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 Commeritariet. made upon it, was forced at length to abandon his Defign, and fly íhamefully out of the Coumrey. The ways were fo bad, that the Mules were notable ro pafs with his Litter, fo that he was carried on the Shoulders of Spaniards and Jndian1 ; whilíl: the C'hírihuana1 cried afrer them, with Curfes and Ré- proaches, .faying, Throw down th~t Old Woman frum her Ba1ket, that. we, mt!J eat her alivt¡. For the ChirihuantU (as we have fa id) are a for~ ofpeop¡e greedy and ravenous afier Fleíh, becaufe they have none in their·own C::oumrey, eithér of tame or wild Cattel, the Soil not producing Herbage, or other nouriíhment .f or them being over-run wich Briers and Buíhes, and not cultivaced with the leaíl: Art or Indu- firy. Had chey conferved che Catee! which the Vice-king Jefe chem, ordering Cow-keepers or Herdfmen to atcend them, as was prafüfed in che H1ands of Hi- franiola, and Cuba, they might have had an increafe fufficient to have fiocked their Coumrey. Howfoever that barbarous people, even from that little Con- verfacion and Learning which they had from the Spániards' during their íhort 'abode in their Countrey, reaped fome benefit: as to their m:mners; for they did never afrerward eat che Fleíh of their own dead ; onely they were thiríl:y afrer the Bloud of tbeir Ne!ghbours, arid fo raving for the Fleíh of their Enemies, that .they defpifed their own Lives to gain theirs, being infenfible of ali Dangers ,at tbe fight oftheir Prey ; and fo much <lid they long for humane Fleíh, that when th€y furprifed at any time Shepherds keeping their flocks of Sheep, or Herd(men watching their Cattel, they wbuld forfake and negleét the Herds and Droves, to take and devour the Fleíh of the Shepherds, This inhumane barbaricy was fo dreadfull to all forts of people, and their Neighbours round about, that ten Chiri- ./mantU would chafe a thoufand orhers~ to whom they were fo terrible, that they affiighted their Children with their very Name. The ChirihuantU alfo learned from this íhort vifit of the Spaniard1 to make Houfes not for privare Dwellings, bue for the publick reception of ali comers; the Faíhion of which was one .wide Gallery, divided into as many Apartments as there were Perfons; rhe / .Room being no bigger than what was q¡pable to receive one fingle perfon, for they had no Houíhold-fiuff, nor Garmems to cóver them, going always na· kep. And chus much íhall ferve for what we have to fay of the condition and brutiíh Life of che Chirihuana1, who are fo befüal, and inhumane , that no- .thing lefs chan a Miracle can reclaim ch~m from this grofs and irrational courfe of llie. C HAP.