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Royal

Commentaries.

OOK

VIII.

Bilhoprick of

Cardona,

where I then Iived, and where he related to me many

of thofe things which are here recounted.

·After

long a time he obtained

leave from the Supream Council of the

lndies

to return to

Pene,

and had three

years given him to diípatclt h~s Buline~s there, an~ re~it bis effeéh_ into

Spain,

where he was af~erwa_rds ~bhge_d to hve and fin(lh h1s days. Bemg on

bis

departure, he wnh h1s W1fe whom he had marned at

Madrid

paffed by the

place where

lived, and defired me to hel,p him to fome Furniture for bis

Houfe,

fot

that he returned to bis own Country poor, and in want ·of ali

things:

prefently save him all the Linnen

had,

with

fome pieces of Taf.

faty, whic~

had made up afcer the Souldiers falhion, intending ' thcm

for

Colour.s, or Enfigns for a Foot Company.

The year befare

had fenE him to

the Court a very good Horfe, which he defired of me; which _together with the

other things

gave him might be worth

500

Ducats ; which he took

kindly

that he faid to me,

Hrother truft me h

erein, a

nti when 1 come to

own Country

will fond yo11

2000

pieces of Eight in

p11.yl'

flent thereof.

l. do not doubt bu¡ he

would have been as good as bis word, but

ill Fortune croffi:d me, fou three

days after he arrived at

Pay¡a

(which is juft on the Frontiers of

Per-u)

he died

meerly by an excefs of joy ne conceived to fee hhnfclf again in his own Coun•

- try.

Pardon me, Reader, thisDigreffion which l have prefumed to make

foJe..

ly out of refpea, and affeétion to my School-fellow. All the others died in their

Banifhment,_not one~f them.returning agáin to his own Country.

A P. · XVIII.

How

ali the

Incas

the

Blood

Royal, anti thofe .of them

bo~n

Spaniíh

Fathers aml

Indian

Mothers r,ere ha–

nifbed.

The Death and End

them.:ali.

the

Sentence

gi:J:en againft

the

Prin~e, with his Anfwer

~hereuntp,

and hor,

received Holy

Baptifm.

LL thofe

lndi.ans

who were Males of the Royal Line, and neareft of

thé

Blood

to the number ofthitty fix perfons, were all bl\nilhed to the

City

L-Os

Reyes

;

and there commanded to relide, and not to fi:ir from thence

without fpecial Order,obtained from the Government: With them alfo the

two Sons and a Oaughter <!Jf that poor Prince were fent, the eldeft of which was

not above ten year\ of age.

The

Incas

being come to

Rimac,

otherwife cal–

led the City oí

Los Reyes,

the Archbilhop thereof, named

Don Geronimo·Loayfa

out oí compaffion to them, took the little Girl home, with intent to educate;

or breed her up.

bis own Family. The others looking on themfelves as

Exiles .driven out of their Country and Houfes, and put befides their na–

tural ways of living, took it

much to Heart, and bewail'd their conditi–

on witb fuch grief, that in little more than the fpace of two years thirty

five of them died, together with the two Sons. But what we may believe

contributed likewífe to their greater Mortality, was the heat aod moifi:ure of

the C

limate upon the Sea~Coaíl: whcrein they lived : far as we have faid in our

Fir.ít

Part of this Hiftory, That the Air of the Plains is

differeot from

that

hhe •Mountains, that thofe who have been bred in, and accuftomed to the

Hilly

Countries, cannot endure the lower Airs, which are made as ic were Pe–

ftilential to them

the cxceillve heats-aad moiftures of the Sea. Tbis was

the end of thefe poor

Incas;

and as to the three which furvived, 0Qe of which

was my School-fellow, named

Don Carlos,

the Son of

Don ChriftO'Ua/

PllNiH,

of whom we have : formerly made mention, the Lords of the

Chancery,

taking pity oí lhJir condition , gave them Iiberty

to return to their

Houfes, and to more agreeable

Ai.r;

but-they were

far fpenr, and confumed

beyond