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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
III.·
which was common amongO: the People of
Collao,
and afterwards was fpread over
all
the Dominions of the
Inc114,
That the
Indians
fallying out one day to fight,
all
the Stones they threw, and the Arrows
th~y
fhor, returned upon
themfelves
fo
that many of
c_olla
were killed and
wo~nded
by their own Weapons, which re=
tarted againll: their own Breafis; the which fabulous report we
fhall
relate
more
at
large hereafter.
\i'\Tith
chis great defiruCl:ion and mortality the
Collaon.r
being
affrighce..d, efpecially their
CuracM,
and fearing
that
greater evils would be
the ef:
feet of their obllinacy, refolved to fubrnit; ana accordingly difpofmg their Peo2le
in
feveral Squadrons, or Bands, they marched orderly
to
crave Mercy.
In the
fufr
place went the Children, next followed the Mothers, then the old Men,
and
then the Souldiery, with their Captains and Commanders, and
lall:
of all the Cap–
tains
with their
CuracM,
having their hands bound, and halters about their necks
as a
fign that they had deferved death,
for
having refified the
Children
and Farni:
ly
of the Sun; and to make their humiliation the more formal, according to the
cufiome of
Peru,
they
alked defcalced
:>
or bare-foot,
for
greater reverence tq
that
Majefiy
or Deity which they
ent
to
adore.
.
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HAP.
I
I
I.
The
Collaons
upon Surrender are received to Pardon, the
Fable
is
explained.
T
HE
feveral fquadrons prefenting themfelves before
the
Incit,
with all hurni..
licy
profirated themfelves to toe ground before
him)
and with loud accla–
mations faluted him by rhe title of the Son of
Phtxlnu;
which ceremony being per–
forme-d by the Commonalty, the
CuracM
followed next,
ho having made their
humble reverence after the fafhion of their Countrey, they begged
his
Majefiys
Pardon for the crimes and offences they had committed againft
him;
but in cafe
it
were
his
pleafure that they iliould be put
to
death, at leaft that
he
would
be
pleafed to forgive the multitudes of thofe poor Souldiers, who being feduced by
their
ill
example, had
been
perfuaded to raife Arms
againft his
Majefty; and that
he would be pleafed alfo to extend his Mercy farther
to
the Women, and to the
old Men and Children, who having no part
in
che guilt of the Rebellion,
were
obje& of
his
Compaffion, but as for them, they
-v
ere at
his
feet, ready
to
receive
the
Sentence he fhould paiS upon them
in
fatisfaCl:ion for all the ochers.
The
Inca
when he received them,
was
fitting
in
his Chair, encompaffed with
his Men of
War, and having
heard the Speech of the
Cura&tU,
commanded that
they fhould be loafed from their bonds, and the halters taken from their necks,
telling them, that he
did
not onely give them their Lives, but their Liberties alfo,
and with gentle words affured them, That he came neither to deprive them of
their Lives, nor of their Efl:ates, but to doe them good , by
teachi~
them
to
live according to the
rules
ofReafon, and the Law of Nature; and that leaving
their Idols, they fhould henceforward adore
the
Sun
for
their onely God, by
whofe gracious command he had received them to pardon, and
in
tefiimony here·
of he did again confirin to rhem their Houfes, Land and Vaffals,
~
ithout other
intent than onely to befiow favours and bleffings on them, which fhould be
pro–
ved by a long tr.alt ofexperience to them and their pofl:erity ; and
fo
much, he
f
aid,
the Sun had required
him
to communicate unto chem, and therefore now
they
might return to their own homes, where they had onely
to
take care of them–
felves, and obey him,
for
that would be for the common good and benefit
of
them all: And for the better affurance of their· Pardon, and evidence of the
Inca's
.gracious Favour, he ordered that the
Curacar,
in behalf of
all
their People,
fhould accept the
terms
of Peace on
the·
left knee ; and be ermitted
the
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