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B.ooK
l.
Royal .
Commentaries.
e
HA
P.
ViL
'
the Original of
the
Ineas; .
who
were
King).
bf
Perú~
.
T'.
Hefe PeopJeÜving and dyÍrig
in
tbat manner;
as
we
bav~
before declared,
it
· ·
.pleafed God at laíl: chat fome little light íhould .dawn ft:om the morning;
and
through che dark clouds
of
lgnorance áhd Scupidicy dart a fmall ray of rhe
Law
ofNature inca their hearcs,
thac
learni?~ forne~hing of thacrefpeél: wh!Gh
.ope,maq ought to bear unto another, they m1ght by degrees 1mprove
m
mmaht-y,
and frorri Beafis be e::onver,ced irtto Men; and made capable ofReafon andUnder-·
íl:anding_; chat
fo,
when che
fame.God,
who is
the
Sun ofJufriG:e; íhould
think
_.fir
to
illue out the ligbt 9f his Divine Rays on thofe poor ldolaters; they_might
be
found
more docible, and eaG!y difpofed to receive che principles of the
'Chrt–
füan.faith; the whkh will plaiñly appeár
in
the ·.pi;bgrefs of chis
Hifl:ofy ;
.a:nd that
.thofe, whorn che
Inw
had fubjeél:ed , and tedQced to fomé cerms of Humanity
-~d Pofüical Governrnent, were much
better ancl
eafier to reééive tbe,Evartgelicál
D.Ofhme preached unto chem, than chofe ignotanc wretches whó'lived in theü
lil<J.-–
,tural fü1pidity, and who to chis day, after che fpace of
71
Yeats, that che
Spani–
.crds
have beem Mafters 0f
Per11,
nave made nb frep or improv~ment rdwards
tNe
Doéirine of Morality, or a racional Life. And now that
we
may proceed .for–
ward, to relate
thefe
obfcure macters,
I
muíl: ac~uaint che ~eader, chat háving
confidered with my felf of che ways and mechods wheteby
I
migh_t rtioíl:
él@acly:
make
known
che beginning and
original
of
the
Jnr;a-s
·
wbo ,1/ere
the
Naém:al
Kings
of
Peru,
I
have deterrnined with my felf, that there
_is no
1-iiore
expe<ilite
;-.:ourfe, nor means hereanto, than to repeat thofe ílmies which
iri
my
yourli
l
ré–
ceived from the relation ofmy Mother, and rriy Uncles, het Brothers, and others
oí
my
1
Kindred,
touching this fubjeél:, which cenainly will be more authentick
and fatisfaétory than any acéount we can receive from other Auth0urs, and theré-
fore íhall proceed in chis manner. .
.
.
,
My
Morher, refiding at
Co:uo,
wlikh
1-VªS
her own Countrey, chofe few Kin–
ated
arid Relations of hers which furvived; a'.nd efcaped from the cruelcies a¡:¡tf
'fyrannies of
Atanhualpa,
(as íhall
be
related in ~he
Hiíl:ory
of his
Jife)
carne al–
rnofl: every we~k to make her a vifü
~
at whi:ch rheir ordinary difcourfe was
con–
cerning the Original of their Kings, che Maj~íl:y, and greacnels of rheir Ernpirn,
their
ConqueH:s,.and Policies in Governmenc, borh for War arid Peace, togechei:
with
the Laws chey infütuted für the good and b~nefit of rheir fübjefü: in íhort;
there was nothing great or profperóus amongfr them; which chey ornittéd in che·
Series of th~ir..Difcomfe.
. Froril .tbeir paíl: Happinc¡:fs they defcended ro their prefent conditiañ, and be–
wailed th€ dearh of rheir Kjngs, by whofe defüuél:ion che government fe!!, and
the
Empire was transfmed, Th<i!fe, and fuch like_d1fcourfes, the
/nr;&,
and che
Ladies ofqualiry, which we caH
Palla.,
entertáined us with at their vifüs, which
ti~ey al_ways concluded wich cears and fighsin remembr<1-nce ofcheir lqfi happineís;
fa~ir-ig, cbac fi-om Governoms rhey were
li?w
b€cOme Slaves,
&.~-
Duri~g rhefe
D1fcoúrfes, I , rhat was a Boy, 0fcen ran m and out, pleafing my felf w1th
fomé,
pieces·of die fl:ory, as Children do with che tales
of
Nurfes.
In
tihismanner days,.
4nd mómhs, ancl years paffing,
:iill-1
was come
to
fixteen or fevenfeen years ofage_. ·
.1D€ing onedayprefent with my Kindred, who were difcourfing of dieir
1
Kings ano!
Anceíl:oúrs, if cam€ into my miod tó ask .th€ rpofl: eldedy Perton amongfi thern ;
g-nd interr.upt bis Difcourfe in this manner.
ltKa,
fat4,
1,.
and
my
V ncle, how
ú
iP
pojfib!e ;
(incé you have no Writings, thqt
you
have béen ab!e
to
confcrve the memory of
tbings
paft,
·
and
of
the Orig111al
óf
óur Kings
f
I
obferve that the
Spaniards ,
and
their
-neighbowing Nations, have their Di.vine· and
Hum,ma
Hiftoriéi, where/ry
the;y
learn t-he_
ti-me rbat rheir own Kings-, aid the PrinceJ of other Countrie;, began rheir Reigns, whm and
how·}lmpincs ivcrc alrcrcd
a:.d
t-,:ansferi:td
;,
naj,
fo·
fwr't'hej ptoceed,
M
to tell m how manj
thoP.[and Jéats are
paft,
fincé God tr'eated He,.wen and,
Ear.th:·
ali which, dnd m11ch more-,
thej
it