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Com1 entaries.
and night into the Province of
Vmafayu,
fo
that by the
fpe~dinefs
of their march
the mi_ght ftlrprife the Enemy who did not xpeet the motion of
fo
great a body
in
!ers
than the fpace of a who'le month; but feeing them alreadf in the midfi of
their Countrey with a flying
Aqny,
and the grofs Body on their march towards
them, and confidering_ that it was impoffible for them
to
affi:mble
[o
fi?on together,
as
to
make a head fufticienr to ref
ill,
began t\> repent of their pertmacious anfwer;
and now laying afide the thoughts
o~W
ar, the
Curacas
with
f
peed.and hafl:e
~ffem
hled
together om all parts-, refolvmg that the onely expedient m that exigency
was to ask ·p
on, and mercy for their late offence;
fo
that one after the
od~er,
as they chanced
to
come iQ, profirated themfelves before the
Inca,
acknow
l~dgmg
him.for a rrue Child
~f
the Sun, and as fuch they fwore and vowed unto him all
Fait~fulnefs
and Obedience.
The
Inca
contrary
to
the expecracion of the
Curacas,
who ex
ett:ed
nothing
le~
than
de~rh,
or punHhment, received them with a
gratio~ Clem~ncy;
telJing
them by one of his Captains, that when he confidered their Barbarity, and that
they
were wholly ignorant of all kind of Morality, he did not admire at their re–
fufal to acce
t
his Religion, and the lenity of
his
government, being atfured that
. when
they iliall have once learned
~nd
pr?ved thofe things
hich conduce to lm–
mtfne
Lif~
they will blef5 the hour m wh1ch they were perfuaded to forfake thofe
their Idols: which were formed in the fimilitude ofBeafl:s, anti
ile
reatm es, and
capable of nothing but contempt; wherefore now he commanded them, that in
every thing they ihbuld refign themfelves with implicite
.,aith, and ntire
be–
<lience to
t
e Religion, La\
and Government which the
Inca
and hi Minifiers
fhould impofe upon them
fc
r
fu
h was the
leafore of the un his Father.
The
Curactu
with
mofr
profound humility nfivered, That they did promi[e
and
vow to acknowledge no other God than the Sun, nor no other
King
than the
inolf,
whofe Laws and Ordinances being founded on Reafon and Jufiice , wer
th
befi Rules w.hereby to make his
bje
hap y. The
Inca,
in favour and
honour co chefe
his
new Subjetts, fettled his
urc for a while in the Pro ince
of
Chirirqui.,
which is the .chief and capit
1
Seat of rh· Peo le; at ' ·llich place
informing himfelf of the fituation and pofttion of their paflura e , and of the
Cmfes and Original of the differences arum3
veen the e Pe ple and their
Neighbours, did after mature conftderation determine
here the co fines of each
• Count.iey !hould
be
limitt~d;
·and in tell:imony thereof Qufed heaps of
tones
to be thrown
UJ?
~t fu~
places, where he thought
fie,
to remain for Boun&lries
and
Marks
to dilhngu1lh the Lands of one People from the other; the which
Land-marks are to this day conferved, and continued in great
eneration,
be–
caufe they were the
fuil:
of that Nature, which had been raifed in
Peru
by order
of the
Inca.
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The
Cnracas
of both Provinces being entirely fatisfied
·i h this Sentence and
Decermin~tio~
of
t~e
Inca,
wich
p~ofound hu~iliry
kiffe his Hand
and retur–
ned
to
.therr refpechve abodes, whiHl: the
Inca
m the mean time viGted at his lei–
fure the chief places of both thefe Provinces, that
fo
he might fettle his Govern–
ment, and
e~ab~iih
bis L:iws amongfl:
t~1em,
after which not judging
it
fit
to
pro:
c~ed
farther m his Conque!l:s, though
hlS
Profperity and Succefs was greatly invi–
tmg, he returned back agam to
Co:uo,
where he entred in
this
triumphant manner
into !1is Imperial
City.
Firfl:
tl?e
CuracM
and
obles of the two late reduced
Pr~vmc~s,
who. cane
o~t
ofcunofity_to fee the Imperial Seat, carried the
Inca
on
their
~ho~
ders m a Chair of .Gold? m. t.oken of their
~ervitude
and fubjecl:ion,
the
Soa ld~ers m~rched
before m
th~ir
military order, their Captains, anti Chiefs
follo~ed i~med_"tely
after the Chair; every quadron keeping its due order, ac–
cor9:ng
~o ~ts &~gree
of precedency '. tJle
w
hidi was allotted them according r
theu
Semo~1ty,
.the
n~w Conque~s g1~mg
place to the more ancient fubjeets: and
thus
t~e tnu~ph
bemg
rank~d
m
th 1~
order , the whole City concurred to the
folern~1ty,
going
fortJ1
accordrng
to
their ufoal manner, to meet ar1d receiv their
Inca
with I\J!.ufick, ana Songs, and all Feftivity.
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