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.

BooK V . . Royal Commentaries. ing all che ways with Flo wers; ex preífmg the joyfulneíS oftheir heans, after the cu.o fiome ofrheir Coumrey_, and.a s was ufual at their greateíl: Feíl:ivals. In thefe vifits che Inca fpent three years, not omitting at the due feafons-to celebrare the Feafis of th_e Sun, ~hich they calle~ Raymi, an4 Citua : .And tho~gh the~ could. noc be per-. · formed w1Ch fuch Solemmty as ar Couo, yet m compli¡nce w1th their Religion rhey expr.eífed rheir Devotion with fuch Rices and Ceremonies,.as che circumftan~ ces- of time and place wóukr admit. . And now having accompliíhec,i his PrbgrefS, .he returned to -thrCiry, where bis Prefence was greatly defired, as che Proteél:our and Defender of ir, ot rather as he who had laid a new fóundation of an abandoned and rui~d place : And therefore che Cqurc and City aífociated cogether with. new Sonn . es and Pan egy.. · ricks, compofed in his praife, co·meet and c0nduét their Adored · g to h.is placé. of Refidence. · , . . ....-- -. CH A P. XXVt The Valiant Hanco·huallu flies out of the E~pire o[ the Incas. . I . . T . Hus, irrthe manner which we have dedared, thlsÍ~c~ ttavelied twice tbrougb · all Qy_arters of his Dominions ; and when that in his fecond ProgreíS he paífed through the Province of. che ChichM:; which .is the moíl: remate pare of Peru to che Southward, News was brought him of the flight of the hrave Hanco- - huallu_; at which lie wa.s greatly coµcerned, wondring at die reafon; or caufe, for fuch a refohttion. This Man, ir feems, was King of the. C~ancas ; and though for nine or ten Years.11e had proved che gentle Government of che Incas, who in revenge, or pu- iüíhment, of bis late offence, had not diminiíhed·the leaíl: point of his Powet or .J urifdiétion ; bue rather, on the contrary, creat~d him with due honour and re• fpeél:; yet 'in regard that he and his Forefathers had reigned as abfolute Lords and Princés over many.Nations, whom they had fubdued by their 1\.rms and Power ; his generous fpirit could not yield to afty SubordinatioJ;J, ot hold bis Coumrey in feud to a Superiour : He alfo envied the .fi2!±echuas for the E(leem they had gained in the fuvour of the Inca, by the Services, which in the late"War' they had performed ; and by whofe means and affiíl:en~ the Viétory was wrefied · fro~ himfelf: No~ could he ertdure t? behol~ that pe?pl~ whic~ i.yas lnferio~r, a~d 1 77 '\ once.truckled to him, to fiand now m eql1!llity, and m compeution w1th him for' Honour and Power : the which unpkafmg imaginations fo poífeffed his difquiet mind, that contrary to the fenfe and opinion of the I¡.ords and Nobles e>f bis Counrrey, he refolved to purchafe his own Líber% and abfolute Power, though wirh the lofs and-refigmtion Gf the Eíl:ate he po11éífed in his own Dominions. In order hereunto he imparted bis Refolutions to cer~in Indians, who were his Fiiends, and fa,irhfull to bis Intereíl: ; giving them to under'íl:and, that he could not fupport a Subjeétidn- to the Will and· Dominion of another; and therefore _ was refolved to Abandon his Native Patrimony and lnheritance, to recover .an Abfolnre Sovereigncy ill remoce pares, or dye in profecution of it. This defign o( Hanco-hua/41. bein~ rumoured abroad amongíl: bis people, it was agreed, tliat fuch Men as inclined to bis pany, 'fbould, with their Wives and Children, d~part · privately in fmall Companies, leíl: Nwnbers of People and Troops íhould.make a naife, <ind give jealoufie to the Inca ; and.that at length they íhould aífemble and me~t at a general Rendezvous in fome place beyond the Dominions of ~e Inta, where he himfelf would follow afrer them, and appear in the"Head of them as A a their