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BooK

Ill.

Royal .

Commentaries.

cou

every fyllable of them to .the

Maje~y

of their

Inca,

who, no .doubt,

buc

wo Id remain

fenfible of therr good will, chat he would not onut to make

futable returns

the fame,

not

a higher degree, than he had towards others.

The

Cu--o tcM

were greatly pleafed,

that

their

words

iliould have the

honour to

reach the Ears of the

Inca;

and therefore e'\Tery day gave new tell:imonies of their

affeaion by their readinefs

~xecute

what Commands

f9~ver

t'he

Captains im–

pofed u 'on rhe.m. And having left in this place

fuch

irffiructions a were con–

venie

nt -for the

orderly

gov{?111ment

thereof;

they proceeded

another

Pro~ince

called

Huamampalf.Pa,

which yielded it

felf

without any contradietion or oppohtion

whatfoever. Thence the

IncM

paffed

a River which divides the two Provine-es

by-two or three ftreams, which

afterwards

a little

lower

falling

together>

make

that famous River of

Amancd.J.

One of thofe ftreams paifes thorough

Chuquii?rca,

where the Battel was fought

between

Francifco

Hernandez,

Giron,

and the Marefctial

Don Alon/o de Alvarado

;

and

fome y6ars before, on

the

very fame place, a Bcrttel was fought between

Dan Die–

Almagro,

and the faid Marefchal;

in both

which

Don Alonfa de Alvarado

was

·Overthrown,

fuall

recount

its

due

place,

God gives us

life

to arrive fo

far in

this

Hiftory. Thus the

lncaJ

continued their progrefs

reducing the

Countries

both on one

fide and

the.other of

this

River

Amancay;

which though

they

be many

number,

yet

they are all contained under the common appellation

~echua,

which abounds with

Gold

and Cattel.

HAP. XI II. ,

ri'

Many Plains and Va/lies

the Sea-coafl are reduced and

the

Sin

of Sodorny

punifhed.

.·

Uch Orders

being given

and

efiablHhed

as were requifice

for the better govern–

•

ment and adminifuation of affairs in

the

conquered

places ,

they

proc~ded

into the

defolate

Counrrey of

HHallarip11,.

which is a deGlrt much famed for the

great quantities of Gold extratted thence, and where much more remains to

fiill

digged ; and

having

croifed one fide of ·the defart for abour.

Leagues, they

defcended into thqfe Plains which run along by the Sea-coaft: All

this

Coumrey

by the Sea-coafi:i the

lndian1call1':1nca,

which

as much as to fay, the

Hot

Coun.

trey, und which name are

prehended all the Vallies which

border

on the

Sea ;

and the

Spaniard1

call

e Low

grounds

Vallies, which are watered

the

fi!eams that fall from the Mountains; for in that Countrey, that

pare

onely ha–

bitable which lyes towards the Sea; all the re!l: being

dry,

nothing

hat

dead

~nd

barren

Sands, where grows neither GrafS, nor Herb, nor any

thing

for the

1ufienance ofMankind.

On that fide, by which the

lnca.r

paifed

into thofe Plains, lyes the Vale of

cari,

which is wide, rich and well peopled, and which in times paft contained

zoo?o

lndiam;

all which with mudi willingnefs fubmitted to

the

obedience and

ferv1ce of the

Inca.

This Vale of

Hacari

led them into

other

Vales called

Pui;na

~amdta,

Carav illi,

PiEla,

!2..t!:ellca,

and others, which.run for the fpace of

League~

and South along the Coafl: of the Sea of

Zur :

All

wnich Vales

here na–

bed, are each

above

Leagues

long from the defart to

tbeS~a,

and

all

watered

ftreams on one fide

an~

die other; fome of which are fo full and plentifull,

~fte!

they

_have

fupphea

the

La ds

with fufficient moifi:ure, the

remainder

·empties

felf mto the Sea ; a?d others perhaps having refreilied the Lands for

twe or three.

Lea&ues

~om

their Source or Fountain-head; are

afterwards abforpt,.

r. drank

the

dnneJS

of the Earth. The General

Aqui Titu,

and his Cap–

tams, havmg reduced all thefe Vallies to obedience without fighting one !lroke,_

rend

red