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as
they
heard
nf
he appioach
of
the
Jnc11,
cameIfouth
«1>
nmt
hillb
~~ ~n an~
W
omon.
0
hl
"'ind
yotIDg,
and ,
with
$ongs
~d ~ufic~.,, A.f~hubat1~
,_
~
d
all
run~
that1llight
tefilfie
their doy,
i:h~
yeceived him fbr .
their
King~ ~OV\
1
lng
ali
Obeaieoce
aµd
Vaffalag~
to
ruS3Perfon.
Tbe
ltK~ o~ cln~ ~~r
fide
reeeLved.
~
lth-a
gratio.w;
EyB
beftowiog on them
fuch
Vefts,
oriGmuneJilts, as
wcre.1a
'the
tnode
and
fa.thion
of .his
Coart; Of
rhis
~ncd tr~attnent
thtt
Piti
fent
adv~~.
to
their Neighbours
being of the fame Nanon with them of
Yanl(h1tllr4,.
.gwmg
them ro
underfta~d
that the
Inca
had taken up
his
aboad
~mongfi: ~hem,
and
that
they
had
received him for their Lord and
Mafl~r, a~cor~mg
to
which _example of
the
Piti,
the
CuracM
of
divers
Nations
came
likew1fe m, and
fubm1tced
rhem-
felves.
d
d
r..
cl
·d
"-
The
Inca
received them
all
with his accufiome ·goo ne1s, an
as
an
ev1
ence
of
his
greater favour, he
wa~ d~firous
to
fh~w
himfelf to
~is
People, and vilic ·
their Countrey , which contalned about
twenty
Leagues m
le~gch
:·
and about
fifceen
in
breadth.
From
this Province
otranahuara,
he paifed mto another, cal–
led
Aymara
between which two there
is
a fpace of ground wholly defolate and
unpeo~led ~?f ~boqt
fifteen Lelgues over. On the
_or~er
fide
of
th~s
defart
1
a great
number
of
eople were gathered
into a
body
wuhm a certain
mclofed ground
calleci
Mlitot{nf
4,
to fioE_ tf\e paffage of the
brctt,
and en?"ance
into
their
<0?u.nrrey,
which contains thirty Leagues
in
length , and fifteen
m
breadth , and
1s
nch m
Mines ofGold Silver and Lead, and abounas
in
Cattle and People, and conlill:ed
of at leafl:
eighty
Nations, before they were reduced
to
~he
Obedience ofthe
Inca.
At the Foot of this Inclofure the
Inca
commanded
his
Army
to
encamp,
fo
as
to cue the Enemy off from all fupplies, who being barbarous, and ignorant of
War.- had Glifpeopled all he Countrey,
and
gathered them into one body, not
<:onlidering cliat
by dus means they were
cooped
up on
all
lides, and hemmed
in,
· as
it
wene. in a Cage. The
Jnc4
continued feveral
days
in chis manner, with an
llllwil~nefs
to
~tcack th~m,
inviting
chem co
fubmiffion with all
fair
terms and
gropofafa'Df
P~ace,
and offering no other
wiolence
co
th~m
than co
hinder
r~m
frtnm pnwifions and fufteil4nce :, that fo
what
Reafon
and
Argument could not
e;ffett, Fllmine and Hunger might enforce.
In this refolute condition the
Indians
romained for the
f
pace of a whole month, untill being confirained by the neceffi..
tie5
of
famine,
they fent Meffengers
fo
the
Inca,
giving him
to
underfl:and, rhat
th~y
were ready to receive him for their King, and adore him, as the true
Off–
fprins
of
the
Sun, conditionally, that he, on the Faith and Word of his Divine
Progeny,
prornif€", that
fo
foon as they fhall have
yielded
themfelves to him., he
will
conquer and fublett undet his Imperial Command the neighbouring Province
0£
Vmafup,
which being a 'numerous and warlike People living upon Rapine
~nd
SP<?il,
did
make
ft~quent
incurfions to
the
very doors of their Houfes, eating
up
tlierr
provifions and pallures, and committing many other mifchiefs
and
outrages ;
for which injuries
they had
oftem
made War upon them, which ended in bland
and–
c;onfufion on the one fide and the other; and when at length Peace was made,
and
terms
fil
accommodation agreed on, they fuddenly broke out again into new vio–
l~m~es,
not confidering the
Faith and Prornifes they had
given : Wherefore
if he
J]leafed to avenge them
~f
thefe Enemies,
and
re~rain
their
_incu!fions
on them for .
the future, they would yield, and acknowledge him for their Prmce and Lord.
To
this
!?roJ?ofal the
Inca
made anfiver by one of
his
Captains, That the defign
of
his
co~111ng
mto thofe
parts
pad
no other
aim
than to relieve the oppreffed,
and
redaun the barbarous Nations from that beflial manner of living, whereto
they were accull:omed, and that he might inll:ruct: them in the Laws of Reafon
and
I_vtorality,
wbic~
he
had received
from
his
Father the Sun ; but
as
to the
a–
yengmg
them of their Enemies for the inju{Hce and injuries they had done them,
it
~as
the
Offic~
_and
Duty
of
the
Inca
to
perfonn;
howfoever it became not
them
t?
unpofe
condition~
on
the
Inca,
who was their
Lotd
and Sovereign,
and was to
give rather
~ban ~ece1ve
terms'· and.
t~erefqre _rha~
they iliould
refer
all their
grie...
-yan~es
to
his
W,
1fedorn,
who
mhermng
the Jullice of
the
Sun,. his
Father , was
mclinable of himfelf to redrefs their Oppreffions and reduce their Enemies to
terms
ofReafon and
Juil:ice.
'
~ith
rhis
Anfa
~r
the Amba{fadours returned; and the
day
following
all
th ~
fa
lndimu
th~t
were
reu:~d wit~in t~~
inclofure c_o rhe number of
above
twelve
thou–
nd fighung
men_, with their.
\Y
1ves
and
Children to
about
thirty
thoufand (oul\,
~e
forth, and m
feveral
D1vifions.
prefented
themfelves
on their knees before
the