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BooK

IX.

.Royal

ommentaries.

wich which going towards his Mother-in-law, he rai[ed her from the ground;

:md chen faid to her,

Wefl doft thou deferve to be ca!!ed

Mamanchic,

or the common

JWothcr

(

he would have faid the Mocher of me; and thy people)

fince thou haft

6een fo provi-de¡¡t,

toforefee the

Mif

eries which were c1Tming, and to provide that remedy

11gain(f them, which rvas agreeable to

Honour, and thé Glor

my Father's Memory: For

wh·

,J.

moft heartily rhan/z thee, being af{ured,_that in ca

adgiven way to

rage,

o mfrrow repented the aéli!T,H of thiJ day.

We/1

haft thou performed the o/fice

M other to-,;,ards thy"people, in redeeming thcir lives from déftru{lion

;

in which, fince thou

'1.ft

been

[11cce_fjfull, whatfoever thou haft defired of me, /hall be accomplifhed

;

and con–

fider,

there be any thing e/fe which thou wou!dft require

me, return therefore with

happine_fj to thy people ; pardon them in my name, and offer them what othergrace andfavour

thou feeft convenient : Andfor tbe better af{urance

thü my parqon, ta/ze with thee the four

Incas,

rvho areyour Sons, and my Brothers, without other attendance than their Ówn Menial

Servants, to whom

Jhall give no other Commiffion, -than onely to fettle them_in peace under

good and wholfome Government.

Which being faid, the

Inca

retui:ned with his

whole Army, commanding them to march along the Coaíl: in pro[ecution of bis

firíl:

defign.

The

ChachapuyM

by this gratious Aét of Clerriency being convinced of their

errour, became afterwards moa loyal Subjelts to the

Inca

;

and in remembrance

and graticude for füch high and füblime generofüy, they hallowed an~ _eíl:eemed

that place Sacred where this di(courfe had paffed between the

Inca

and his Mother–

jn-law; fencing ,ic about, thac for ever_ afrer, neicher Man, nor Beaíl:,, nor yet che

Fowls of che Air, (hould

[et

chdr fooc, or cread that Sacred place : For fecurity

of which chey encomp11ífed it about wich three Walls; che

firíl:

was of Scone

rarely polillied, with all its Cornifhes ; the fecond was of rough 'and ruíl:ick

Stone, for better [ecurity of chat within ; and the chird was of Clay,

Sun-burnt

Bricks, for defence of the other two, being more expofed to tpe ' ather : Of

which fome Reliques and Ruines íl:ill remain, and might have endured ·for rna–

Ages , had not che Covetoulñefs of the New-come Gueíl:s overchro:wn chofe

Edifices in che Queíl: of Riches.

•

](

CH A P.

~IlL

Of the Gods, and Cu(ioms of the Nation of

Manta ;

of thefr

Subjer-tion

;

together with

ma'lly

other Barbarow., Nations.

V ayna Capac

having foted and prepared his Camp in order to the Conqueíl:

he, had formerly deÍtgned along the Sea-coa{t, he arrived at che Confines of ·

chat Province, which was called

Manta,

within the jurifdiétion ofwhich lyes that

Harbour, which the

Spaniards

do now cal!

Puerto

Vi~o,

or the Old Haven : che rea–

fon of which Name, we have already given, at the beginning of this Hiíl:ory.

The Nacives of chis Countrey, and all the Inhabitants for many Leagues on the

Sea-fide Northward, obferved the fame Cuíl:oms, and che fame Ido!atrous Reli–

gicrn

Worfhipping che Sea and

Fifh,

of \1/hich chere was great abundance, fer–

ving them boch for food, and for Gods: 111ey alfo adored Lions, and Tygers, and

Serpents of incredible bignefs,, and ocher creeping creacures, ,as they beíl: fanfied :

Bur above all in che \ ~alley of

MantJi,

which was the Mecropolis, or chiefplace of

ali chac Countrey; they Worfhipped an Ernerald of a prodigious bignefs, being

not rnuch lefs chao the Egg of an Oftrich.

At cheir principal Fefüvals chey expo[ed it to pnblick view,

chat che

Indians

came far and oear ro Worfhip it, and offer Sacrifices ro ir, bringing Prefents of

leífer Emeralds; che Prieíl:s and che

Cacique

M anta

telling che people, chat che

Offerings of the leífer Emeralds, which were che Children aod Otf.fpring of chis

A a a

greac