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.

1012 Royal Commentaries. BOOK VIII. Bilhoprick of Cardona, where 1 then Iived, and where he related to me many of thofe things which are here recounted. ·After fo long a time he obtained leave from the Supream Council of the lndies to return to Pene, and had three years given him to difpatcQ his Bulinefs there, and remit bis effeéts into Spain where he was af~erwa_rds ~blige.d to live and fin~th his days. Being on hl; departure, he wtth h1s W ife whom he had marned at Madrid paJfed by thc place where 1 lived, and defired me to hel,p him to fome Furniture for bis Houfe, for that he returned to bis own Country poor, and in want of ali things : l prefently !§ílVe him all the Linnen 1 had, with fome pieces of Taf. faty, whic~ 1 had made up after the Souldiers falhion, intending ' thcm for Colours, or Enfigns for a Foot Company. The year before 1 had fent him to the Court a very good Horfe, which he defited of me, which .together with the other things 1 gave him might be wonh 500 Ducats ; which he cook fo kindly tbat he faid to me, Brother truft me herein, anti when J come to my own Country j will fend yo11 2000 pieces of Eight in pAylflent rhereof. 1. do not doubt bua he would have been as good as his word, but my ill Fortune croffi:d me, for thFee days after he arrived at Pay¡a (which ís juft on the Frontiers of Per-u) he died meerly by an excefs of joy ne conceived to fee hhnfclf again in bis own Coun- try. Pardon me, Reader, thisDigreffion which l have prefumed to make fole• ly out of refpell:, and affefüon to my School-fellow. AH the others died in their Banifhment,_not one~f them.returning agáin to his own Country. CH A P. · XVIII. How ali the Incas of the Blood Royal, and thofo .of them ho~n of Spahiíh Fathers aml Indian Mothe~s JPere ha- nifbed. The Deatb and End ~t them. · ali. lhe Sentence gi:J:en againft the Prin:e, with bis Anfwer ~hereuntp, añd how he received Holy Baptifm. A LL tbofe lndians who were Males of the Royaf Line, and neareft ofthe Bloodi to the number of thitty fix perfons, were all bl\nilhed to the City of üs Reyes ; and there commanded to refide, and not to fl:ir from thence without fpecial Order,obtained from the Government: With them alfo the two Sons and a Daughter c5f that poor Prince were fent, the eldeft of which was not aoove ten yeat\ of age. The Incas being come to Rimac, otherwife cal- led the City of Los Reyes, the Archbilhop thereof, named Don Geronimo ·Loay[a, out of compaillon to them, took the little Girl home, with intent to educate, or breed her u·p . ia bis own Family. The others looking on themfelves as Exíles .ddven out of theír Country and Houfes, and put befides their na• tural ways of living, took it fo much to Heart, and bewail'd their conditi- on with fuch grief, that in little more than the fpace of two years thirty five of them died, together with the two Sons. But what we may believe contributed likewífe to their greater Mortality, was the heat and moifture of the Climate upon the Sea~Coaíl: whcrein they lived : foras we have faid in our Fir.ítPartof this Hiftory, That theAir of the Plains is fo differeut from that ofthe •Mountains, that thofe who have been bred in, and accuftomed to the Hilly Countríes, cannot endure the lower Airs, which are made as it were Pe- ftiícmtial to them by the cxceffiv.e heats-aad moiftures of the Sea. Tbis was 1 the end af thefe.poor Incas; andas to the three which furvived, oqe of which was my School-fellow, named Don Carlos, the Son of Don Chrijf()'Ua/ Pa11iH, of whom we have : formerly made mention, the Lords of tbe Chancery, taking pity of lh~ir condition , gave them liberty to return to their Houfes, and to more agreeable Ai.r ; but-they were fo far fpenr 1 and confumed · · beyond