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. R oyal Commentaries. being a valiant People, much furpajJinJ, ours in al! points of Excellencf Lik;wife you are to obferve, that in me the number of twelve Kings is compfeted ; :·and J farther mak; lznown t oyou, that ín a few Years afte,r my departure out of this L ije, thdt tkis ncw Nation will invade you, and then will be accomplif&ed that which our Father 'the Sun hath revealed, that t hey jhall becomeyour Lords and M ajlers. · 74-'herefore l encharge you to ferve them M Men, far they Í14 every thing have the advantage of yott ; their Law ú better than yours, their Arms dnd military Di[cipline m9re warlik;, and more i11vincible than yours ; and la.ft/y , J leave my Peace with you, for l am fummoned .by-my Fatker the Sut! lo rejl and repofe with him. . Pedro de Cie fa in the 44th Chapterif his Book, 'rouches upon tbis Prophecy · which Hua;na Capac had deHvered, concerning che Invafion of che Spaniards, and that after his Reign the Empire would be tranílated coa ílranger people, which was like thofe that failed in th.e ShiP'. AJLwhich1the 1,nca noldhis,¡'leople i.ri 7.')t- mipamJa, which is a. Coumrey ·i:iot far from f2Jtitw, where , in·is faid, ch e n ews was firfr brnugmt_of the Spam~ards, who were .che,Difcoverers of Peru. Ftancifeo L ope<:. de Gomar~, in the 1 i s-th Cbap. of hi.s·Book,, relatimg tlne Difcour[e :wfuiiG:h ·~mervened betw~n Huafcar and Hernando deSoto, ( wbo was afrerwards Governour of the Florida ,) amd. Pedr1J 1 de/ J3arco , faith , that when they tW©' travelled a:lone from Cajfamarca to Coz,co, (as we fhall relate in its due place,) Huafcar being rhen a Prifoner, amongíl: mher Dífcour[es whicb he recoums of h1m, reports fartber of him in thefe Words wfuich follow, v" Aad laíl:Ly he aífured them, rhat he was ' ' the ·true aRd ] a\~foll Lord and Heir of thefe Kingdoms, and that A taba/iba was ' ' a Tyrant and Uúrnper; and Emt he would [ee rhe Captain of ·che Chrilhlans, ~' and inform him fo rrrnch, rhat fo he'might revenge his Injudes; and reíl:ore.him " to bis Liherty and Kingdoms ;- for that his Father G uayna Capac had at the ·time '.' ofhis Deanh commafJlded .him to be a friel'ld to the people who were white and " fair, wearing Beards, .for they were to be Lorcds-óf thofe Counrries, & c. So that this Prophecy was commonly known in all Pemt, as all Hiíl:orians wrice. 3'75 All the preceding particulars delivered by Huayna Capac, were efteemed tQ be l1is laíl: Will and Teíl:.ament, ahd held by che l ndians in high eíhm4tion, and therefore they compiied moíl: punétually with his Commands. 1rernembertharone day the old Inca fórmerly fpoken of, difcourling before my Mother, a.Hd refaoing chefe particular matters, and1of the coming in of the Spcmiards, and how they gai- ned the Countrey, 1 took an océalion to·askhim, how it came to pafs that tbis Countrey, being fo rocky and mounuainous ·as it is, and rhe people warlike, [o chat rhey could make Conqueíl:s of many Provinces, and forma mighry Empire~ how, 1 fay. ir came to país that rhey fhould fübmit, and render themfelves to fo finall ahd fo. inferiour a namber as che Spaniards we~e? ' In anf\ver unto which ne repeateq che old Prophecy concerning the Spaniards, celling me,· tbat the Inca had commanded them to obey and ferve rl1em, asa people endued with many moreEx- . / cellencies than they; and having faid this, he rnrned,to me, and wirh anger in his fate, reproved me for having termed them Cowards, and unwífe; and in an[wer t~ my demand he told me, .Thac the Jaíl: Words which our Inca uttered, where- by he commanded us to refign our Empire, and fobjeét our felves to a firanger Nation, were rnuch more powerfull and available rhan all che Force ánd Arms which your Father and his Companions brought into thisCounrrey, but this he faid to fhew the validity wh.ich the Commands of their ownKings had with them; and how much more the Sayings and lnjundions of Huayna Capac, delivered at the hour of bis Dearh, who was che deareíl: and moíl: beloved Princé to them of any. · Huayna Capac being deJd , his Ser v:ants, i n compliance witb bis Commands, emboweled and ernbalmed his Body, whi.ch they carried to Coz.ca, but bis Heart they buried in ~itu . .In .al l parts thr ough wl ü~h his Corp[e were carried they ce- lebrated his Funerals wi.rh extraordinary Sorrow , crying and lameming for the love and affeél:ion w hich a ll fom of people bore towards hirp ;_being arrived at the Imperial City, bisOb[equies wel'e celebrated in the moíl: folemn manner, which according to the cuíl:ome of choíe Kings cominued for the fpace of a whole Y ear. He left a numerous Race b ehind h im of above two hundred Children, an.d as fome fay, three hundred, which ferv.es to aggravate the Cruelty of A tahualpa , who murthered the moíl: p:.m of them. And now becaufe our delign is to fhew what Animals were not found in Peru, umill they were brought tbither. We fhall make ir the Subjeét of tbis following Chapter. CH A P.