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BooKII.
Royal
Gommentariet.
CH A P.
The lnfurretlion of"Prince
Manco Inca;
and of the
Two
'
Miracles which were
wrought
in favour of the Chri-
/fians.
T.
HE Plot
being
thus
laid, the
Inca
gave Command thát th~·Souldiers now .
,
leavied, and in a P9fiure of Wat íhould march towards
Couo,,
and
to
the
City
of
los
Reyn,
to
kili,
ílay and defüoy the
Spaniards
thetein; and alfo ás many
<;>f
them
as. they
found fcattered and difperfea over the Kingdom
~
fot
by
thé ·
gteac kindneís and
pea(eable difpofition w~ch the
Indians
had íhewn
to'
them'
hi~htmo" ihe
Sp_1t!'_i
ar.dsOO:af!le rec~re, and wlthout fear
~t
jealo~fie of any
Mif–
ch1ef, ~mpl~y~ tht:mfelves- m d1ggmg Gold out of the Mines, w1th as much con–
fi.dence as if rhey laad beén in cheir own Counmtey. The War having taken its
beginning from the ílaughter of many
SpaniardJ,
that were labouring ih divers
Rlaces, they rna:rche4 to
CoMo,
with áH nhe privacy they were able, and carne thi–
th€r oo the d~y appointed; and that very night following they fuddenly fell on
the
Spartiards
with loud Noife and Shouts, beíng two hundred choufund in num–
h:€r, many, of wlüch were atmed with Bows ana,Arrows, which they íhot wich
Fire-baUs ínto
iil
che Houf~ of che Cicy, nót fpatting thé very Palaces
óf
their
Iphgs., _nor a~y 0Ehei;, excepting onely che Telil1!ple of th~ ~un,, and rhe Chambers
BelongJIJg to 1t, and alfo the Conven~ of the
Sel'eét
VirgJI1S,
ami tite Shops oí
the four Stteets, where
this
Houfe was fituate; and chough thefe Houfes·were deá
(poiled of theµ, Riches, and wichout-Inhabicants, yec cheir Reverence and Devo–
tion towards thofe fa:€:red places; caufed them to abfiain from all forc qf Sacri~
lege m viok;ace .chereu11to, They alfo thought
fit
to conferve frotn Fite tht
three great Halls
in
the Market-place, where they ufually celebraced their Fefri–
váls in rainy Weather, in,cending to maincain them for .the like ufe agªin, afcer
they hacl freed themfelves fr@m die Tyranny ofthe
SpaniardJ,
One of thefe H'.alls
was fituate
m
t&e higheíl: pm ofthe City, ádjoining toche Houfes of the firíl:
In–
ca, Marzco
Capav,
as,we aaye defcribed in tme Model ofche City·: The oclier Hall
.rppercainf!!d.
to-
the H0ufes of
I,nca
Pachaeutec,
called
Caj[-ana:.
The third Half
·was helonging
tó·
tfue Ealifice of
Huajna .éapac,
which cfuey éalled
Arnarúc;incha,
where now
die
Jefuic€i have their College. And morecWer chey preferved a
liandfome round
Cupolo,
which was built on che Front of thefe Houíes;
ali
che
pther .Buildings were burhc,, and noc
fo
much as one lefc íl:anding. To bum thé ,
Houfe of che
Inca Viracocha,
where che
Spaniards
were quartered, che íl:outeíl: and
moíl: valianc
P11dia·ns
were chofen, w1l0Jlemned ic with great Fury, and fhooting
their Arrows ac far ,
difr.am:e; fet it on füe, and entitely coi:1fümed it. The great
Hall chenwf,. whkh is,now the Cachedra
1
l, and chen.
a;
Chapel, where che Chri–
{fians faid Mafs, was by the Provid'ence of God defended from the Fire; and
though innumerable Arrows, carrying Fire, we11e íhot into it, and began t9 bum
ic, in feveral pam, yet in a miraculous manner it quenched of it felf; as if Water
in
flouds had qeen chrown upon
ir:
.A:md this wás one ot the Miracles which
God wroughc for es, to máke wa,i
for
the·Propagation of the Gofpel,
in
chaé
Cicy, wh€re cercainly, is now fettled the m<:>hli dev©ut and religious fociety of
Men chacis in all the New World, bonh for
8f.ániarcd:s
and
indianJ.
_
Humando Pif.arro,
and his cwo Bronhers,. with their Souldiers, which in all did
noc make ab6ve two hundred, which was an ihconfiderable number agaióíl:
fo
might;5 a Force;, kepr dofe in a·Body
1 ;
and like good:Souldiers were always upon
rhe Guard, placing their Centinels af every. Avenue, and Watdimen upon, che
Tower. As oft as the Noife of che
Jndians
allarmd them, they íl:ood to th€ir Arms,
and bridled theit Horfes, of whic:h every nighc tbircy lil:ood ready fadled, to make
Sallies on the É.nemy, and furvey their Force. Wheo they had difcovered their
·
great