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Royal
Commentarier.
Boo~K
llf..
.
vafion, he made an addition to
his
Empire, io the DiviGon of
Contifayu
onely
of almofr ninety Leagues
in
length, and ten or twelve
in
breadth one way
and
fifteen another way;
all
which
ttaCt
of Land was contiguous, or adjoining to
the
other parts fubjec1ed
~o
.his
power.
t:he
Inc':
re~rning
home,
wa.s
received
at
C0.t,co,
with
all
the Fefhv1cy, Joy and
Triumph
nnagmable, and met wuh Songs
and
Mufick, chanting out the prai1es of his mighty and heroick Aetions. The
Inca
having rewarded his Souldiers with Prefents agreeable to their merit, disbanded
his
Army,
it
feerning fufficient
for
the prefent time the atchievements already
made; and chat now
it
was
feafonable to give reft and repofe from
military
acti–
ons, and attend to the Execution of the Laws, and co
the
Government of
his
Kingdom, a great part of which he conftdered to
~
che care of
making
provilions
for Widows and Orphans, and ocher poor
and
d1fabled People;
in
which
good
works he pafied all the remainder of his days ;
his
Reign naving continued
for
thircy
Years,
as
is
faid, but the truth
is,
there
is
fo
little
cr~dic
to
oo
g,ivento
Re–
ports of
this
narure, where are no
Regifters,
or Letters,
that
we
kn9w
no~
What
to believe
in
the
Cafe
~
onely
this is
certain, that he
dyed
full
of
Honour,
'and Tr<r
phies, having acquired
a
great name, both
in
War and
P~e;
and
being
much
beloved
and
honoured. His Death was
1am~nted
with
fincere
grief
by
~!!,
which,
according
to
the Cufl:ome of the
Incas
1
contlllued for the
f~ce
ofa
fuU
r~.
Hi$
_Eldefr on,
Capac Tupanqui,
born of nis
Wife
MamA
C11ca,
he
left
his
Uriiverf
al
Heir of all; befides whom alfo he left other Sons, and Daughters as
weH,
Cuch
as were legitimate, as fuch as were termed
illegitimat~.
,
c
HA
p;
X.
'
.
Capac Yupanqui,
the fifth M-0narch,
reduces
many
Pro–
vinces in the
Divifion
of
Contifuyu.
T
HE
Inca> Capac
YnpttnqHi,
(d1e interpretation of whofe Name we have
al–
ready declared amongfi: the proper Names of
his
Anceftors) after the
death of
his Father, bound
his
Head with rhe coloured Wreath
in
token of
his
entraoce
into the po!f effion of his patrimonial Inheritance, and having performed the Ob–
fequies of his Fathees Interment, he immediately took a Journey through
allParcs
of his Dominions, making enquiry into the Behaviour and Lives of
hl.s
Officers,
and
in
what manner Jufiice was adminifir
ed arnongft them.
Io
this Progrefs
he
paifed t\vo years, and then returned
to
Co:
t.co,where he commanded that Sou}di..
ers
!hould be levied, and Provifions made for the following
Year,
int~oding
co
extend his Conquefis imo thofe parts of
C"ntifayu,
which lie Eafi:ward from
Coz:,cq,
where he
V\
as
infonned,
that
there were many and great Provinces and abounding
with People. For the more eafie paffage to thofe parts be ordered another
brid~e
to be
made
over the great River of
Apurimac,
at diat place which is called
H1111c11-
chaca,
below
Accha,
which was accordingly performed with all diligence,
furpaf–
{fog the former bridge
in
length and breadth, becaufe the River was wider in tliofe
parts.
In
this manner the
Inca
departed from
Cou(J,
attended with twenty thoufand
Men of War, and being come to the bridge, which
~as
about eight Leagues
from the
City,
through a rough and afperous way, three Leagues of which are a
fieep de[cent to the River, though in height
it
may not be perpendicular above
half a Leagl!e, and the aiCent on the other fide may likev ife contain about three
Leagues farther.
Having
paffed the bridge, and this difficult way, they encred into
the pleafant Conmrey of
Yanah1111ra,
hich at that time contained thirty Nati–
ons;
what
thofe Peo_ple were then, and how numerous, we have no certain ac–
cow1t, onely we
a~
aifw-ed, that the Inhabitants on that fide, called
Piti,
fo
foon
as