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. B OOK. VII. wor.e a Pad or Pannel to keep them from galling with the weight, and at every 200 paces they were relieved ~y a frefh Company.Ahd he re we may leave the Reader to confider, with how much troubl e aod labour thefe poor lndians carried thefe weighty Burdens over thofe Rocky aod Mountainous w.ays which are in my Country ; and over afcents, and deícents of three and four Leagues long, and fo fteep, that many .Spaniards, whom l have feen travelling, have for eafe of ~heir Horfes and Mules, alighced off frorn their backs, efpecially at a defcen.t, Vo!hich are many times fo freep that a man cannot fit in his Saddle, but ic will be on the horfe.:neck, notwichftanding the Crupper, which often breaks : and fuch kind of way as this we have from f2..uitu to Coz.co, which are 500 Leagues diftant; bm: from Coz.co to the Charcas the way is more plea~ fant; being for th¡,: moft pare a plain Countrey. And hereby we may underftand, that, what Palentino faith concernfog the Artíllery which Felipe de Mendofa brought into the Parade, and fired íeveral times, was .father to !peak fine things, as in a Romance, ano to ernbellifh his Hiftory, than that any fuch thing was really aél:ed, or put ioto praétice ; as we have faid before. His Majefties Army .marched out, and encamped about. a League from the City, where they con~inued about five days to put all, things in a readinefs, and make Provifionsof every thing they ftood in need; and until t.tíe Indi1ms of the neighbouring Places t:ould bring in the Viél:uals and Stores they had ga- thered; there was need of Horfe: shoes and other Iron-works; and befare the one could be forged, and the other got together, time was required: And this certainly was the rea fon that decained che Army fo many days; and not what · our Author alledges, Chapter the 5oth. in thefe rds, The Camp, faith he, remained in the Salinas five or fix days, in expe n of Jndians to carry the Baggage ; but they e.ame not, but rather feveral of them fled to their own Homes; and becaufe they belonged to Planters, who had their Eftates and Lands near to Coz.ca, iE was fufpeéled that they were fentaway by order of their Mafrers~ 1 am croubled to find chis, and fuch like Paffages in the Hiftory of1this Author, which argues fome kind of PaCiion· or Pique he had againíl: the lnhabitants of Co .t.co, - whom·he frequently blames on all occafions, in mat- ters whereof they ne yer w ere guilty: And indeed it were more reafonable to believe, that thefe Citizens, and Men of Eftates, Jhould contribute ali tbey were able to putan end to this War,. ratber than to do any aél which migbt be a means to protraél: and hinder the final determination óf it; nor coúld it be ro the advantage of the f;:icizens , to be accell'ory to any Aét (fuch as fending away tbe Jndians) which migbt occalion the ftay of the A~my in parts fo near the City, from which they could not expeá other than troubles, perpetua! moleftations, and damages t~ their Eftates, during ali the time of their quarters in tliat place.. And moreover this Author feems to co.ntradiél: himfelf, in faying, that che Army was detained in expeél:ation of lndians to carry their Baggage, and for want of them they could not proceeed; and then afterwar<is, he faith, that many of themfled away, and yet the Army raifed their Camp, aud departcd without tbem: But the truth of what pafied in this·particular, was this ; . That, by order of the General~ manyof the Indian~ who were ;:ippointed to carry Burdens were difmift, by reafon that the way af-. ~erwards being plain and without Rocks, or Monntains, ·orhollow Cavities, they íl:ood not in need of the Service of fo many lndians a~ formerly, and t herefore difcharged fev~raJ of them·as ufelefs and cµmberfom to the Camp. In fin e, the Army, afcer five days fray, departed from their Quarters near the City, and marcbe<l in good Order, and always in a readinefs to engage the Enern y, in cafe they fhould be attacked by them in any of thofe narrow pafia- gi;:s which are between the City anq f!!!_equefana : But the Rebels had another Game to play, fufferi11g tbem to pafs quietly and undifrurbed, until they carne to ~he Peap:le called Pucar a., a bout forty Leagues diftant from Coz.co, onlythey fo und themfelves .fom.eth i.ng diftrefied for want of Pro:vifions, becaufe the Negm, wfio were Sould iers to the Rebels, having divided themfelves into t\'.IO bands on both fides of the Road, had droven ali the Cattel away, and taken ali the Proy; ilion,s with them that they could find, leaving nothing behind for fobli,Ltance of bis Majefries Artny. And now the Scouts of both the parties met each with th.e other, and yet no -Sk!rmifbes, or Encoun- t crs pa,lfrd between them ; only the jufticcs received Intelligence, that the Re beis