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the
hummi~g ceafed, they condud~d, fue~ perfo~ to ~e the evil fpeaker, and
f r_om thac tune, they would conce1v~ maltee agamft h1mt and for ever prove
bis Enemy.
And upan fuch foolenes as thefe, the Friends of
Hern,:mdez..
de–
c~ared, that ~he
lndians_
ha~ no Art in Necromancy, nor was any Faith to
bé
-g1ven to the1r Prognofhcattons.
The Rebel
Hernandez..
overtook his
A
rmy in a plain, which is behind the
Forcrefs of
Coz..co,
•where, as
Palentino
faith, he made a vifit to
Francifco Rodri–
g~ez..
de
Villa
{He~t~,
who was Jufrice in or~inary of that City; . coi:nplaining
. htghly of the Cmzens of
Cozco,
and
f
weanng that he would
kill
and deftrov
them, becaufe the.y had done him ali the mifchief that they were able : bue he
hada mind to quarrel wich them becaufe they efj,ouíed not his Caufe., nór
fol–
lowed him as he defired.
From thence he m,;3rched his Arm'lover thofe Hills
'which are Eaftward from the City, as his Aftrologers had direél:ed, and
carried bis Wife with him to the great grief of ali her Friends and Relations,
faying, That he would not leave her in the power of bis E~emy, to revenge
themfdves on her for the_Crimes
óf
which he himfelf was only guilty; and
fo
he proceeded to the Valley of
Orcor,
about five Leagues from the Cicy : And
befe
I
will leave hil'n for a while, to fpeak of the Prefent which the Son of chis
Francifco Rodrigue;:.,
de Villa
fuerte
made me in
Spain,
though 1 had formerly never
feen him, nor· had any other acquaintance with him chan by intercourfe of ·
Letters. The fecond Son,
1
fay, of this Gentleman, was fent into
Spain
to
ftudy, and lived in
Salamgnca
feveral years, where he improved great:ly in ali
Sdences ; he was called
Don Feticiano
Rodríguez. de Villa
fuer'te,
which name agreed
properly with the Gallantry and Ingenuity of 1:íis Spirit. At the beginning
of this Year
16 11,
thii G~ntleman did me the favour to fend me a
little
Box
about
the length and breadth of half a Sheet of Paper, ali filled with Holy
Reliques, wrapt up in feveral parcels with Infcri.ptioris thereon., what, and of
whom they were ; and amongft the reft, there was a little piéce of che Holy
Crofs, put into a frame of Wood curiouíly Carved, and coyered with a
Glafs, and gilded about the Crofs, which was eafie to ·be feén. With this
Box·of Reliques he
fent
me two Dials made by his ówn Hand, one of the Sun,
with
a
Needle turning to tbe North, the Shaiiow on which perfeél:ly fhews
the Hdur
of
the Day. Another Dial wás of ·che Moon curioufiy wrought ac–
cording to
the
exaét Rules of Aftrology, with all the Circular Motions divi–
ded into t'wenty nine parts, which make up the Days of the Lunary Moneth :
lt hath alfo the true Figure of the Moon with its lncreaíe and
1
Decreafe, its
ConJunél:ion attd F:ull:
lt
alfo by the fbadow caft on it (the Gnomen thereof
beingaltered according to the age ofthe Moon) fbews the Hour of che Night;
it
'
hath
alfo many Óthec Curiofities which
I
fball omit in this place, ali which was
made
by bis own Hand, without any other aid or direél:ions wj¡atfoever, boch
as tó the Material Part, as alfo to the Mathematical, to lhe great admi·
ration of many curious Men, as well
Virtuofi
as others: And for my
parr,
1
cannot but glory and boaft very much to fee a Man born in my Country and
my Cicy, to have been the Mafter of
fo
excellent a piece of Ingenuity and
Learning,
fo
niuch admired by tJ:ie Mtifts of this párt.
of
the"World ; the
which may ferve for a demonftrauon of the Natura! Gemus of che People oí
Peru,
and their capacity to receive all Artsaod Sciences, as well thofe who
are of Mongrel Race between Spaniards and Iodians, as ali others born there,
the which we touched upon before, ªI?d figniffed how much fome have been
improved therein by the lnduftry and Authority of our Schoolmafter
']ohn de
Cuella,,
who was a Canon of the Holy Church of
Coz.e.o,
who taught Grammar
in
chac City, though bue for
a lhort
time. Praifed be olir Lord God for the '
fame.
Amen.
Which havingfaid,
we
fhall return to
Peru,
to relate the foc–
cefs of his Majefties Army in their March, having k f
e
them formerly
in the
City of
Huamanca.
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