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.

Roya! Commentarie.r. BooK II. of tbis World rich and powerfull : the trucb of whicb hach been proved at large by whac hach preceded. In fine therefore, (as.we have faid) this great Hero was fl:rangled in Prifon, which was fufficient tO hav e made an end of bim; bue to affeét the minds of chofe who faw bim wich greacer compaffion and forrow, bis Body was brought forch inca che Market-place, and his Throat cut there; he had paífed che Ag€ of fevemy fiv~ years, and his Healrh was fo broken and infirm, chac had they not hafl:ned his Death, he could not have lived much longer. le is faid, that his Ene- mies, to íhew their great abhorrence and deteíl:ation of him, had killed him twice. The Executioner in privilege of his Office, and as bis Fees, íl:ripped him o[ his Cloaths, :rnd would alfo have taI<en his Shirt bad ic been fuffered : And in thiscondition he lay expofed in the Market-place, the greateíl: pare of che day, neither friend or enemy daring to difpofe ocherwife of his Corpfe; for his friends, who were vanquiíl1ed, and in cufl:ody, could not doe it ; and his enemies, t'hough touched wich fome fenfe of grief and compaffion, duríl: not advenwre upon an Aétion which might adminifter occafion of publick fcandal. Whence we may fee che falfenefs of chis World, and how ill it rewards rhe worrhy Aétions of deferving Men. · . Ar le:igch, towards the Evening, a poor Negro, who h<td been che Slave of the decea fed, carne and brought a courfe Sheet, whicb w:is bis own, or which he had begged; and with che help of fome I ndian1, who had been tbe Servams of Almagro, they wrapped che Body cherein , and carried ic t0 be encerred in che Clmrch of che Merced1, where che Fnar , according co cheir accuíl:omary Aéts of Charicy, buried ic wich many Tears in a hapel which is under r11e High Alear. Thus ended chat Great Don Diego da A lmtt%ro, wl]o lmh left noching more Me, morable of bis Life, chan his great Aétions ; and of his Deatb, than grief and lamenracions for it: che which, as ic was a fore-runner of tbe like face of che Marquis Pif flrro , fo che manner of his Death was agreeable thereunco, and rnay cherewich be compared in ali the circumfl:ances chereof, as will appear by cha~ which follows ; chac fo chefe two Companions, who had an equal íllare in the Conqueíl: and Government of this greacand rich Empire of Peru, rnay alfo be equalized in che manner of cheir Deachs. CH. A P.