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Commentaries.
" ílarcing up, ran ro hisCornpanions
1
crying out, thac che Gofpel was defpifed,
" ;¡nd trampled under foot; Juílice and Revenge upan rho[e who concemn our
" Law, and refufe our Friendfüip.
In
like manner, it is fabulous what they write
" of che
Inca,
thache íhould
fay
that he was free, and owed not Tribute ro any,
" for rhat he knew no King füperiour
to
him[elf.
I íhould be glad
to
be
:i
friend
" to
the Emperour, who hath evidenced his Power and Greame(s in [ending Ar–
" míes imo Countries fo remate ; bue as ro whar you mention of Obedience ro
" rhe Pope, I.cannoc underíl:and che Reafons which íhould oblige me to a fübjec–
'" cfon unro him : For he who pretends to transfer another's righc unto his friends,
" and commands me
to
quic and renounce rhe Kingdom, which I hold by lnheri–
,, canee,
to
I kncw not whom, íhews him[elf a Man of little underíl:anding, and
'' lefs jufüce. Andas
to
che change of my Religion, of which I am in my con–
" .fcience fatisfied, and.belieye to be Holy ;
it
would be dil11onourable, and a
"· foily in me to quefüon' che truch chereof, which by ancienc tradition, and un–
,, doubted tefümony, hath been approved by my Anceíl:ours.
· All -which I fay was falfe, and frarned by che miftakes ánd flarrery ofWrirers
5
for
:At11hualpa
never queíl:ioned rhe right of paying Tribuce; bu.e onely infül:ed on
the Reafons why, and wherefore ic was due, and expeél:ed
from
him; which de–
rnands, or queíl:ions, put rhe
In,dians
inco acombufüon. The Commander
in
chief
of rbe
Spaniard1
and Caprains under hirn, fent notwirhíl:anding rhe former relation
which rhey had forged unto rhe Emperour, and forbid all people under fovere pe–
n:ilties ro make any other repare or narrarive ofwhac had paífed in chis particuiar
:
che rrurh of which is, as I have related ir, and which may be proved not onely by
the Hlíl:orical, or Hyeroglyphical Knors of che ProVince of
Caf[amarca,
but
by
the
teíl:irnony of feveral of chofe Conquerours, who were then,prefeot at thofe cranf–
aél:ions.
BlM
Va/era
faich, That one ofthem was his own Father, from whorn he
hath afeen heard it confumed.
In
íhorc, we fay rhac
5ooolndian~
were killed rhac
day,
3s-oó·of
which were ílain with cheSword, che reíl: were old and i.nfirrn Men,
and Women, andChildren, which were trarnpled and crodden under foor, for an
jnnurner·able nurnber of all Ages, and borh Sexes, were gathered cogecher ro fee
the Solernnity of this íl:range and unheard-of Ernbaífy. Moreover a great nurn–
ber
bf Indians
periíhed under che Ruines .of a Wall, which fell by force of che
violent crouds
of
people, which preífed under che íhelter of ir. Twó days after
this defeat, the Crofs was found in the farne pface where Friar
Va/verde
had lec it
"fall,,for no
Indian
duríl: approach near it, becaufe perhaps it was like chat which
the
Indian1
adored in
'Tumpii, '
believing that there was forne Divinity, or myfieri~
óus Power in chac piece of Wood ; and being ignorant of che Religion of Chrift
our Lord, chey asked pardon for chofe offences by which they had provoked him
to
anger.
.
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And now che
Indians
began to call ro rnind che ancienc Prophecy, delivered by
Tradition from rheir
Inca Viracocha,
whereby he not onely forerells rhe change of
their Laws, People and Governrnent, bue alfo chat cheir f~perfütions and religious
Rices and Cerernonies íhould be confurned, and perifh
~&'y
fire. And
in
regarci
· they were ignorant of che time when rhefe things were to be accornplifhed, whe–
ther now or hereafter ; boch che King and his People were íl:rook wirh fuch afta·
niíhment, th:ic chey"knew not what to determine; nor did chey refolve on any
thing eicher defenfive to thernfelves, or offenfive to che
Spaniard1,
onely they con–
fidered apd woríhipped rhern as Gods, and Meífengers ofrhe
GreatViracocha,
whom
they ado~~d under chis denornination and belief. Thus far chis Relation
is
extrae~
ted out o'f rhe Papers of
B!M
Va/era,
which I íhall willingly quoce hereafter in
fe-:
veral~p
s
of
chis following Hiíl:ory ; for he was not onely a,religious Man, but
onévery
ióus in find!ng o~c che truth, and ·~ncere in l~ying.d9~n rnatcer~ as
they
ywere aél:ed ; mwhich he was noc fat1sfied by h1s Enqumes frorn
Spani–
.11r:ds,
but likewife cook his Inforrnations from the
Jndians
themfelves : Fo~ which
reafon, wherefoever
1
find any thing of his tending to our purpofe,
.1
fha1l quoce
thern as authencick for their auchoricy; and in the mean timé, canoot bue much
lament bis lofi leaves, and fcartered fra:gments.
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