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Royal
Commentari es.
oo~
III.
would fubrnit and proftrate tbemfelves before
him,
and acknowledge him
tQ
be
of the true race and progeny of the un.
Though this eople was
in
no capacity of giving conditio
t
the
Inca,
yet
he
vas
pleafed
t
accept fuch a
they offered
s
being
r
olved
to
adhere to the old
Maxim
f
hi
Ancefio~
''
hich
was
rather
co onquer '
1th
love and affeClion
than
by orce ; and therefore he a!fured
rhem
on
his
word, that
in
cafe rhey
did
not
think
to adore
his
Father the
Sun,
nor yet co accept
his
ws,
he would
thea
lea e them
co
their own choice and freedom : The
hich promife he made on
an undo bted confidence, that
fo
foon
as
thofe Myfl:eri
and xcellent
tatutes
· re re ealed
t
them, they could not but accept and embrace them ;
and
that
they
ould nely be troubled, that fuch admirable beauty
f reafon arrived
fo
lace to their hearing and kno ledge.
·
pon
this
affurance and
proritlfe the
Inca
entred into
Chay111zta
where
he
as
recei ed
\1\
ith much a e and veneration, but not with that
mirth
and rejoycing
as the ufed in other
art .
at this olemnity :
or as yet
th
fe
or eople fiood
avering
tV'.
e n ho e and fear, untill the Reverend Coun ellour deputed
by
the
Inca
'
·ith the Prince
his
on and Heir, took fome pains for
fe
eral day co
declare and e pound to them the La\ s relating to their Idolarrous
eligion,
and
to
their
Secular
Government: the
hich they inculcated
fo
frequently, and
ith
fuch patience and plainnefS,
untill
at length they became capable of that
oCtrine
hidi
they uughr.
T
e
Indians
fiood gaping all th"
while ' ·c
\\ Onderfull
ac–
ten ··on, admiring
that
fuch Laws iliould be made for their honour and ad ant.age;
and then
ur£l:
out
into
Acclamations, faying, That worthy \\'ere th y to be ac–
counted Gods, and efieemed
~
r
Lords of the
Uni
erfe, ' ho
'ere able to
frame
and deli er fuch
Law
and
tatut
to Mankind; the
which
th
pro
·red
ro
re.
ceive and obey ; and that renouncing
.all
their former Id
rites and ain cu oms,
they
0
ed and
n
'Ore tO embrace
di
eligion of the
btca
;
a
d
in token
thereof
they proftrated thernfelves before the
Prine ,
who rep
ented the
erfon of
his
Father
the
un,
and the
I.ncA, CapAc T11panqtd.
.
.
H aving
thus
ielded themfelves in a folemn
rnann r,
they
fc
11
to
cing afrer
the fafhion of
their
Countrey,
fhe
ing
forne new
anc
\
hi h
they ha
pur·
pofely made for the entertainment of the
b rc1u
;
and all people habited chemfelves
in
their
befr
cloathes,
ith Tinfel and
"bbon ,
finging
Ballads made
in
honour
and praife of the un, and the
Inca.r,
and of their good
La ·
and Government
~
and
in
fine, they mad
all
the dernonftrations of lov and
e
·on imaginable.
G HAP.
XVI.
Of the many Inventions
which
the
Indi
ns
111ad~
to
pttfs
Ri–
vers, and
to tak._e Fifh.
H
Aving already
mentioned the two feveral
forts
of Bridges,
\!
hich
the
Incas
made
for
paffing Rivers ; one of which was cornpofed of
fiers, and
the
other of Rufhes and
nes.
We
fuall
now proce d to declare fome ocher
In..
ventions which the
Jndian.r
projed:ed for the fame purpo[e · for
in
regard the
la–
bour
a~d
charge of making Bridges was
fo
great,
that they were o ely made
for
convell!-enc~
of the great Roads and
t~e
King's High-ways; and that th C oun–
trey
bem~
m
oth~r
pJaces large
~d.
wide, wanted that onvenience '
ereby
the
pe~ple.
m1ght
mamtam co
mu~1cauon
one with the
ther ; '' herefor
effiry,
whk~
IS
tn~
Mother of Ingenmcy,
~ught
the
feveral comrivanc
according co
the d1fpofitton and nature of the Rivers,
as
alfo
how to
f
wim
n
the
with
fuch floats, as
fe~ed
thW prefent
occafions ;
for
they
had
not as y c attained co
the