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U'.f.-~hetf~ 'ánd
tft@.ft
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t{j_be·
e{tee~ép of'alJ diofe.thi~gs wh_i~h,ivéire t~anfr
. ,poi;ti€tfiimtólthe
Jnd,i'ér/•were tbeSpdhia~ditihemfdves;
oand the
Negro}lwfiich
ate.theirSJ.\v~~:ihd
~ -aijtv .· )Ftpm
~~~féF~':9
N~tioas!9~_le~s-hav~
h~~~,q~~h:-el,
which
aiie -a;:c~mf;-ou!19'.tbfi ráel.é,~• and cl1fferentt mixtur~ ·wfüch-are d1~mgu111h~d
hi~ivers Nám~s.~.-. _And tiliough
in
purfi!~P!f.
?f
F~ori~~:'Ye-~av~
~#Jtiomeq-tli!5'
par~~,~
yeNd,e1ng,
to
?~r 1;1J~fe~t pu~?fet 1t -may 9,e_ oonvemeat_to !epeat 1c
agám
in
thJs ip1acei: die matter-1s tfüs:
lfspanifh
M;,¡n; orWornan, born,m
Spain;
aad
come:
fotti:>rthat(bµh~~Y;
ís
theiie qlle4 ·a
Spania'r'3, e'ra: Caftiiia11
;'
but the
Chilgren
bdrrrin
the
Indie"i front jpaniar,ds,
are talled
Cri-;JOos,
which fignifies-on~·
boro
in
that Counttey;
,,wltñeh
w.ord was malie by the
lVegrts,
for
fo
a1fo
tbe)'
ca.U!
. their own.Children born•iti raofe pares, and•tFiereby dHl1irlguifh 'them from thofe
.
·of@uiny,
who'ai:e 0f,moré·tlilieem
foi:
baving,J!>een bQrn-fteé in tliie·Couliltrey of
their Fathers, thán thofe .w1ho were -hora
m
'füe lamí
óf
IBondage ; .
fo
that
-the
Na\ílle
of
crt~tlos
•is
common to the i-ace of the
Spaniarcl.s,
'~hd
ofthe
Negros :
thc
bloud'.of a
Négro~
andan
indiffn,
'.being
m1
,c.edtfqgether,, Js éalled a
Mulata',
or
Mi~ .
lati :_
To -~he,Cl;1ildren of this kind ófmrntnr~ they give ~he Name of
chJ!o,
which
is,!a
word framed in
thé
Mles
9f''Barlovento,'
wl.iiich is as mu~h as a
Dog,
,and not a
Jlog Reither
ofdie
befl:-,kmdor race, bue of'a Cur,,or Móngr:H, givin'gi!hem.the'
tnoft deteliblole; _and
mol.il:;vHfaRous Name *ey could invent ; but
the
Children
'bftw.een
a
Spaniard
artd an
Indi'an
th.ey(:all
Mefoi:i:.01,
wnich fignifies fudi"as'come
QnStnnifh
and
1ndian
bloud, which
is
a wora formed
and
framed
by
.our
Forefa–
t0er.s the
spánrar.di,
,.wooJirft
conqu~red this Counttey;. ~oofor·this reafon
I
am
not aíhamed to/45wn that honourable den0mination, ana-with a foil motidí pro-
.nounce my
feff.tobe one o( tbem ; though_ in tbe
Indi~s
they cake it for ,a greac
difparagement for aqy Man to fay to one
of
them,
Thmr
art a
Meftf~o,
or me is·
a·
Mijfko,
and for- that! reafon 'they take it
tG>
be
a
mor,e·h(l)¡iourable Name
to
be ·
fall.eda-:
Mounta~ier,
which
at
futt
was giveri·them for an ·affiemt or difparage-·
µi@lilt,
in
regar.d that:
Mountanier
is
one
bdrn
and bred in thé Mountains :
,_:But'
af.
ter,wards in conGderation that th0fe who li:ve,·,ia che Mountains of
Bifcay
and
Aftu–
r,iM:;
do under the Title of
Mountainers
affurne
to
themfelves great Honoµrs and
Pl'ivifoges, the
Mefti~s
were pleafed with 'that Appellatión., though indeed it is
énely hono'urable
to
tmofe
who aiie Natives.
of
thofe Pliovinces
of
Spain;
and not
to
thofe who are boro in the-Mountains
df
Peru
;
as
Antonio de Lehrixa
attefls, to
whom
Sp/4in
owes much for the Eloquence of nis,Latine Toague: ,
In
the ·vulga~
Language of
Per11, S4Charuna
fignif.ies
a
Mou,ntainer,
and wliidi ·more properly ís
a
Salvage; and
fo
when they called ohern
llfounta'iners,
.ifimpliied· that tney were
a
kind ofBeafts, or wild Men ; füough our füly Parents not underftanding the tme .
p~opriety
of
the word, were pleafed, and gloried in their owR ignominy :
the
Children of
Mefli~s
they cal!
fl!!,atraluo1,
:which is tto
fay,
rhat they are three parts
Spanifh,
and 'but'one
Indian
;
.bat the Childr~n of a
Mefti~o,
with an
Indian
Wo-
, mañ, they pil~_
Trefalv'!',
which
is
t~re~
,páft:s
I~dian,
,and ha~ one
Spanifh._
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A;ll
thefe ~~a, ·and many others, wh1ch f6r brev1ty fake
l.om:1:t, were framed m
my
Cou rey.fot diflinél:ion of the
fevér.algenerations, and rnixtu(es of bloúd ,
which-h ye beei:1 compoundecl fin~e thé time of the
Spaniardi,
and whó were the
-Authours
of
them, as they were o.f'many other particulars which we have for–
merly noted. ,And
fo
let us return ·again
to
our Hiíl:ory
of
the
!ne.u;
whó were
defcended
from
Huayna CapitC
the
Great,
whofe
memorable
:Aétions
require out'
atcention.
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