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BooK

III.

Royal

Commentaries.

defcended

the Sea Coaft, which the

Spaniards

call the

La11ne1,

and paífed the

firíl:

Valley, which in tho[e pares hach the narne of

Nanafca,

which fignifies dole–

full, or diúnal; what rnight be the occaíion of chis_Epicher, is not certain, bue

i_¡;

believed chat

mighr be from fome great puniíhment, or calarnity, which

had h:ippened there; che

Spaniard1

call it

Lanafca, ·

where alío the

Inca

was recei-

ved wichout oppoíicion, and obeyed wichout conditions; che like fubmiffion was

yielded by che Inhabitants ·of ali the V:illies from

Nanafca

Areq11epa,

wlúch líes

by the Sea-coaft for the fpace of above-eighty Leagues in length, and fourceen or

fifceen in breadch: the chief Valleys are

Hacari

and

Camata,

rnncaining twency

choufand Inhabicanrs; chere are ocher Vallies of lefs coníideration, whicn are

Ati-

ca,

Vcunna, Atiq11ipa

and

fk_dlca,

ali which yielded ready Obedience, both be–

cau[e they neither had force to refüt, being a poor.naked People, and becau[e

every

Valley had ics particular Lord, and fome of them two or three, amongíl:

,vhom were perpecual

Qy_anels

and Diífentions.

And 11nce we are now rrearíng of chofe places, it will not feem an improper

Di~reilion, though perhaps out of its due order, if we íhould recoum a remar–

kaole paífage, which happened in the Valley of

Hacari,

fome time after rhat che

Spaniari'ÍI.

were MaHers of ic; The occaÍton was this: Two

Curaca.,

who had

nor as yet been baptized~ were gre:uly at variance cogerher, about che Limits

, or Bounds of their Jurifdiétions, which increa[ed

hign, that they ofren endea–

Voured to decide che Diffetence in Battel; to prevem wlüch, the

Spanijh

Gover~

nours fent a Commíilioner to them, with power to determine, and put a final

end to their Difpuces by a friendly and amicáble Compofüre : The

udge, or

Umpire, having heard both Ítdes, allotted unto eadi fuch Boundaries as he

thought

did of right belong unto chem, refpeétively obliging them to rnaintain

Peace and Friendlhip together ; which though rhey promi[ed to doe, one of them

who thought himfelf injured and aggrieved,by this DiviÍton, concealed his paf.

fion and intention to Revenge under che [pecious appearance ofFriendfhip: for

the

Day

being come, when rhe Solemnities of the Peace were to pafs, they both

are and drank cogether; the Banquec being ended, the offende::I

Curaca

aro[e

and

taking

tWo

Cups

bis hand, filled with Liquour, as if he intended to d;ink

Health to che cc;,nfirmation of their Friendfhip, ( as che cuíl:ome am_ongíl: che

Jn–

dians

is)

he offered one of the Cups

which was prepared with poifon, to his

Enerny, referving che other, which was wholfome, for himfelf; but che other

Curacá

obferving ,fome change in che Councenance of him who made him che

offer, and a Diífatisfaétion

the terms he received; refufed che Cup which he

reached to him, defüing rather to have che other which he referved for himfelf.

The

Curac.t,

not to feem cowardly, or to offer that which be refufed himfelf, was

eaftly perfüªded to change bis hands, and with that reached to his Enemy the

wholforne Cap, and withomt difficulty dr-ank up che Poifon himfelf; of which

dying in a few hours after, he gave a füfficient evidence, that che Draughc was

ilot 1nore deadly than the Poifon of his own Rage

and

Matice,

wich

which he

welled and buríl:.