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being a valiant People, much f urpajfin1, ours in al! points of Excellency:
Liktwi.feyou are
to obferve, that in me the ·number
of
twelve Kings is compfeted; :·and 1farther makt k._nown
toyou, that in a few Years ajtf.r my departure out
of
this Lije, that this ncw Nation wi/L
invade you, and then wi/L be accomplif!?ed that which our Father 'the Sun hath revealed, that
they Jhall fecomeyour Lords and M ajl-ers,
·
wherefore
I
encharge you to ferve them
M
Mm,
far they
Íi4
every thing have the advantage ofyou; their Law
ú
better than yours, their
Arms dnd military Difcipline more warlikt, and more invincible than yours; and
la.ft!J, J
leave my Peace with you, for
I
am fummoned .by -my Father the Sun to rejl- and repofe with
him.
.
Pedro de Ciefa
in the 44th Chapter1bf his Book, ·wuches upan this Prophecy ·
which
Hua;na Capac
had delivered, concerning the Invafion of che
Spaniards,
and
that after his Reign the Empire would be tranílaced
tó
a íl:ranger people, which
was like thofe that failed in d1e Ship. AlLwhkh,the
l,nca
noldihi
s,people
úi
7),,_
mipamJa,
which is a Councrey ·t1ot
far
from
f2.gitu-,
where, ir' is·
fa.id, che news
was
fir(l:
brought_of the
Spaniards,
who were .the,Difcoverei:s
ot
Peru.Francifao
Lope:t de Gomar;1,
in che
11
s-th Cbap. of his·Book,. relating cine Difcour[e
whid1
·~mervened betw~n
Huafcar
and
Hernandode Soto,
(
who was afterwards Governour
of
tt1e
Florida,)
aNd
Pedr1J•del,Jiam,
faith, tbac when they two travelled alone
from
Cajfamarca
to
Coz_co,
(as we fhall relace in ics due place,)
Huafcar
being then
a
Prifoner, arnongíl:
mher
Di[cour[es which he recóums of h1m, repares farcher of
him in che[e Words wfuich follow,
11 "
And laíl:Ly be aífured them, chac he was
'' the,.,true a!ild lavvfoll Lord and Heic. of the[e Kingdoms, and tbat
Ataba/iba
was
'' a Tyrant and Ufüuper; and
uha.t
he would
[ee
che Captain of che Chrilhlans;
~' and inform him
fo
m11ch, chac
fo
he-,mighc revenge his Injurjes, and reíl:bre,him
" to his Lib.ercy and Kirrgdoms, for that bis Father
G
uayna Capac
had at che 'time
" ofhis Dea1:h comtrm1ded him
to
be a friel'ld
to
che people who were white and
~' fair, wearing Beards, ,for they were to be Lords
óf
tho[e Coumries,
&c.
So
chat chis Prophecy was commonly known in all
Pe?1u,
as all Hiíl:orians write.
;
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All
the preceding particulars delivered by
Huayna C:apac,
were eUeemed t0 be
l1is laíl: Will ano Teftament, ahd held by che
Jndians
in high eftim
4
tion,
and
therefore they complied moíl: punlt:ually with bis Commands.
I
rernember,that one
day che old
Inca
fórmerly' [poken of, di[courfing before my Morher, :rnd refaoing
the[e particular matters, and1of the coming in of che
Spaniards,
and how they gai–
ned the Countrey,
I
took an océafion to·askhim, how ic carne to país char tbis
Councrey, being fo rocky and mounnaínous ·as
it
is, and che people warlike,
[o
d1ac chey could make Conqueíl:s of many Provinces, and form a mighcy Empire,
how,
I
fay, ic carne to país tbatthey íhould fubmit, and render themfelves to
fo
fmall ahd
fo.
inferiour
a
namber as che
Spaniards
were? '
In
anfoer unto which ne
repeatecl the old Prophecy concerning che
Spaniards,
relling -me,· tbat che
Inca
had
commanded them c'o abey and ferve tbem, as
a
people endued wich many more Ex- ·
.
t
cellencies than they; and having faid chis, he curned,to me, and wich anger in
his
face, reproved me far having termed them Cowards, and unwife; and in an[weii
t~ my demand he told me, Thac che Jaíl: Words which our
Inca
uttered, where-
by he commanded us to refign our Empire, and fübjeét our felves to a íl:ranger
Nation, were much more powerfull and available chan all che Force ánd Arms
which your Father and his Companions brought inco this Councrey, bue this he
faid
to
fhew
che
validity which che Commands of cheir ownKings had with them;
and how much more che Sayings and lnjundions of
Huayna Capac ,
delivered at
the hour of bis Deacb, who was che dearefr and moíl: beloved Prince to them of
any.
·
Huayna Capac
being dead , his Servancs, in compliance witb bis Commands,
emboweled and embalmed his Body, which they carried to
Coz.ca,bue his Heart
they buried in
~
iru.
_In ,all pares chrough whi~h his Corp[e
werecarried they ce–
lebrated his Funerals
wi.thextraordinary Sorrow, crying and lamenting for the
love and affeél:ion w
hich all
forcs
of people bore towards him; being arrived at
the
Imperial
City, his Ob[equies were celebdred in the moíl: folernn manner, which
according
to
che cuíl:ome of choíe Kings concinued far the fpace of
a
whole
Y
ear.
He lefc a numerous Race behínd hirn ofabove two hundred Children, an.d as fome
fay, three hundred, which íerv~s
to
aggravace the Cruelty of
Atahualpa ,
who
murchered che moíl:
p:.m
of chern. And now becaufe our defign is to íhew whac
Animals were noc found in
Peru,
umill chey were brought tbither. We fhall
make ir che Subjeét of this following Chapter.
CH A P.