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.

, Royal Commentaries. Bloud-Royal, hothMen, Wornen .and Children, over which mo!·e tender Sex, tha~ his cruelcy rnight rriumph, he fub1eéted them to the mofl: exqmfüe tonnents that his. ry ra nnical rna!ict co.uld invent; and not fatiating himfelf fu~ciently with his own fle!11 and bloud, h1sunhumane rage proceeded to a deíl:ruét1011 of ali the Ser- vams and Dependants on the Royal Court, which (as we have fa id) were very numerous ; for Offices were not confined to fingle perfons, bue to Villages and Towns which were obliged to [erve in their turns, fuch as Porters ac che Gate Sweep~rs, Water-bearers, Gardiners, and the like; all which by cheir Village; and Communities being employed in cheíe Cervices, had their Habitations for the [pace of five, íix and ~even Leagues round Co:uo, ~hom he totally deílroy~d; and not being contented wHh aMaílácre of the Inh1b1tants, he demoliíhed their Dwel- ~ Jings, and put ali to a miferable devaíl:ation ; and yec his cruelties h~d proceeded farrher, had noc the Spaniards, who in the furious progrefs of bis Tyrannies, emred that Countrey, given a ílop to his farther executions. Now whereas che Spaniards in a fhorc time afcer their coming toók chis Tyrant Arahua!pa, and in che publick Markec-place putting him to the Wrack, executed him before che people in che moíl: exemElary manner ofpunifhment; which when che Jndians obferved, they praifed cheir God che Sun, who had [ent the Spaniardr to perfonn jufüce, and revenge himfelfofthe Tyrant, who had deílroyed his Chil- dren, and all thofe ofhis Bloud and Family : For which reafon the Indians looking upon che SpaniardJ, as thofe who were fent from theirGod, did yield entire obedi- ence to them, fürrendring themfelves abfolutely to their di[pofal, which was a means to facilitate their Conquefis ; for they adored them as the Progeny which was defcended from their God Viracocha, who appeared in a dream to one of their Kings, and therefore they gave the Name of Piracocha to the S¡aniards. On chis fal[e füppofüion they conceived this fimple fancy, chac when they heard the Cocks crow, which the Spaniards brought in, and were the firfi that were ever feen in Peru, they imagined thac che Cocks pronounced che word Atahua!pa in ab- horrence of his detefiable tyrannies; whence contraéting the word, they called Cocks and Hens by che Name of G1talpa: And whereas tne India11J recounced theíe Fables to their Children, whereby they defcended by way of tradition to after A- ges; che Boys, when they heard the Cocks crow, would anfwer in the fame tone, crowing out, Atah1talpa ; and 1 muíl confefs, when 1 was a Boy, that I ufed, a- rnongíl che other young Indianr, to imicate che fame tune when I ran about che Screets. And thus we Children quavered out Arah1ta!pa, imicating, as near as we could, che voice of che Cock: NoJ did we onely tune his Name to our Song, but we brought che Names of bis principal Captains into the Air of our Muíick, as Chall- cuchima f2!!i!lifcacha : And Ruminavi, which fignifies the Eye of a Stone, becaufe he had a Pearl (as we call ic) on one of his Eyes. BIM Valer1t having in his loofe and fcatte1:ed Papers given an account of the füdden Death of A1ah11alpa; farther faith, chat though he had been cruel to his Relations, and chofe of bis Bloud, yec jn the Governrnent of his own people he was endued with incomparable Excel- . lencies, endearing thern to him by many obliging circumfiances, -and at lafi in Ele- gant Latin u[es thefe words: " Hence it was, rhac fo foon as bis Deach was di- " vulged amongfr his Subjeéts, they '~ ould cornfort themfelves in faying, that the " very Cocks which the SpaniardJ had brought over would not füffer the Name of ' ' fo great a Perfon to perifü, or be forgotten, larnenting in their ddlefull tone the ' ' Name of Arah11alpa ; and therefore they gave the Name of Atah11alpa to ali " Cocks, which word the Indianr of all Nacions vulgarly received, as did alfo the " S¡mniards and Preaclms cake up that word, when they would exprefs che Name " of a Cock to che Jndians. Thus far are theWords of Bias Va/era, wbo receiv'ed this Relation in the Kingdom of f2.!!iru, from the Subjeéts of Atahualpa, who were as well inclined to hirn, as good Subjeéts are to their natural King : And on the contrary, foch as lived in Co:uo , and vvere of a different fa<~lion, interpreted the crowing of the Cock with Arahualpa in his voice, to qe by way of abhorrence and detefiation of che rnany cruelties and tyrannies of which he was guilty. By which 1 füppo[e, thac I have fufficiently now confuted d1e three former Conjedures; and that I have clearly preved, that there were no Cocks or Hens in P(m, oefore the Conqueíl: which the Spaniardr made of it. As the Spania~ds broughc Hens and Pigeons firíl into Peru, fo alfo they brought Peacocks thither from Me~icP , for before chac time none of that kind had beea · feen