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Booi< II.
Royal
Commentarieí.
hisRoyal Tents; bu~ their force was repelled with force, and were al~ys repul
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fed wich lols and difadvantage. The
l ncá
confidering well che fhame and difho~
nóm'
it wóald 6€ to him co be foiled by this People; for thac ochers by tbeir
Example might take courage to rebell and r.efül: him; he di(patched immediate
Orders for new recruits to be fent hin1; but thefe he defigned racher for cerrour
and oílentltion, than neceffity, and in the mean time he íl:raimed che Enemy fo,
that there being.a great fcarcity of al! Provifions amongfl: tbem, they were com•
pelled at length to.make their way by force of Arms; che Battel was very hot
and bloudy, many be1og killed and wounded on both fides, rill ac lengrh rhe
-4Ya-
11iri
being woríl:ed~never duríl: íhew their Faces aoy more in Bacrel, The
Inca,;
not being willing to cake chis advantage to ddtroy them uccerly endeavoured ra·
ther by Famine rn reduce chem to his Obedience, During which Siege che re–
cruits which che
Inca
had [ene for, arrived in hisCamp, the Repon of which
[o
difmayed che Enemy, that they immediately_furrendr-ed and fubmitted
co
che
Merey of che
Inca ;
who
füíl:
having feverdy reproved chem wich biccer termes,
for having reftíl:ed.che Offsl?ring of che Sun, he pardon~d chei_r Contumacy and
Rebellion; and leaving Officers and Iníl:ruétours to ceach chemmche ways ofRe–
Jigion and humane Living, and
to
require from them chac riches which chey had
forfeited
to
the Sun and che
lnta,
he proceeded againíl: thac People which they
call
Pucdra.
In this Countrey he built a Fomeís, for better defence of his_ Frontiers
and confervation of his Conquefü; and che racher, becaufe the füuation of che
place being by nature íl:rong, was by Art and lnduíl:ry rendred impregnable, and
ferved to reduce the People of
Pucara,
whicj1 were by uo ocher means to be fub~-
dued, but by a War; which having done, and furnifhed his Fortrefs with a
firong Gar~ifon, he returned with great Joy and Triumph unto
Coz,co,
CH A P.
IX.
The Conquefl
óf
HatUn Colla-,
and the Fables which thofe
of
Colla
report concerning
their Original.
M
Any Y
eárs
had
not paíled before
Lloque Yupanqüi
returned again to tbe fron~
.
tiers of his Conqueíl:s, that he might make a farther progrefs in reducing
the
lndians
,
and enlarging his Dominions. The Repon which the
Inc,u
had
fpread from their beginning, of being fent from che Sun to inílruét and reduce,
Mankind from a befüal way of livi\Ig to Rules of fvforality and Policical Society,
had made prepatation in al! pla€es for teception of their Doétrine, and became
moíl: plaufible and prevalenc in che minds of chofe People, who knew not how co
difcover that ambition of che
Inca1,
which chey had concealed under che fpecious
principie of the Sun's Commands: with chis precence che
Inca
fenc
to
raiíe eighc
or nine choufand men well armed; and having fet Officers over them, and chofen
Counfello~rs for himfelf, he paffed the Countrey of
Collafuyu,
and ac lengch arn–
ved at his Fortreís called
Pucara,
where afrer\lvards that greac overthrow was given
to
Francifco Hernandez,
Glron;
which is fince called the Batee]
of
Fucara t
from
thence he fent Ambaífadours to
Paucar colla ,
and
Hatun
colla ,
(which are Coun–
tries of a large extem, containing divers Nat,ions) requiring chern
ta
yield ready
SubmHiion and Obedience
to
him; and chat being admonifhed by che example
of che
Ayaviri,
they íhould fear
to
oppofe the Progeny·of the Sun, leíl: che like
punifhments of FarT\ine and Slaughter fhould be the rewards of their Rebellion,
The People of
Colla
gave ear to this admonition, and affembling their Chiefs or
moíl: principal Men amongíl: chem in
R atun
Colla,
which
is
Colla
che great; they
generally concluded, that all thofe Plagues and Miíchiefs which had befallen
the
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