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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
VIII.
fhall
cut
thee
into
ílices, and confound thee, and all that belong to thee.
Ooft thou not remember, that •about this time, and in this ver¡ place, we
cut off the Heads of thirty
Spaniards,
and that one of our
lncar
difmounted
two men and wrefted rheir Lances from them, and had done the like
to -Gon–
fa lo Pifa~ro
1
had he noc refcued him(elf _by a more th~n ordinary, Agility and
Prowefs? Doft thóu not lmow, that we put an end to our Wars againft the
Spaniards,
and ~aifed ~he Siege of _this. Town; _and that our Prince did vol~n–
rarily refign h1s Emp1re, and ~eure rnto Bamlhruent, upon no ot~er Motive
than rhe aíl:onilbment we conce1ved-, to fee the many Miracles wh1ch the
Pa–
chacamac
wrought in favour and defence of them? Do!t thou·not know, that
during the fiege of this City, w_e killed near
800
Spaniards
in the way to
Rimac?
And were it not now a brave thmg, and
a
Gallantry fit for the Honour offuch
a
Feaíl: as this, to raife up th~H: ads ofal_l \hofe that were ílain, with the Head
of
']ohn Pif arro,
who was k1lled above,
m
yonder Fortrefs, and expof~ them to
the vie\'I
of
aU thefe Speétators
?
I
t
had been well, if thou hadft confidered
thefe particulars, ánd ma'ny others which
l
could now relate, before thou hadft
aéted fuch a' fcandalous piece of
foil
y as this. And then turning to the Deputy,
Sir, faid he, do me that
J
uftice, which the nature of this Infolence requires,
cha
e
we may noc be ~ffronted nor trampled on by our own Slaves.
T,he Oeputy
Monjaraz,,
having heard che Reafons alledged by one, and
the
other, •brdered the Head which
Cannari
carried in his hand to be taken from
him, aod the Ma(\.tle which was girt clofe, to be ftripped off, requiring ·him
on pain of a far greater punilbment, neither to difcourfe, nor tre·at of
fuch tnatters as thefe, either
in
publick or private, With this reprehenfion
given
ro
Cannari,
ali the
Incas
and
Iridians
b?th Men and Women were fully
fatisfied :, and the word
.A1ica,
Auca,
was ra1fed
1
and taken from one to
a–
nother, which refounded ovér all the Town: And then the Proceffion was
carried° forward withont interruption, according . to the accuftomary Cere–
monies. . It is faid, thac the compafs.which they take in carrying the Procef–
fion now, is ·twice as
far
as it was formerly; for now they go out from the
Great Chnrch, and recuro round by way of St,
Francis,
which is much farther,
than when they only fetched a compaís round the two place-s of
Cujipata
and
Hq1Jcaypata,
which we have often mentioned.
Bleffed
be the Divine
Maje(fy, who hatb vrmchfafed to blefs this Countrey with
thefe
holy Footfteps, and
to
enlighten the Gentiles, who wcre formerly benightcd
in thc darJ~.. of Ignórance•
.
'
e
HA P.
n.
Of a Jlrange
Ac~id.ent
which fell
0
0Ut
at
Cozco.
S
O
me years afcer theWars o~
Francifco Hernandez.
were ended, another Acci–
dent happened at
Coz.ca,wh1ch was very ftrange; the which having received
from
the
report of fo
me intelligent, and religious perfons, who underftood, that
I fqonld
fay, that
a
Narrative thereof would tend to the fervice of our Holy Mo–
tber the
Roman
Church, were pleafed to Tranfmit a Relacion thereof, thac
I
might in íert it in this our Hiftory:, and accoraingly as an obedient, tho' an
unworthy, Son of fuch a Mother, ' 1 have thought it my Duty to recouot that
macter in the manner following.
Eight or nine years bef?re the Ja~eTroubles, the Feaft ófthe Evangelift
St. Mark,
was annuallycelebrated
rn
Coz.ca,m fuch
manner as che lnhabitants ofthac City
weve able to perform. Th
e Proceffion was carried forth from the Conventof
the
B.St.Dominick__,
which as we have before rnentioned, was founded in that Houfe,
which in the times
?f
Gentilifm,_was
the T ~mple Dedicated to the Sun. From this •
Convenc the Proceílton
was
carned to a certain Hermitage,¡¡_djoiningto thoCe Hou-
11;!S
which were bd onging to
D Ofi
Cl,riftov,11
P.m/1
Inca,
Acertain Prieft called Fa-
ther