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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
IX.
a~d accornrnodation of che Soulqiery, together with a Monafl:ery for che Seleér:
Virgins, anda Temple of !he Sun; all which were
fo
rnagnific,enc and ftacely, and
fo
fu)l of Riches, and repleniíhed wich Provifions, t_hat
f
ed,oiJ.e C:iefa
in the
44
ch
Chapcer ofhis -Book, comn:ends thern above the?k1es ;_ and fearmg lefl:_he lhould
fall íhort in his éomrnendat1ons, concludes, thac 1t was 1mpoffible for h1m
to
ex–
prels .the wonderfull Riches, which were comaim:d within the[e l\oyal Palaces
Óf
the
Incas.
.
·
'
In
memory of che_ aforefaid Feíl:iva-1,
Huayna Capac
_determined to fiyie his
Off–
fpring with che Name
of1',1mipampa,
thac
fo
that Solemnity mighc give aName to
his
Off-fpring, of which there were no more rernaining chan cwency two. And
1
whereas
Huayr}a Cápac,:
and his Fathen
Tupac Inca Tupánqui
were neareíl: allied in1the
·Tree
óf
che Royai Lineage,
Atahuálpa
was che more carefull and diligent to
ext'}r–
_pace and deíl:roy them cnan the ochers ; by which rneans very few of chem
éfc'.a–
ped his malicious·cruelty, as appears by che
Liíl:
of foch as furv~ved ; al! which
-being fumrned up c0gecher, make che number of
567
perfons ; ·and
it
is
obfer–
vable, thac chey were all de[cended by che Male, and not by
the
Female line; for,
as we have faid ·beforé, che
Incas
made lictl'e efieem of the Female race, unleís they
were ennobled by che Bloud of che
Spaniards,
who had been rhe
firfi:
Conque~ _
rours ofchat Countrey, and eíteemed
Inca1,
and 'fuch as were defcended fromtheir
God che Sun. The Letter which tbey wroce to me was ftgned by. eleven
Incas,
according to che eleven defcencs ; che Chief of every one of which fubfcribed
for
hirnfelf, and chofe ofhis Lineage, by their Chriíl:ian Names and Surnames of their
Anceíl:ours.
1
'The Narnes ofall che branches,. excepting che cwo
lal1,
are unknown
to mé in their fignifications, becáufe they are Names proper to rhat Language which
tpe
Incas
exerci[ed amongíl: chemfelves,and were noc common to che whole Courr,
We
have now onely farther
ro
[peak of
Don Melchior Carlos Inca,
che Nephew of
Paullu,
and Grand Nephew of
Huayna Capac,
who (as we have faid) carne
to
Spain
in che year
1602,
in expeétation of receiving great favours and rewards from che
Courc; which accordingly fucceeded in the year
1604,
when after confideration
had of his Worrh and Merirs, ic was dftermined chat a Largefs íhould be rnade
him
of
7500
Ducats of yearly Rene, and fetled forever on him and his Heirs, and
to
be roifed out of his Majeíl:y's Revenue iffuing from che City of
los ReJ·es
;
and that an additional fupply íhould be granced to hirq for bringing his
Wife
and
Family into
Spain:
Moreover, he had che Honour of che Habit of
Santiago
con.
ferred upon him, with promifes ofLodgings
jn
che King's Court: And rhat
for
che
lndians,
of which he was Lord in
Co:c,co
by right of lnherirance from Father and
Grandfather, chey were transferred to the poffeffion of che Royal Crown, he noc
being permitted
to
return
to
che
Indies.
The which information was wroce me
from
Palladolid;
what hath paffed ftnce frorn the lafl: of
March,
I
have not heen
advifed. And having
fa¡_d
chus rnuch, w_e íhall país to our temh Book, which
creacs of che Heroick ano incredible Aétions of the
SpaniJ1rdr,
who gained chat
Fmpire.
·
Tbe
End
of
the
Firft
Tome.
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