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· VII. Royal Commentariei. Unto their Subjeéts, and not be beholding to tqe Tongue of another; believing ' alfo thac their Subje& wich much more chearfulnefs received the grarious Speeches of their Prince from bis own mouch, than '.Yhen they were conveyed to them by the breath of their Officers : .but the chief Reafon and Ground of chis policy was in reference to foreign Nations, who for Wªnt ofcommon·speech and Dialeét, were fubjeét to rnifunderíl:andings, whence Enmities and cruel Wars ·arofe amongíl: them; for appealing which, and reconciling their Affeétions, no- thing feemed more probably conducing than a communicacion in fp.eech,_ where- by áll Mifunderfiandings mighc be obviaced, and the People be induced to Iove eadi other, as if they were of the fame Family and Parencage. With' this arti- fice the IncM reconciled different Nations in a íl:riét alliance, who had before been divided in their IOolatry, Cuíl:oms and Manners of Living, and fo effedual hath this Expedient been, that Nations who have haced each ocher, have chereby been allured into amity and friendíhip by iy The. whi~h ·good. eff~ét bei~g obfe'.ved by rnany Councnes, who had not as yec actamed che bappmefs of bemg Sub¡eéts co this Ernpire, was a means to invite them to the Snidy ofchis general Language of Couo ;. che which they having Iearned, and thereby Nations of difierent Tongues underfianding each ocher, their Affeétions were reconciled by it, being from mortal Enemies become Confederares\and Allies. Howfoever by chis new .Government of che Spaniards, many• of the Nations who affeéted the Co~­ can T ongtte, have now forgotten ir, the which Bias, Va/era ,onfitms in thefe words: · J' ' " le was che Cornrnand, fays he, of the Incar, that all Nations íhould fpeak " the farne Language, chough now in tpefe ~ys, by whofe faulc 1 know not, • " the fame hath been lofr and forgoqen in many Provinces; the which hath " proved a great interruption to che fpreading of the Gofpel, which,.hath much " increafed in che adjacent parts of Co~c_o, where that Tangue is ufed, and where. " chat people are much more civil, an'd dqcible than in other,parts. .Thefe are che words of Blao Valera, to which he adds in a.notber Chapcer, " That the ge- ' ' neral Language of Peru ought not to be !oíl:, bue rather ·taught and kepn up " by praétke arnongíl: the people, fo that che Preacher.s,of tJle Gofpel may have-· " but one Tongue to learn , and not be forced for evevy Province to fiudy a " different Speech, which would be a cask and labour nono be overcome• .. I ; ,.., • .,.,.. ! J ., . . ·' • 1 Kk~ CH A P.i