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VI.

Royal Commentaries.

with doing good; for that was the profef!ion of the

l nca1,

and was theír mechod

to overcome by Mildneís and Beneficence, rather than by Tyranny and Oppreflion;

rhe Women and Children which they found in the Mountains and Caves, after

they had fed them, and created tbern with rifpeét, :and gentle terms, they fenc

away, that

they might relate che courtefies chey had received, and perfüade

their Fathers and Husbands not to perfiíl: longer in cheir Oppofition and Rebellion

againíl: che invincible Family of che Sun,

Thefe and

füch

like Iníl:ances of kindneís l)éing frequendy repeated during the

whole courfe of che War, began to operare on che rude and fierce difpofüion of

this People, whofe hard and obdurate temper being a little foftened, it was obvi–

ous and plain to them, thac

could be no unhappy condition to fall into che

hand5 of füch, who being incited by a choufand provocations to deílroy chem, did

nót onely_ feek ways to preferve

ano

keép chetn from utter

r.uine,

bue hort

.alfo

beíl:'ow be!ilefitS;. and even alfo againít cheir own Wilt to íh,ew them meucy. TIÍey

coníideried alfo nhac the power of che

Inca

did daiiy

iG~n~afd,,

as theirs ·dkt dinili•

nilh,

and tbac Famine ánd the Sworci we1:ete,v1ls inevitable.

\iVherefote'GOlilful~

ting

with cheir

,C,miw

upon the[e difiliioult,~e.s, ,they, coi1d:h1ded and ,agrreed ro re•

ceivé the conditions offered them .by tb<:l

lf'c-a,

ratheli ,than.peri'f'ln' out of an 0bfii-

11até and perverfe humour. Upoh chis refolution rhey di[pa~th~~ t:heir ~mbaffa:.

dours

che

Inta,

confeffing the Faults and Errours the,y were-guilcy of,

fo long

oppoíin~ arid crying che Patience of the

Jnc;u,

whofe Genérofity could not be pa–

rª-lldlea by any ofhumane Race; ánd therefore'coñfelfing them

be ofche lucid

family of the Sun, they witb all humility begged to be ,reaeived into the num–

ber-oftheir Valfals; and chat both,che Prince, and che General his Unde,, would

be pleafed to intercede wich the Majefty of the Imperial

Inca

in their behalf, ~hat

ne would condefcend and vouchfafe to own and receiv<:l tbem for bis Subjeél:s.

Scarce were thefe Ambaffadours come into che prefene:e of che

Inca,

before the

~rácit Caf{awarca,

and bis Nobles refolved to go themfelves, and perfonally de–

mar'l9 Pardon for rheir Offences; and accordingly appearing before che General,

ihey prófüaced themfelves after the moíl: humble fafhion oftheir Countrey, re–

peating in fubílance the fame words which their Ambaffitdours had uttered. The

Inca Capac·Yupanqui

grlatiouíly accepced chis Addrefs, encouraging them with greac

alfurapces ofche

lncai's

Pardon and Favour; and chat he would be as kind and ten–

der of them, as he was of bis other Subieél:s; and for the oppo!.ition they had al–

ready made, and the aél:s ofHofülity committed during the time ofWar, they

íhould never more be called to remembrance, provided that they continued obe–

dient, and by their Services and Duty performed·and endeavoured to deferve

thofo benefits which the Sun had encharged unto· his Children to communicate

unto fuch who willingly and wichout compulfüm 1/ielded themfelves and their

people faithfull and Joya! Subjeél:s to the

Inca,

which beíng faid, the

Curaca

and

his followers bowed them[elves, and woríhipped, ifaying, that their Generofity

and Heroick Aétions •defervedly entitled them to an univerfal Dominion over all

others, and gave a clear evidence of their undoubted Defcent from troe Sun, and

Extra&ioR from fomething elfe than humane Race. After which they were dif.

miffed, and returned tb tbeir ow,n Habitations.

CH A P.