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.

BooK n. Royal Commentaries. 543 in favour of the Spani11rdJ, .:Where was .rnoít danger, ·ancd wbe're the ln~ia?ts fpenr tbe nercenefs pt Jtheir Fury. · And indeed rhe Danger was fo grear,. tbar in the ·füft eleven ,oil •twdv,e_Days. of the Siege, rhe Spaniards were fo har:affed and tired out, as·wel!JH-Orfe as Foot, by the continua! Skirrniíhes in •which they were en- ga:ged, an~ ' fo want of Ptoviftons, that they were reduced :ro· che lafü exrrerni- . cy; for by this time thirry Chrifüans were killed, .a,nd .alrnofl all ..wounded;- without Remedies or Salves for their Cure; fo rhar in a few days not being able longer to hold out, chey t ll expeéted ro perifh , having no hopes of ltelief or Succour from other places, or rneans, than onely from Heaven, ro which they lifte(f üp therrGíes-, and offered theii.· aailf Prayers, begging tñe Merey and _ Detence of God, and the Imerceffion and Proteétion of che ever bleffed Virgin Mary. The Indians having obferve<[, that rhe Nig}¡r 1 when they bumed all the Town.i yet the Gallery in which tbe-spaniards were·quártered íl:ill rernained untol)ched by rhe Flames, wherefore they artempted to bum that alfo, ( and might eafily per- form it, in regard rhere was none to make Head, or Oppofüion to prevenr them,) anel fbr fevel-al Days and Nights, at all hciú!'S, they cbntinually put .fire to ir, bue it would not bum; which the Jndians much adrmiring, .faid, : That th~ Fire had lott irs Force aríd Virme, and éould nor confüm·e 1 that Houfe m which the Vira- cochao had lived and quartered. · At lengrh the Spaniards found rh,emfefves fo hard put to it, .and fo ailililed on all ftdes, that they refolved to put it to the ilfue of a Batrel , and rather dye fighting, with their Arms in their Hands, than linger oué a miferable Death, and at length periíh with Famine or fainrnefs, permitting rhe &iemy famcly to ·cunheir trhroats, afternheythad no farther Force ór Spii-iffo ré1Hl:thti:m:;1,, ·'-' ', ~Jít · ' 1; __ ,;,, 1t " 1 .,_,.. , Ji Havingihus refolved; théy confelfed 'their í'ins to1threel=lrieíls,' .that were iwith tllliem, and for want of time;fuch as could ·not, confeffedwne,to che óther.,. and áUi.called,upon the Name.of ,God, and opon thofe Saines ro, which.- they had de- 'lOted tbemfulves·;- and 'being tBU"S prepared to oye like €hrifüans,.,fo ,fo0n as ir · w.aslday·;. ~beilnditms, whoTW.ere ·á thoufand 'to one, being 'aíhamed co be fü long oppófed' by· fuch athandfull ·of Men, aífailéd ihé Spaniards «•ith cheir ,Dfua·l Fury; _ mfolving noclí!o qui_t or remit · the Batee!, uncill they-had toca~ .defüXiiyed·chem 7 cwd 1thecSJ<aniard/,· on the contra,ry, wirh loud ~ries calling µpon the .Name of tMíV:i1;gin;r0ma th€ Apoftle St:'f ames, their Cnampion, maiptained1he Fighrwirh ~hcBc~folrlti@~.i t:hat che Slaughtef. w~s gre¡it on b~th. ft?és, ,and rnany · fPaniatd1 wóunded. f1At lall, afee~ five .hours F1ght, che ChriíhanS'.:became fo weary, and tlulgiHt>rfes fu: í~ht with ·the Engagernent of rhat Day; ·tbat they expeéted no- ming_léfS-tharvD;ach.- The Fainmefs and Relaxation oFthe Spaniards ,gave,new G:i$gerro:~he 1Jña'iian~ to reinforce and. renew che Fight".for, iPrince Manco Inca óbfewingir tllr~: Baffages of rhe Battel from_an 'high place, animared híS 'People, áaHing ·up-0:>n chem iby .the Names of their fevetal Provinces, and inciting them to· ~w ~e'rF.ig~t~r:lDéing, . as !~.were, certain l ~ir~ .che Succ~ o~ díat Day to h~­ rover h1s Emp.ihl:- 1 .,When1tirn fudden, and·mth1s ,Extremity., tt pleafed G©d to e,wn .tbeCaufti:J>f.his faiéhfull :People, by rfending to their ·AffiC..ence the blelfed Apoíl:le Sr. 'james, the Champion and Proteétour of Spain, who viíibly appeared. bJ:Dm , tü.I rhei Sp.A'niards, · and~.fhe Jndidns, mount'ed ·on .a White Horfe, 'carrying a T.arger,.,wifh inHedign of bis Military Order rhereon inforlibecl , and in his Rigbt Halid a$woréJ;j,wbich¡ by. the ·gliíl:ering of it, Jeerned like Lightning. · -The In- f.#.41Y, greatly.'aíi&ighted to lfee chis new Cavalier enter the Lifis, a~keé:l one che other ,, whdt-1i'ir;(cocha that iWas, whicb carrie_eL che Yllápa·; in bis Hand; which W'E>rd dignifies.Thunder, and' hightning, and the Thunderbolt - Wherefoever chis ne~ Ca'valiet';.áífailed the lndiaris, ·they ran like Meo amazed, trampling ·one upon they orher,, aod on:.Mfat pare foe,ver the Jndians áffaulted the Chrifüans, che Saint iroti;i~díacely iap~red in ti~ Ft<lmt, to fuccour and defend them from the Indians, wb~¡·¡affrighteél JÍ\ 1 ath che Apparition,, fled ._an:d· forfook che Battel; and the 'Spa- njJ!r{)s berewi&i takiAg coúrage.;·· 1:enewed <_the -.Fighr-, and rkjlled an innumerable rwmbett· ofitbedlhcimies, 1who1ilieing poífüfed \vith a (ear, ran away, and for- f~~k thce.Bat\eldJ IÍ .• "'ni '~¡;!r.¡ • . . . . - . , • r ' -bnu~ w~rle rhtLGh11iíl:¡ans.1<lcliv.ered · tbis day by rhis bleffed Apoíl:le¡ .arnd the Vi<frory wrefied out of the Hands of che lnfidels; the fame was ~lie Succefs of t~day· foJlowm~,dlrichá!S eften as.·the Jndi'ans1 adventured to figh_t; for fo foon a~ }bey bega~ttl'.> ~dgagé; the.y.1bec;,amé "amazed with .c<imfuGon, and not knowing . . where