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.

Ro;al Commentaries. BooK IX. " dued many Caciques an~ lndiam, reducing them all to che obedience of Ataba- " lipa; of which, when Guaft:ar received imelligence, and of what chey had ac- " red, he prefently put himfelf inco a poílure of defence, and wich what force he _ " cou!d aflembJe in fo ~lOrt ~ time, ne marched fr~>ITI ~o:uo to ~ip~y¡an, which ' ' is abouc a League d1ílant ·from chence, where ·1oynmg Battel wtth Atabalipa " Guafcar was overrhrown, and caken Prifoner. The Fight ( as is faid) was f~ '~ . bloudy, that a hundred and fifty thoufand Indi¡ins were ílain in the Bat<el ; and " afrerwards Atabalipa entring viétorious into Couo, they killed Man, Wornan, , " and Child, fparing none who declared themf~lves for Guafcar, and moft efpeci- " ally made [earch for che Children of Guaft:ar, and his Wives and Women, who " were with Child by him : Howfoever Cne of bis Wives called Mama Yarcay " made an efcape \\'itb her Daughrer Cqy11 Cuxi Yarcay, who is now Married ro " Xayrt> Topa Inga, cfwhom we have made menrion in chis Hiíl:ory, &c. Thus far are Words of chis Aurhour; and then afterwards in the fequel of chis Story, he recouncs che cruel treatment and hard ufage .of poor Huaféar; during the time of his imprifonment, together with che dolefull complainrs he iutered; whích we ílJall rehearfe in cheir due place. This Coya Cuxi Parcay, .which he fays, wás' che Wife of. Xa;re Topa, was called Cu ji Huarque, o[ whom we íhall difcour[e heréaf- ter. The Field where chis Battel wá6 foughr was called ~ipayp_an by corniptioq; though properly it had che Name of ~epaypa, which fignifies a Trompee, as if from rhence the Triumph of Atahualpa was trumpered, and fenc its found into ali pares oí rhe Empire. . I remember, rhat when I was a Boy, I wenc three or four times inco thofe Fields with ocher'Boys, who were my School-fellows, where we enjoyed·rhe recreation of Hawking with fome Hawks, which che Indian Faulco- ners mañaged for us. . · fo chis manner, as we have related, was al! rhe Bloud-Roy~l, arid Family oí the lnw, extinguifhed and extirpated in the [pace of two years and a half; and chough they mighc in a much íhorter time have exhauíled che.veins oí Royal Bloud, yec to prolong their pleafure in Cruelty,they referved fome on which rheir appetites might feed, and füll be delighted in new exercifes of torment. The lndiMs fay chat che Field where che great effufion of this Bloud was made, was called Yahuarp:rmpa or the Field of Bloud ; and that it rather took its denominarion from the Bl0ud of che IncM, than from thac ofche ChancM; for rhough che quancicy of fhe Bloud of rhe ChancM was greater, yec the qua lity of che IncM rnade -theirs much more eílimable ; and che death of Women and Children being of tender [ex and age' rendered che mal'ly Murchers more tragical and execrable. ' ·¡ •• d ( l CH A P.