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 Commentaries. ; .J C B A P. X .V. ¡ 1· !J . ,: 't .. I o¡ the Renfains which are Jiill apparent of that Exp~~ 'dition. T HE particula.rs of this Conqueíl: and Difcovery made by the l nc.·a 1upanqui¡ . . w hich we bav e recoumed in brief, were afcerwards more at large related by the Jndianst boafüng much of the mighty Aéts and Valour of their A:nceíl:ours; telling us ofBattels which they fought upon the Water, and on the Banks 0f the River, and of fhe many Provinces they fubdued, and many other Emerprifes, which feem incredible to have been performed by a handfull ofMeo; and becaufe .that hitherto the Spa?¡iards have not been able to make themfelves Maíl:ers of the people about the Anti!, bow much lefs can it be pointed out to us, the way and means that thefe few Inca& took to fubdue and reduce th~fe íl:urdy Nations; and therefore fince thefe things feem incredible, we that defign to write a true Hilla- ry, have not thought fit to mix Fables with our true Relations, efpecially of things which being aéted in remote and unknown parts, could not come fo di:- ftinél:ly to our cognizance, as thofe which were aéted in the Precinéts of our own Countrey. Though the truth is, the Spaniards have in our time found many Evi- dences and Remains of thofe matte~s, as we íhall fee more difünétly hereafrer. In the Year 1 ) 64. a certain Spaniard, called Diego Aleman, born in the Town ofSt. 'fohn in the County of Nie6!a, Inhabitant of the City of Pa;:,, otherwife cal,.' led the New Plantation; being made Lord over a few Indians, was p~rfuaded by a C11raca of that place, to take twelve Spaniards more into bis céJinpany. and with them to make a journey into the Province of Mufa, where he aílüred them was much Gold offering himfelf to be their guide; the journey they undercook was a foot, both for privacy, the better to furprife the Natives, and becaufe the way was moumainous, and not paffable on horfeback; their Defign was for that prefent' onely upon difcovery, to fee and obferve how the Land lay, to' know the ways, and afterwards return with greater force, to make their Conqueíl:; they entred by Cochapampa, which borders upon Moxa. . · They travailed twenty eight days through Mountains and Thickets, and unfre- quented places, and at length carne to a view of the firíl: Province of that people. The Cacique gave them a caution to proceed ft1emly, and enquire of matters from fome Jndian .before they difcovered themfelves; bue the Spaniards not hearkning to the caution he gave, on the clofe of the Evening, with more boldnefs than prudence entred the Province, making a noife, as if their numbers had been great, . oras if the found of the Spanifh Tongue onely, had been fufficient to affiight them. But matters fucceeded quite otherwife, for th~ Jndians taking the allarm, and by the íhout they made, concluding them to be few in number, took courage, and falling upon them, killed ten, and took Aleman captive; the other two, by the darkneís of the night efcaped, and returned to rhe place where their Guide pro- mifed to expeét the~eing not pleafed with the raílmefs of their Counfel. One of the two which efcaped was called Francifco Moreno, the Son of a Sp11niard, by an lndian Woman, bom at Cochapampa; this Man got a Cloth made of Cotton, which was hanged in the air for a Hamock or Cradle, to lay aCb!ld in it, having fix Bells of Gold tied to the ends of it, woven with feveral Works in divers co- lours. So foon as it was day the two Spaniards and the Curaca could from the top of the Hill difcover a great number of Jndians, with Lances,, and Pike5, and Breaíl:-plates, which glittered againíl: the Sun, all which, as the Guide aílured them, were made of Gold; and chat they had no Silver in their Countrey, but that onely which they procured from Peru in exchange for their Gold. And to defcribe the greatnefs of that Countrey, he rold them, that ~s the Liíl: was rn that N n 1. Mantl~