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.

\.', · E'oo~_,IX. c ·fJ(A .R ·!·' ·~ · · .v¡ ihel· nflw:Niliñe:S.'f,iv~n·'to:.Jiflingulf15_ th¿ir fever;il-'Ttiv~s,. or GeneraÚons. ·· ''·' , A , \ B. U''.f " thetli~ 'aad tft@Jl:' ~~ be eÍl:eeméd óf alÍ dióf~ thihgs 'which wére tJ!ane · · ,porti€tf ~ilttói the Indi~r,:~w~re the sp:;th_i~~ds' tlhemfe~veS; 'ána the iYei~oi 1 \v!ilch . are.their ~Ji\ves:ind ~a\!ts;i~ ;tFtpm .~~~[~ .~~o N~tieas,o~~e~s. hav.e b~~~, d~r.h;elf, \\:lhich aFe a: c{i)mp·ou!19 ~tbf d~elk; • and; di(erehtr mixturei; · wh~ch . are d1~\ngu111h~d b~. ~iv,ers N~m~sr; .. And l!floug~ ih pur. Hi~t>tf. ?f F~oriiltt~w,e. ~av~ T~~í0neq· th!S pare.rular ,r yen &be1ng•to aar l,?~efent pur¡'.jofe·,·1t may !?~ converueat_to l.'epeat 1t agáin i'A thjs ip1a€ei: di~ matter is'this: /{,YSpanifh M4R; or:Weman, born;in Spain; and come; intoithat Córtnttey; ·ís there ~lled ·a Spania'rl/,,e'r a.'Cajfi/ian ';' but the CnilQrea bdrrt fo tibe I~dieJl :fil-om· §'paniar;ds, are talled Cr[o'Oos, ·which fignifies ,.on~ boJ;h in that Countrey 5 '·~liiid1 w.ord was mat:ie by rhe ~egr~{, for fo a.Jfo tbe;r caU! . their own:Chiildren borñ 1 iti rh1,9fe parl!S, ;and thereby diffiriguifh 'them from thofe . ·of@ulny, who'ar,é 0f>moré efieem fo¡; havíag,l!>ee!il bQrn;ftée' in tli1e·CoUliÍtrey of their :Fathers, than chofe . wh0 were ·porn m ' ~he laa<i Qf iBc;mdage ; . {o that tbe Nalille of Crfollosds cómmoa to the raee of the Spaniards, · ~nd ofthe Negros : the ' bloud' .of a Negro~ and an lndif1rl; 'being qi1?t~ctr tfqgether, .is ealled a Mulata', or Mi- . · /4td :_ To ·~lie.ct1ildrea of this kind óf müftnr~ tf:iey give ~he Name of chJ!o, which i&:a word framed in the Mles 9f' 'Barlovento, 'w&ich is as mutjt.i as a Dog, •afid nota· L>.og neither oftihe be& ·kmd.or race, but. 0f 'a Cur,,or Nfongril, givhíg·l!h_em.the· pioft dfttelitab>le; aad motil:_villanous Name qrey could invemt ; but the Chi1dren ·~tween a Spteniard· and an Indian th.ey 911 Mefti:i:.o1, wnich figHifies fue{!¡ 'as' come 0.ÍlWpnnijh amd Indian bloud , whlch is a wora•formed and filamed by .our lforefa- tfil~ts ,thc; Spánrar.df, ~lt conqu~red thís ~o~nurey ; · ~~for this reáfon 1 aip not alhame© t0.!(5wn that honourable denommat1on, :md·w1th a full moutll pro- .nounce my feff. to be one of tbein ; though, in tbe Indies tbey take it Jor ~a greac di(paragement for aqy Man to fay to one of them, Thoi!r ar~ a Meftj~o, · oi: liie is· a· Meflk,o, and fot that! reafon ·they take ít to be' a more h@nourable Name fo be · fall.ed a-::Mounta~ier, which at fult was g~ven · tliiem for im.· ;iffie>nt or difparagé-:' '1lelilt; ia regar.d that Mountanier is one born and,bFed in the Mountains : '.Buf af. ter,wards in conGc!eration that thofe who li,.ve,'· in the M©Ufltains of Bifcay and Áftu- r.iM,, do under the Title of Modnfa,iners aífurne to' themfelves ·great Hónoµrs and . Privile~es, the Mefti:i:.os wepe pleafed with 'that A:ppellatiófl., though indeed k is ónely hono'urable to thofe who aiie Natives. of thofe Plíovinces of Spain; and not t~ thofe who are born in the Mountains of Peru ; as Antonio de Lehrixa atteíl:s, to whom Spain o~es much for the Eloquen«l (l)f nis-Latine Toagtie'. , In the vulgar, Language Qf Pen1, S~haruna fignifiies a Mou,ntainer, and wliidi ·more propetly 'ís a Sal'lage; and fo when they called ~hern Mountainers, it' impliied· that they were a kind ofBeafts, or wild Men·; füough our füly PareQts flor underftanding the tme . p~opriety of the word, were pleafed, and gloried in their ·owa ignominy : the Children of Mefti:i:.os they ca:ll fl!!_atraluo1, whid1 is to fay, that they are t~ree pares Spanijh, and but 'one Indian ; ,but the Children of a MejH~o, with an Indian Wo- · mari, théy pil~ . Trefa/vt;' , w:hich is t~re~ párts I~dilfn, amd bw~ one Spanifh. A.IL thefe ~a~, · and many others, wh1ch f6r br:e:v1ty fake 1 om:l!t, were framed in my Cou rey fot diíl:inél:ion of tfue feveral generations, and tnixtu~es of hloud , wbich-h ye been compounded finc:e thé tirne of tbe Spaniards, and who were the ·Authours of them, as chey were o.f'many other particulars wMch·we have for- merly noted. ,And folet us return again to our Hiíl:Qry of the !ne.u; who were defce~ded from Huayna Cap1tt the Great,, whofo memorable ¡\étions reqaire out' atcenuon. · · 1 . .