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. BooK-lt e HA P. VIII. Bf the fhird King Lloque Yupanqui, and the fignificatzo1i of his Name. · L Loque tup1mqui was the tbird King of Peru, called Lloque, becaufe he ·was left- . handed, and Tupanpú ferves to denote bis Vertues and 'genetous Aétions. The word Yupanq11i fignifies as much as an accoun~, or reckoning , as we fay ar Man of Accoum, which is a Cypher, ot Hieroglyphick, in thaF lahguage, for aJ füm of Vermes, as Clemency, Piety, Genélenefs, &c. all which were qualities inherent in that Perfon, and is as cotnprehenfive as the word Capao, whích con- tains the Riches ofFortune, and the Wealth of Vermes, inherent in the rründ, which Apellations, or rather Titles, they gave to none of their chiefeíl: Lords, but to the King onely; it being eíl:eemed a kind of Sacrilege to attribute foch facred Titles to any other : for as the Romans gave the name of Aug1tftm to their Emperours, in a particular diíl:inétion to ali otners; fo it weuld have been a di-1 minution to their Majeíty to have made tbis peculiar Name cómmon to thcit Subje&. L~oJ.ue Yupanqui having taken a (urvey of his Dominions, refolved to extend bis J urifdiétion farcher than the Poífeffions of his Fathers , and being now che Lor& of an Empire which had been eíl:ab}Hhed and radicated for che fpace of,feventy years, he tbougbt it a 1.J10re expedite way by force of A!'ms to reduce thar People, chan by che ílow inftnuations which arguments and perfüafions made u,potJ them~ To this end having raifed an Army 'ofabout fix ot féven choufand men, under the conduét of his two Uricles, and of bis other Kindred, whom he mad@ Captains, and Commanders over them, he 1 took h1s march towards tbe CoUmtey of Ore~ fuyu, leaving that of Llm'afayu, which his Father had lteady conquered, (the foveral ways to which divide in che Province of Chuncara) he paífed chrougfi the divifion' of Co/lafuyu., which contains che great Lake of Titicdca. The Inca having paífed the fromiers of bis own Dominions, ehterecl the Cóun- tréy called Cana; and immediately difpacched Meffengers to che·i\atut'al lnhabi- tánts thereof, requiring rhem to leaVe rhei.r beíl:ial Sá'difices and foperfütious man" ners, and with all readinefs to fübmit unto che Opedi~nce and Sf;rvice of hilii who was defcended from the Offsprllig of the Sun: The PeoRl~ of Cana defüed titne~ to inform themfelves of all the partitulars \\'hich the Inca cóttimanded thetn, ~s what were bis Laws, and wha't were the Godswlüch he enjoined them to wor- íhip; in all whi~h when they had been well infüuél:ed, they reá9~1y ~onfeífed d1artheir Religion ahd Laws were better, and more rational than th!:!it own, and therefore wirh a general confent tbey yielded and fübmitted to t~'lem, and fo weñt: forrh to receive their King witl.1 Joy, and acknowledge theriirel es his obedient Subje&. The Inca leaving Perfons with them· to' ihíl:ruét thertf in bis Idolatry, ánd to tead1 rhem the way of manuring and culriva.ting rheir Land ;· he proce€ded furward to rhat Nation which is called 4Jyiri: but 1 thefé being a íl:urdy and ítub.. born fort of People, were not to be w~.ought' up'órt by perfüafion , and promifesi or by the example of ochers; but obíl:inately perÍt(led in a·refolution to dye in. the defence of .their Liberties; which was a ne'w difficulty and oppofition rhac the Incao ha9 neveras yer en~ouotred. Thus borh fides preparing for War, they carne toan mgagement, .wluch lafted long, there being many killed borh on one fide and the orher; and being at length as it were a drawn Barre}, and rhe Viéto- ry doubtfull, both Arrnies rerreated imo faft places, which they had fortified after their own rnanner1 fallying out ev'ery <lay to Skirmifhes and fingle Combars. The People of the Inca avoided fighting what chey were able, defiring rarher to over- rnme chem with reafons and perfuafions, than by force of Arrns; but che A;viri interpreting this backwardnefs of che Inca to be an effeét of Cowardife became more obíl:inate, and encouraged to prefs harder upon him, fo as almofi to enter bis