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.

748' ,··' .. ~. ~ Royal Comme11taries. BooK IV. Sir, faid he, A f'ice-kjng hath lmn kjlfed ín battél, and hif Real cut off by m , qnd publicklJ placed on the common Gib6et, , After we have waged War ,again.ft the Royal Stan- dard of hú Maje.fty, and have been the caufe of the e/fu.fion o/ fo much bl ou~ , and com-: mitted fo many fPoils, and robberies , and OHtrages 11pon t~e ffople; what place. can we ex- fpeéf for merey and pardon frorn_ th~ King ? Nay ~ if we fhould com~ off _upon Artic/es of 11greement, and that you could 1uflifi1 JOHr f:!J, 11nd fl;ew IU clear an mn ocence tf1Jhe child which fuckJ at the breaft; yet, what fecunty can there be to re/7 on the mo.ft folemn vows 1tnd promifes that can be made JOH? Wherefore, I conciude, that you have no fefety but by takjng upon you the authority of a King, by whichyou wíll better {ecure your government than by expeflations _to receive it from another hand. Plant tke Crown upon your own head~ and divide the Lands amongft your own friends and creatures : ~ hat which the King, hath granted for two lives one{J, do you give them the fee-fimple and inheritance.of, w~th 'lítles of Dukp, Marquef{es, and Ear!s , IU u Hftuil in al/ the Kin gdoms of the W orld, who will be thereby engaged to defend you, whilft they fight in defence of their own Eftatu and Fortunes. Tou may 11/fo create new Orders of Knighthood, calling 'them with the Jame names IU are 11fetl in Spain , or by the denomination of other SaintJ to whom you are more particular/y devoted, andyou m19 frame other Badges 114 are moft agruable to JOllr fancy 7 and fuch Myou fhall mak! Knights of the Habit, you may ajfign them Rents and Penjions to live upon and enjoy for a term of Jife , IU u commo1: every where to the Mi!itary Orders. In thú manneryou will engage al/ the Gentry and Nobi/ity of the Spaniards, who rejide in this Empire, to your _ry, and draw thofe in who are averfe. And to bring the Indi- ans in likfwifa to your '(ervice and devotion , and to dye for you , M t hey do f or their own natural Prince. 1 wou!d perf11ade you to m11rry that Princefs which is neare.ft of bloud to the Royal Family : in order whereunto, 1 would have .JOH {tnd Ambaf{1 1do11rs t o rhe Moun· tains, where the Inca, who is Heir to thiJ Empire, doth now rejide; defiring him to quit his folitary habitation, that fo )OH may rcftore him to the Majefly and Grandure of his Empire 5 and that he would with his own hand give his Sifter or Daughter in marriage to you. ]t is not to be doubted. but that he will be infinitely prolfd and ovcrjoytd with thi1 A lli11nce : and fuch will be the univerfal fatiJjaflion and contentment of his Subjefls in reftoring their Inca to his poJ:Per and dominion, that they will chearful!J obey what fervil Oflices foever their Incajhal/ command them for your fervice; M tbe carriage ofyour provifions, depo- pulating Towns where your Enemies are to pajs , makjng ways and rMds where you /hall di- reEf. And, in fine, you will hereby engage al! the lndians to be of your fide : for it wou!d be a great inconvenieNce to an Enemy to want people to carry their baggage, withont which tbey can [caree pafs in the Countrey. And M to rhe Inca, he will content himfe!f with the bare name and title of a King; and you many fujfer his Subje&fJ to obey him in the times of peace, M they did his Anceftours in former ages. And M to your fe!f, You andyour Mi- nifters and Captains may rule and govern the Spaniards, 1md require the Inca, when occa- Jion ferves, to command his Indians to perform fuch and fuch fervices M you fhal/ appoint; and by thefe means you wi/I fec11re them to be faithfull to you, and tngage them to be true 1tnd not fa/fe, and Spyes, IU they have been to bórh jidn. ' Moreover, you will by this friendfhip of the l(\ca 11mafs All the Gold and Si/ver that the Indians dig throughout the Empire, and feeing they efteem not of it AJ riches or -treafure, they will, in re'ITard of the reftauration of their Prince and on the fcore of your a!liance with them, be ea.fil) induced to difcover to you al/ the treafKre which hath been hidden by their An- ceftours : which wil/ amount to that 11aft riches, that ( iU the f19ing i1 ) ;ou may there~ with purchafe the whole World, in cafe you are ambitiom to be the {ole Monarch of it. And /et not that be any f cruple to you , that you hereby ufurp on the dominion of the King of Spain ; for when you are a King ( 1U the faying is) )OH can doe no wrong. This Coun- trey did once belong to the lnca's , who were the natural Princes fhereof, fa that it properl.J belongs to them ; and if a)?J right may be cl11imed on the fcore of Conqueft, it belongs tiot to the King of Caíl:ile, but to you and yottr Brothers , -who gained it at yo11r own expence 11nd with hardfhips and ha~ards ofyour Lives. ' And now therefore to reftore again the Government to the Inca, the natural Lord rhere· of, it is a piece of generofity fottnded on the Law of Nature ; and therehy alfo you wil/ doe right toyour felf, for it is not reafan that you who are the Conquerour of 1111 Empire jhould be a SlAVe and Subje[f in it; or that he, who by the valour of his Arme hath made him- felf a King, jhould out of a meannefs arrd pufillanimity of fpirit render him(e!f a Vaf{al or a Sttbjefl in it. The fuccefs of a/l th_efo Aéfions conjifts in makjng good the {irft fteps And gradations to it; And therefore 1 befeech you f erioufly to confider of what 1 have propofad, which, if well purfaed, wil! íertain{J tend to J'ONr eftablifhmen; in this Empire, 11nd mak..,e