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Roy-al ComnientarieJi.,

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'' ments with Towels, and other domefück conveniences, as alfo with Bafons

" of G¿ld and Silver, one of which belonged to

Ataba/iba,

and weighed eight

'' Arroves of Gold ( which makes two hundred weight Engliíh) and was to

" che value of a hundned; tlhoufünd.Ducats; bue poor

Atabaliba

in che mean time

" being much iocommoded lJy-his Chains~ defired

Pifarro,

rhat fince ic was bis

'' misformrre

fall inco fuch mifery, that at leaíl: chey would treac him well, :md

" eafe him of .chat burchen. Thus far are the Words of

Gomara,

which I have

excraéted ahtroíil:

v~r~atim,

a111d whidr a_re of tli~farne fenfe wich that w~ich is

delivered by

Auguftine Carate.

To which Aucnours I refer my Reader, m cafe

any perfon defües to reade thefe matters more at large.

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~ta}\ualpa,

:oJ,.-Att1óaJiba,

Prom[Jes a

great

~nfame

't(J

ob'iain his

Líber/y;-

fhld wh·at

E1íleav.01n~ were

made

for him.

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E Nobility which eícaped from the ílaughter

Caffemarca,

underfiaa~·

ding chaf cheir King was alwe,, i:ern

uned

to perfovm cheir ServJces to him'

Prifon ; onely a certain'Comrµan4iér c

:ill.ed

Rummi.,,1111i,

who wa~

a diffe..i

rene

opinio

o to all che i.:efr, and never aífe

nted t

o have Peace witb che

Seania1!d1;

or to

cru.ti

chem, remained b€hind

with the Souldiers uncler bis O,mrnand ; :ind

being

enra

ged co find his Counftls,reieéted , fled' witb his people into vhé King,i

dom of

fl!:!jtu,

with intention co make preparations for a Wali a~infi the

Spa–

niard1,

and fuch pr<:>vifioJ.11s as were

rn~i

ctmducing to

bis

own íafety : But his

rea,l eefign ~as to fev1 a,War againfr

Atahualpa

himfelf; wlío baving been a

Re–

!Del

bis own Prince, he choughr it no crime co follow

his

example. To whié:h

end beir1g entred inco che Kingdom

fbiitu,

he immediarely fc:i.zed on all the

S@¡:¡s,

Atahualpa,

on -prec.ence of defending and proteétiog them againfi the

Spn~i.1rds

;

but'

in a íhotctime he killed them all, togecber with

illifcacha,

who

was füoruer to

At11hualp_a

borh b.y Fatbier and Mother, called by che

Spaniard..

'Jl/,fa,u,;

and moreover, he kille~.

Gh1tl/.c11ehima,

and othet Capcains and

Curac1U,

we íhall declare in cheir due place.

The

Jnoa

Atahuaípa-being

now in,Prifon, and bound with Chains of Irnn, crea–

tea

Wittl' che'

spaniard¡

tor

the price of his Li~rty, and offered for his Ranfome

as maby Vcdfels of Gold and Silver, as füould cover che floor of che Chambei:

wheréin- he was ; and perceiving chat che

Spaniard.r

íhrugged cheir íhoulders at ir,

as eifher not believing him, or thinki11g the propofal too mean (as

Gomara

re–

ports) he immediacely profered to fill che Room to a certain red line which he

had drawn on che Wall,

far as he could readr with his hand, provided rhat

they neither put one

eífel

~thin ~he ocher, nor battered, or beat them clofe,

but onefy heaped them one on che Gther, untill they arofe to the mark and line

which he had drawn. And chus muen,we have exrraéted out of che 114th Chap–

ter of

Gwara's

Hiíl:ory. Bu-0 nqt

~nlarge on the Particulars related

lby

che

Spanifh

Hiíl:oriarls, to whom we refer ou11 folves ; we come, in fhort, to tmat which

imrnediately concerns the Life and Death of thofe Kings, the

JnctU;

and che utter

defuuétion of them , which was che

firíl:

deftgn and intention ,of chis Treanife;

and then afcerwards, in ics doe place, we.füall relate al! the mofi curious and no–

·table paífages which occurred in the Civil Wars arifen becween che

Spani11rd.r

t~emfelves : l3ut now to prnceed.