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Ill.
Ro;al Comm:entari s.
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HA
P.
VI.
The
Auaychines
yield the111folves,
and
are Gratioufly
recei–
ved to Pardon.
O
F
the
Collaons
(which
is
the common Name
of
~hefe.
people)
w
re kil!ed
·according
to
their
own account,
fix
thoufand
m
this Batt 1; the
which
flaughter was cliiefly occafio ed
by their
own unskilfulnefi, and want
of
arc
t(i)
defend rhemfelves ; when, on the other
fide,
by reafon of their
Difcipline
in War,
there
perifhed
not
above fiv
hundr~d:
Howfoever,
the
Bat~el
was
fought
ith
fuch
courage,
that
it
ended
n
unull
~le
darknefs
of the rught feparated
bc;>th
~arties,
and caufed them
to
retire to their refpechve.quarter : The day
f
ollo ·m
the
Collaons
viewing the
heaps o
cheir
dead, and feeling
the
f
mart
of
their o nds
now cold,
began
to
droop,
and
lofi all
their
former hopes
and
coura~e,
not
know–
ing
what
courfe or refolution tot ke;
for
to
overc~me,
and fight
their
~~y rhroug~
their Enemies, was
impoffible, and
to efcape
by
flight
as equally as difficult, be–
ing encompaifed on all fides
by
heir Enemies
j
and
to furrender and yield ro Mer–
cy
f
eemed dangerous, for having
alr~dy
refufed
th~fe advancageou~ Co~ ltior~s
which the
lnca
had profered ;
and
havmg provoked him to ang r
by
their
b{h–
nate refiftence, they feared, lefr they had
put
themfelve
beyond
all
ho
es
or
ex–
peetations of
pardon.
Howfoever
>
in
tl1is
perplexed
condition,
they
e braced
the
counfel
of
the mofi
aged and wifeft amongfl: them
1 '
hich \ as to yield and in–
voke the
Oemency
of the Prince; for having
heard
the report of th
t
Mercy
which
this
Inca,
after the example of
his
Ancell:ours, had ufed towards
all,
as well
towards Rebels,
as
to
t
e
obedient,
they
conceived
fome
hopes, th
t
they
alfo
might prove the
effe& of
his
narura compaffion. Wherefore
fo
foon
s
it
was
day, they attired themfelves
in
the moft enitenc
and
hu
le manner that they
were able ; the attires of their heads
·ere pu off, their feet
bare,
and no other
garment
on their bodies, than their
irts;
t
ir
aprains
and
ade1s
appeared
with
their ha
ds
bound,
and in
this
humble ofiure they proceeded with
filence
to the
Gat~,
where the
Inc"
was quartered ; n
th
re kneeling down before him,
they
faid, That they came not to ask his ardon, for hat th
y
well
kne~',
that
their offence and rebellion had pm
them befides
all ho
of o
tainin
it· nely
they were before
him
to prefent them[elves to the words of hi
ouldier ,
that
..
their Bloud might
~iate
their Rebellion, and
fi
rve for caution and example to
other Nations, how they refill:ed or difi beyed
him
wh
fe
ather was th
un.
In
anfwer whereunto the
Inca
commanded
one of
his
aptains to tell them
in
his
Name, that his
Father
the Sun had not fent him on the Earth to kill or
dell:roy the
IndianJ,
but on the contrary had commanded
him
to fuccour,
comfort and doe them good ; and that
teaching
them to reform their beO:ial
manner of life, he iliould
inll:ruCl:
them in the true Religion and W odhip of
the Sun, who
was their God
:
To whi h end, and
to
no other purpofo ( for he
flood. in
no
ne~d
of their fervice ) he travelled from
ounrrey
to Countrey, that
l1e
rrught.
publifh
thefe ;Laws a d <?rdinances of
rational
Government amongfr
them, which he had received
fr
om
h1
Father the un: .And as the pious
Off-fpring
of
~uch
a Father, he received them to pardon, though their Rebellion deferved
purufhment,
ofwhich his interceffion on their
beh:tlf
with his Father che un
had
procured a releafe ; conditionally, that for the future they iliould reform 'their
Manners, and obey the Sun, under whofe Laws and Proteetion they might expect
all bleffings of
profperity
and repofe. With this anfwer he
commanded
that~
they
fuould be cloathed, and care
taken
of the wounded and all of them
feafted
and
refreihed
with provifions ; and with
fu
h
entertain~ent
dif
miffing
them
t
their
own homes,
they
acknowledged
that
Rebellion was the caufe of al
l their mifchief
and that
Submiffion
and Obedience was
by
the Clemency of the
In.catheir
onely
remedy.
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