
might be pleafed to depart
in
Peace,
and
teach others, who were willing
to
receive their Infirultions,. for that
· they
had no need of their Doctrine. The
Inca,
who had no great mind
to-
over·
come them by fight, but rather to
win
them with
fair
words
or at
worfi to
compell
them
by Famine, divided his Army into four parts;
an'd
therewith be..
fieged
the
Hill.
,
Th~fe
People of
Colla
continued many days
in
this Refolution not to furrender,
expecbng when
t~e
Enemy would aifault their Fortrefs; which when
they
found;
t~at
the
.Inc1t
d~cline~,
they attributed this backwardnefs
to
weaknefs, or cowar–
d1fe;
~v1th
which bemg encouraged, they made divers
Salli€s
from their Fort ;
in
all.whtch,. though the Souldiers of
the
Inca,
according to the command of
their
J?nnce, did ratner
d~fen
l themfelves,
~han
feek to offend them, yet thefe People,
~k~
brute
Beafis,
.w1th?ut order, or wit, throwing themfelves
on
the weapQns of
1e1r Enemy,
penfhed
m
great
numbers; the
which
gave
ocoafion
to
that
rep9rt
-
l
-
whkh
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