4000003870

Royal

Commentaries.

BooK

III.

means to reduce them, and though t ey fhould find fame

ob!Hnate and perti–

na iou ,

not

be prevailed \

ith

by any terms of friendly accommodation ;

yet notwithfiandiog th

they fhould not

prefen~Jy

break int open Hollilicy

with them , eing afiured , that ' hat oppofition foever the baroarou people

made,

would be more difadvanta_geous, and of

lo~

to hemfelves, than d:ieir

oluntary

fubmiffi.on

could

of benefit to the

lnca.

With

thefe

InfiruCtions,

and great

plies of Provifion , ' hich they daily gathered in their march,

they

paffed

the

fnm

Mountain

with

the more

difficulty,

ecaufe they found no

path

to guide them, travelling for the fpace of at lea

thirty Leagues, through

an un-

opled, and a moll: defolate ountrey; at length they came to the Province

Cu–

chuna

which

''as \

rell inhabited, though they lived

t in owns or Villages,

but fcattered o er the Countrey ' here every one

\~as

moll: pleafed

raife

hiS

Cottage. The atives being allarmed with the a proach of thi Army, built

ortre.G and retired into

with their Wives and Children; the place

"eak,

that it might eafily

e b en forced ; but the

l ncM

obedience

their

King., encompaffed

it '

ith their Army, and offered them conditions of Peace

and riendfhip;

all\'

hich they refufed, and for the fpace of above fifry days

per–

ftll:ed

their obll:inate Refolution ; during hich time the

InctU

had frequent op–

portunities to ha e d firoyed chem; ut the orders of their ·ng, and their

for–

mer

om and Princip es of Mercy and Gentlene!S forbad them to

make

ufe

e ad anrage hich offered. Hm foever at length amine, the ufual de–

fuoy

of the befieged

gan to rage amongfl: them

ing not had time to

make

thei ro ilion for a iege, which they could not imagine ould ha endured

o long; but being much dill:reffed by Hunger,

\~:hich

the Men and

omen

more eaftly fuffered than their Children , ' ere forced at length to ermit the

younger fort to adventure abroad, and gather the herb of the

field

for

eir fuite–

nance; many of them fled

the Enemy, hich the

rents m:>re \\

illingly

fof–

feted, than to fee chem die with unger before their faces. The

Incas

feizin

thofe that were fent abroad, gave them to eat, '\ith fome Provifton to carry

with them to their Parents, and with the fame occafio offered the

ufual

and

accufiomary terms

eace and riend(hip. The

Indiam

obfe ing this kind

treatment, and being without all expefution of uccour, refolved to com–

mit themfel es to the ercy of

eir Enemies, concluding, that

they ere

p1tifull to them at a time ' he they

od ut in o p

Gtion

to them , how

much more compaffionate \Vould they be after their fubmiffion and refignation

th ir \

ill

and Pleafure:

With

thefi hopes they left their ortreG, and furren–

dred all

the ommand of the

Incas ;

nor were they deceived

their xpefu–

tions,

for

all kind and friendly reception \

given them,

meat

being fer before

them to fatisfie

eir hunger; and then they farther informed them, that the

Inca,

whofe ather was the un, had no other defign tban of doing good to the Inhabi–

tants of the arth, and that they might be better

aff

ured hereof by their own

ex–

perience, arments, and other Prefi nts, \'ere given

the moft

principal

om–

manders of them,

the name of the

Inca;

and the common fort eing

afi:ed

leail:

their prefent hunger fatisfied, they were all difmiifed, and fent to

their

own

homes \ ith entire contentment and affured fecurity.

The Generals after

this

difi eed

Intelligence to the

Inca

all

that had

paffi

defiring that People might be fent them for planting two Colonies in that Co n–

rrey;

in regard the

foil

·as

rich and fruitfull,

\\as

capab e to

maintai

confidera le n mber of eople

and that it

uld be r quifite alfo to eftablifh

a Ga

ifon in thofe parts, both

for

fecurity of the late onquells,

alfo

for

pre–

vention of fuch

mif<

hiefs as may arife for the future. T 1e

Inca

accordingly fent

the Women with th ir Children, fufficient for two Colonies, one of which

they

planted at the foot of rhe Mountain, where the ortref5 wa built,

i\'hich

they ca

ffck1ma?

after the name of the Mountain, and the other

Moquehua ;

ICh

People are dillant five Leagues one from the other, and the P ·ovinces c n–

ferve

frill

their denomination, being ithin the

urifdittion of

o!lifuJ"·

biH1:

thefe Cor 1•11anders' ere bufied in regulating thefe People, and g vi

der for

their ioO:r ltion

Religion a d Laws, the came to und rftand that ·h fe

Indillns

' ere nocor·oufiy skilled in

e arts

oifoning, which upon

ery occalion of

ffence they adminillred to their Adverfari , die " hich \ as not

deadly as r

kill p efently, but ' ith time reduced the body to

Janguifhing and macerated

condi-