The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

• Royal Commentaries. BooK VIII. fhall cut thee into ílices, and confound thee, and all that belong to thee. Ooft thou not remember, that •about this time, and in this ver¡ place, we cut off the Heads of thirty Spaniards, and that one of our lncar difmounted two men and wreíted rheir Lances from them, and had done the like to -Gon- fa lo Pifa~ro 1 had he not refcued him(elf .by a more th~n ordinary· Agility and Prowefs? Doft thou not know, that we put an end to our Wars again!l: the Spaniards, and ~aifed ~h e Siege of _this. Town; _and that our Prince did vol~n­ rarily refign bis Ernp1re, and ~eure rnto Bamiliruent, upon no ot~er Motive than the aftonifhment we conce1ved·, to fee the many M1racles wh1ch the Pa- chacamac wrought in favour and defence of them? Doft thou·not know, that during the fiege of this City, w_e killed near 800 Spaniards in the way to Rimar:? And were it not now a brave thmg, and a Gallantry fit for the Honour of fuch a Feaíl: as thi s, to raife up th~ H: ads of al.l ~hofe that were ílain, with the Head of ']ohn Pi f arro, who was k1lled above, m yonder Fortrefs, and expof~ them to the vie\'I of ali thefe Speél:ators ? 1 t had been well, if thou had!t confidered thefe particulars, and ma'ny others which I could now relate, before thou hadft alted fu ch a fcandalous p iece of foll y as this. And then turning to the Deputy, Sir, faid he, do me that J ufüce, which the nature of this Infolence requires, rhat we may not be ~ffronted nor trampled on by our own Slaves. T ,he Oepmy Monj araz:. having heard the Reafons alledged by one, and the o ther~ · brdered the Head which Cannari carried in his hand to be taken from him, and the Maf\.tle which was girt clofe, to be ftripped off, requíring ·him on pain of a fa r greater punifhment, neither to difcourfe, nor tre·at of fuch rnauers as thefe, either in pu,blick or privare. With this reprehenfion g iven to Cannari, ali the Incas and Indians b?th Men and Women were fully fati sfi ed :, and the word A 1ica, Auca, was ra1fed, and taken from one to a- nother, which refounded over ali the Town: And then tbe Proceillon was carried· forward without interruption, according . to the accuftomary Cere- monies. It is faid, that the compafs .which they take in carrying the Procef- fion now, is · twice as far as it was formerl y ; for now they go out from the Great Church, and return round by way of St. Francis, whicb is much farther, than when they only fetched a compaís round th.e two place-s of Cuftpata and Ha1Jr:aypara, which we have often mentioned. Bleffed be the Divine Maj e(fy, who hath VQuchfafed to b/efs this Countrey with thefe holy Footfteps, and to enlighten the Gentiles, who were formerly benighted in thc darlz. of Ignórance . e ·HA P. n. Of a flrange Ac~Uent which fell -out at Cozco. S Ome years after theW:irs of Francifao H ernandez. were ended, another Acci- dent happened at Coz.ca, which was very ftrange; the which having received from the report of fome intelligent, and religious períons, who underftood, that I fqonld fa y, that a N arrative thereof would tend to the fervice of our Holy Mo- tber the Roman Chnr ch, were pleafed to Tranfmit a Relation thereof, that l mi ght infert it in thi s our Hiftory :, and accor clingly as an obedient, tho' an unworthy, Son of fu ch a Mother, ' 1 have thought it my Duty to recouot that matter in the manner following. Eight or nine years bef?re che la~eTroubles , the Feaft ófthe Evangelift St. Mark_, was annually celebrated rn Coz.r:o, m fuch manner as the lnhabitancs ofthat City we11e able to perform. The Proceffion was carried forth from che Conventof the B. St. Dominick_, which as we have before mentioned, was founded in that Houfe, which in t he t imes <:>f Gentilifm,_was t he T emple Dedicated to the Sun. From this ' Convent the Proceílton was carned to a certain Hermitage, q_djoi ning to thole Holí- fes which were bd onging to DO'?: Chriftov,1JP.mltt Inca, Acertain Pr ieft call ed Fa- t her