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 VI. R~a{ Commentarie1. fcandalous Speeches were vented againíl: the 0overnment, that it had been well if Laws had been made ro refirain the exceíles aod libeny of malitious and viru-. ient Tongues. , . . In the month of Ofiober of the farne year (as Diego Hernande<:. faich) BafeoGoái- ne<:. was charged ;;nd arraigned of many heirious ana crying offences; which are fpecified in the Sentence paífed on him, for which he was condernned ro be drawri and quartered. And it is certaih that the Maríhal .was troub!ed that he could not meet with Baltafar Vefa~quez. (who was ·gcine to Lima) for had he been found he ,would have incurred che farne puniíhrnent that Godinn had dene, &c. The de- claration of the Crimes of Bafeo Godinez. wére tontained in a few .words; procJal: m'ed by the Executioner; which v;ere cbefe; Thu man having bún a Traitour tiJ God, to hu King, and hu Fricnds, ú fcntenced to be dr-airn and q uarter ed. Tbe which faying is fo ful! and pithy, chac ic cdntains as muchas can be fa.id or wroce'in ma: ny Chapters. And thus did the fevericy of J ufüce pafs on the Offenders, untill cowards che end of November (as we have faid ; ) when news cóming of a new Re- bellion raifed by Francifco Her;andc<:. Giron, a íl:op' w:i.s giyen to farther proceedings again!l rhe refr of che imprifoned Souldiers : which feemed to happen opporcune- ly, that che fear of a fecond Rebellion might moderare and allay che fevericy ex: ercifed againft the firfr. • The Indians of Com prognofücated this Rebellion openly an.d loudly in che ·screets, as I heard and faw my felf: For d1e Eve before the Fefhval of the mofr Holy Sacramenc, I being then a·youth, wenc out co fee how the two Marker- . places of the ,City were adorned; for at that time che Proceffion paífed through no other Streets but thofe; chough fince that time, as I am told, the perambula- tion is double as far as before. And being then ar che córner of rhe great Chapel of our Lady of the Maeeds, abour an hour or rwo before day, 1 faw a Cornee darc from the Eaíl: Ctde of the Cicy towards che Mountains of ehe Antü, fo greac and clear that it enlighcned all places rnund with more fplendour than a full Moori at midnight. les motion was direétly downwards, irs form was globular, and ics· dimenfion as bigas a large Tower 5 and coming near the ground, ir divided inco feveral fparks and fireams of fire ; and was accompanied wich a Thunder fo low and near as firuck many deaf with the clap, and ran from Eaíl: to Weíl:: which when che Jndians heard and faw, they all cried out with ene voicc~, Auca, Auca; Auc11, wbich figrtifies in their Language, as muchas to fay, 'ljrant; Traito11r, Jlehel; and every thing that may be amibuted t0 a violen~ and bloucly Traicour, as wé have before mentioned. This happened on the ninereenth of {íme in che yeat • H 3. when the Feaíl: of our Lord was celebrated; and this prognoíl:icacion whicH the Indians made, was accomplifhed on the thirteemh of Novembcr in che fame year, when Franci[co Hr:rnandn Giron began á Rebellion, whkh we íhall relate ld the following Book , . The E~ul e[ the Sixth 8004: • Royál ..