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Commentarin.

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·"" pretence or occaGon wh1tfoever, wirbouc exprefs Order to the comrary. The

lndiañs

report, chat when

Huafcar

favy

thac there was no remedy, bue that he

" muft dye, l}e uctered chefe Words w1th great

pafi

ion.

have been Lord ofthú

Countrey but for afhort

tt'mc,

pút

ti!

to my Brother

fJ.i.at

Traitor,

whofa Command,

that am hú natural Lord ; am púi

aeath, he (ha1t enjoy hil Government for a much

/horter time rhan I have done.

Wherefore when che

Jndians

had heard that

Ataba–

liba

wasafcerwards puc

.de

th,

(as fh

all be r.elated in the following Chapter,)

" chei belíeved

Huafcar

to have

be.en

of the

rnae

·and legitimare Progeny of

" che Sun, who had illuminated him with a prophetick Spirit, touching the Fate

" of his Brother. And likewife

Huafcar

farther declared, that when his Father

" gave him his lafl: farewell, he enjoyned and commanded him, That when a

" People, or Nation, which were white, anti had beards, íhould invade his Do–

,, min\ons, that he fhould labour to_ ~ake a fr~endíhip with them, for that they

were

·to,

·become Lo;d~ of cha

t-;K1-~g~om. Thus far are thq W9rds of

A,,tgu-

ji-ine> élkr'ate.

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Fo1drty pare,

wh 1h

flnd the

Spanifh.

Writers to relate things

fairly,

arid with

the tfoth, and-gravi~y of Hillary, I am morn pleafed

make

.UÍCi!

cheir words

11erb(ltim,

cban my .own; for as I am an

Inqian,

and not a

Spaniard,

cheir wórds

and·expr~1Úo11$ muíl:

more propet d~~n mine 1 the which Rule we fhall always

ohferv~, ·unleís it be where the

Spanifh

Hillori~ are defefüve, and want Addi-

tioi,i{ 1 :: ·

••-1

,,r

But'tÓ.

return unto che fü!l~tion whích

A1:gu/tin de Cfrllte

hath giyen;

be nofed, that ne briefly touches many parucu1ars, which

Wt;!

have more at farge

related .in chis our Hiíl:ofy, -as namely, cbat which toncerns tl~e Tyranny, the

Cr?,ft and Diffmmlacion of

Atahualpa,

when he proved che Mind of

Francis

Pif_ar–

how, and in whac ma1:mer he would cake the Death of

Huafcar;

for in realiry

had'the8paniard

been as wary and as fagacious as was this

Indian,

and had prefontlY,

repliéd upon him, and told him pk1inly, thac I know, and am well aífured, chaé

it was you chat killed chis Perfon, ~nd that therefore I íhall infliet fuch puniíh–

meot

you as your Crime

de[erv~

;

jt is moíl: certain, that he would then hav~

been b~tter advifed, and never have advencured

011

this Murther of bis Brother

bue wHen on ch~ contrary, he perceived an indifferency in che Governour, who

lirtle fufpeéted

much evil in a perfon of that íimplicity ; he t~en took courage

and refo¡uc¡on to put bis wicked lntention into pr¡iétke againíl: the

Inca

his n.atural

King; which con(umrhated al! his ocher cruelries; Nor did he onely pue him tó

Deach, bµt killed ~im barbarouíly, cutting his Flerh into ílices, and throwing

tpem'noQe knows where; but the

Indirms

report, and believe·, that they ate his

Fleíh out of mere rage and malice againíl: him.

Acofta

faith chat they burnc him.

Atid

Carate

mentions, that the diligence and [peed, ufed in fending the Difpatche¡

for his Death, were not by rhe Potls, bue by Fires or Beacons, ',3/hich che

Chaf

quü,

-ór PoQmaílers, were ordered to make both by night and day, for greacer ex–

peditíQn, when any matter reqlüred extraordinary halle.

like manner chis Au–

chout touches on che Prognoíl:ication which

H11ayna Capac

had !efe, concernin~

the lnva~cmwhich che

Spaniards

were to make into chofe Coumries, aqd of whic!J

they wer~ to become M~íl:ers. He alfo farther proceeds, and tells us, thac

Her–

nando de

Soto

anci

Pete-r' del 13arco

were not ~lameable for noc r~maining with

H1111f-.

car,

a~ he. aeGred, and for not hearkenmg to che propoftt1on he had rnade to

them, ,which imported three times che Treafure, which his Brother had promiíed,

becaufe in rea\icy chey did not underíland him; for ocherwife no doubc, bue thofe

Meo, wh0fe buíinefs was neicher Conqueíl, nor their Embaífy matter of War or

Pe;at~, bu~ onely to fee chac che Promiíe made by

Atahualpa

for his ranfome,

were Gorilplíed wich, would have readily embraced che more advantageous Offer

tihree times che value made by

Huafcar.

And chus theíe two

Spaniards

excuíe

and clear themfelves from what was objeéted againll them, couching the Deach of

HHafcar.

.·

Thus-thisunhappy

Inca,

che laft of che Monarchs of thac Empire fell and en–

ded his Days, having beeµ a Speétator of all chofe Cruelries and Munhers which

his Broche!' had exercifed upon his Vaífals, Servants, l1ncles, Brothers and Sons -

and as to his own Perfon, had been ufed wirh füch Hardíhips and Severity it;

'Prifon, as were infüpportable, and which

Diego Fern11nde;i;,

relates

have been

¡ri

chis manner :

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