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.

( ~49) Royal Commentaries. ) • 1 . J ,. r. 1 1 .. ! . ., 'N. 13 · O' o K IX~ ¡í!J '· J n 1' 'J J , . 1. .., C HA p: 1 I. • L ' ), L i 1 -~ .~ .Huayna C~p,ac caufeda: f ~ain 9fGold !º he má~e a5 h!g as a Cable; and his· Refons for it:; · 1 . · ', 1 f IL . : " ~ t_f' ' ' ~ / T HE puülant and powerfu1l H1tajna Capac being ;bfoluc~ iord of ·hiSiF..mpire, emplo_yed the füft ·yeai; of-his.Reign.in ipelif<i"rming the Fillleral Soleroniti€S of his. deceafed Fa&en ;. .and then af- térwards, to th~ grClat 1joy1and füisfáétioíl' dfrhis people, ,made ' : his pliogl.'efs in vifiting divers :rpart:S uf!his limp>ire; and '€v.ery- ' j wher.e as he'paífed, the CuractU carne forth·to meet and receive hím, and thepeople ·{!lwwecl.Dheir ways with Flowers, and madle 1 'friumphal1Ar- c:hes with ÜV1!leS and R:uíhes, covered with·Rofes -and Flowers, and odoriferous Hevbs ; ali -?laces!11efouncded wirh loud Acclamarions•of the peopie, repeating rhe .Al!lguft Tirles •of tiheJJncd, ef¡oociaUy' nloie Name of Huayna eapac, 'Huaynil Cap.ac1 whidll they ofrem :echo&rl, as nhar wbich comaine~ moíl: ofGrandeur and fümown ; the wi1~cb :be 1 :hávmg' deferv~d from. bis infanc~, did now, asithey believed, ~~rit a greater advance of:.Adorat1on, bemg placed m degree of a Gocl. A cofta wntmg · in 'the z.4th Chapterofihis fixt?h Book in cómmendation of this Prince, hath theíe wo11ds : ' ' 'fbis i'l-1119na Capac was adored by his people in bis life·time rfor a " God, and with tha:t divine Woríhip whic'h was oever befare mfed tdwards his :: Anceíl:ours, as and~nt Men füll living do remember, and relate of .their own knowledge. As dns Huayna Capac had newly begun to 11ílake hlS Journey inro divers pares of bis Empire, news was brought him, thar líe bad a Son and Heir boro, wfuo was afterwards called Huafcar . Inca : This Chfld being greacly defired, fililed· alll the Court with joy ; and was fo pleafing _to ~~is Father, tbat he rerurned to Co'{,co , ro be prefent at the Enterramments whiclu•were made for celebr.ating the Fefüvals of bis Son's Narivity, and was there received with all the evidences of joy , and cordial welcome , as could be póílibly- expreífed. This Solemnity being paíl:, whicb laíl:ed for "t~eaty days ; the l nct1., ont of the abundance of joy, which he conceived for rhe Birth df an .bleir, begao to emer- tain rboughts 0f doing and conrriving fomerhing 1extraordinary, anq nei,rer be- fare inventecl aga1flfi the time that bis Son was ro be weamed , at which t: ime they cut off bis firíl: lock of Hair, and gave hi.m bis Name , which, as we have faid in tbe former part of chis Hiíl:ory, was the moíl: folemn Fefüval rhat they kept, being obíerved by al! forrs of people, from rhe King to the Beggar; every ·one baving a fhare, and being concerned in ebe Birrh and Welfare of rhe Prince, who