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. BooKlX. Com'tiriaAd€d h:>y thofe famo?s and· experienc~d (a~tains which his. Father had leftl : ancl f·€rnmrneoo@d to h1m ; two of which O~cers were efpec1ally famous crb~ve .che· r,€ft, one of'which was ca-lle~ Chalk~uciina, and .the orher ~i~ui:t-; áncl Atahua!pa gave out, 1 that he wo?ld h1mfelf lfl Pe~fon brmg up the Rere. Huafcár placing grnat confi~ence m t~e words of tus Brother, ~nd much mo~e in that untainrnd Loyalcy which the Jndians had ever born to their Inca& ; a refü- tnóny of which faithfulnefs is given by Acofta, in thefe words, taken out of che twelfth Chapter of his fixth Bob~: " Withouc doubc, faid he, grear was the " revernnce and affe~ion which .t'his people fbe~ed to their lncM, it having ne- . ' ' ver been known chat any one of fhem was ever gu'ilty of High-Treafon, &c. for whkh reaíon H~afaar fufpeéting nothing. )efs tha~' fuch a faichlefs and treafon- able1c,Mign, did w1th all freedom and genero1,1s hherty give order, that they fhould be fupplied wirh all Provifions in their way, and ali kind treatment íheweéf . cJiiem as befüted Brothers, who were travelling to perform the Funeral Rites of ubeir 'father, and to tá~e che 0aths of Fealty and Allegiance. Thus boch Par- . llies moved on different confiderations, chat óf Huafcar' wíth all the fimplicity and 11ncericy imagihable, and che other of Atahual¡a; wich :ill the fubtile :irtifice and cánning that could be comrived and learned in thé Schools of Malice. For Atahualpa being inferiour in Power and Strength to his Brother Huafoar, durfr na~ adventure on an open War' ; bue covertly inanaging bis deíigns, made fute of his game , which he had certainly loft, had he profeffed an open en- inityi.' . C H A P. XXXIV. Huaf~ar being advifed of the Tre,afon, alfembles his Forces. I N this orc1er the people of f2.t!itu marched for the fpace of four hundred Leagues, untill tbey carne within a hundred Lea_gues of Co'Gco : In which March, feveral experienced Governours of Provinces chrough which rhey paffed, obferving that che order which thefe ·people kepr, looked more like the Difci- plirn:fof an Army, cban the Rule of Mourners going to a FuÉleral 1 or of Vaífals going ~o take che Oachs of Fealty and Allegiance ;- for thac on eitliier of theíe oc- catioFJs fi.v~ or fix t~oafand Men werefufliicient; and chat for gi:ving Fealty, the in.- te~coutfe of Caprams and gyeat Men was onely r~~uifite alild neceífary, racher than foch a croud And mulutude of common Sould1ers : And farther rdletting e~ t!íe ·ntrbalent ~n<d unquiet uemper of Atahualpa, which was always falfe, and ~is hudi011r. Maruail, th'ey could.noc but fufpeét, ·char there Wás fomec~it'lg mo~ inrended·by 'chis warüb Preparan!on,1than what ten€led to Péa€e~ and die f!ro- reff!oi:is.6f <r'Brocher aná a SqbjeGli; on which füfpicrion and jealoufie they· dií}!at- ched fecret intefügence to Huaftarj befeeching him not to truÓ: t:© his Brofüer 21tahualpa? vyho. certainly <:ame wirh mher defigns Cl}ai;¡ whian. ili_e ©Utwarq{y'pre: cendeQi. ~~ · ~ · · 1 • • • ' 1 ·,_; ·, U[i'ón ·chis informátion Huafoar. awakening himfoltifrom that dreárn of fecttrify ih whith éhe ílept, diípa:rehed Metfugg'ers wirh all dil.igente pGffibl.e t0 tMe Go'lier"'· noqrs of .che Provip~es of Antifayu and Collafuyu, \Ornmanding them immed~áreiy tQ ma¡-Oh tp. Co:¡¿co w1th w.hat fov<;:e.s th@y were abl@ to levy : 1Mto the DMúoµ of ChincbafaJu, which was of the' gt~anelt e:lcrent, and wliic'h was fhe moft War- like Ngt~m:fof all th~ qd:iers, he 01nitt<¡d t:o fep~·· his ÜPaers, !;>et:m(e rhey were already joih€d with the1El'le~ies ic\:~my as tl~ey.J paíléd through ftheir ~ounrrey. 'Che people Qf Atahualpa growíng confid~ru, and emboldned by rhis negligence and fecurity of H11afcar, ancl his $ubjeélfs, anived l:Vithin forcy Leagues-of Co:i:.co; ·and . . ch en