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 IX.' Royal CommentarieJ. ned Anfwer ro his Heralds, that they were , with all willing obedience ·ready to receive him for their Lord and Emperour: The like Anfwer was made by the lnhabitants of the Vallies upon the Coaíl:, -and other In-land Nations cal- · led Chnnana, ChintH, and Collonche, Jaquall, and others, .feated on the neighbou- ring parts. CH A P. 111 OJ th~ puni/h11ient infli[led on thofe who, kJlleJ the Offiters of Tupác Inca Yupanqui: T . HE Inca being entred mt6 Tmnpf;,; faifed a firong Fortrefs' and put a c'on~ fiderable Garrifon intó it; he bulle alfo a Temple for the Sun, to which he adjoined a Houfe for the Seleét Virgins; che which Work being füilihed, he pafled forward into the Countrey of chofe who had ílain che Captains, lníl:ruc- tors, and Doétors of Religion, which bis Father Tnpac Yupanqui had formeriy · feated in that Countrey, for the better Government and Erudition of that people, as we have formerly rnentioned. In rnemory qf which treacherous Villany Hu· . · ayna Capac fent bis Meflengers to them, commanding them irnmediately to repair tó bis Court, to render an Account of the wickednefs they had perpettated; and though chey were corífcioµs of the Faét, and crembled with the thoughts of the punifhment they had deferved, .yet they duríl: not refufe, or negleél: the Summonsj and cherefore in due fenfe of cheir demeric they humbly approached che Jpca, ca- fting themfelves with all fubrniflion at his Feec. The Inca hereupon aífembled all the CuractU, Ambaíf¡¡dou·rs, Courifellours, and Nobles, who were preítnt at chac Meeting, when his Facher, at cheir requeíl:, fent bis Officers and lníl:ruétors a- mongíl: chem ' · the which they had treacherouíly murthered; and all of them ap- pearing befare him, a cercain Colonel of che Army íl:ood 11p, and made a Speech to thern in behalfof che Inca; and in the firíl: place upbraiding thern with trea- chery, breach of their Faith, and cruelty, he accufed them of Ingratimde, and want of Underíl:anding; for that whereas they ought to have adored the Inca and bis Officers, for withdrawing chem from their brutiíh and beíl:ial Life, to live · tike Men, with all the Comforts and Enjoymer:m of. a rational Being; they on the contrary had barbarouíly and cruelly murthered the Authours and Iníl:ruments of their Felicity, to the greac diíbonour of the Sun bis Father; for which offence they had deferved fo fevere a putüíbment, that if'their whole Nation. of both Sexes, aQd ali ages were extirpated, and .their Race extinguiíhed, they were not able with the efluúon of all their Bloud, to make expiation for this.heinous crime. But in regard that Huqyna Capac was an Inca to whofe Namre Men;:y .and·Clemen- cy were moíl: agreeable, and whofe Title it was to be a Lover of the Poor, he did freely forgive all the common people; and as to chofe Authours and Contrivers of chis Murther, though they had all deferved Death, yet he was contented to de- cimate them, and every tenth Man to die, as his Lot íbould fall. u pon him, that fo it might be evident , that the Inca had no Spleen or Hatred to any m particu- lar, but onely to p1rniíh Offenders, as Truth and Juíl:ice required. And farther, that a Mark and Tefümony of this.Treachery might remain in the Memory of future Ages, the Inca commanded that the Curaca.-, and principal I?erfonages of the Nation, Huancavillca , íhould have two of their Teeth drawn from above, and two from beneath, and for 'ever to be fo cominued to them, and their Po- íl:erity, and to remain as a Mark whereby to reproach the falfüy of the Words pronounced with their Mouths, and the breach of the Promife of Fidelit:y ancl Vaffal age made to his Fa:ther T ttpac Yupanqni. z z The[é 353-