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A42257	The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts the first part, treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas, with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries : the second part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards : also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land, of the rise and fall of rebels, and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures / written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt.; Comentarios reales de los Incas. English	Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing G215; ESTC R2511	1,405,751	1,082

so went to Piçarro and informed him of the design of Vela Nunnez to make his escape for which they cut off his Head and hanged and quartered another concerned in the same Plot howsoever it was the common talk that this piece of cruelty was acted at the persuasion onely of Licençiado Carvajal for Piçarro had a kindness for Vela Nunnez whom he loved for his good nature and sweet disposition and never inclined to put him to death And this was the fate of this poor Gentleman by the false accusation of a treacherous fellow who was a Villain of the highest nature Francisco de Carvajal having some days before received intelligence of Piçarro's march to Los Reyes and his orders to meet him there he came to the Charcas with intention to joyn his Forces with him at the City it self Piçarro upon the news of his approach went a great way to meet him and caused a triumphal reception to be made for him as due to a Captain of his merit who had defeated so many Enemies and gained so many Victories Carvajal left Alonso de Mendoça for Governour of the City of Plate under Gonçalo Piçarro and brought with him about a million of pieces of Eight which he had digged from the Mines of Potocsi and from the Indians who are free and not under subjection of any Lord so that Piçarro was now furnished with plenty of money and then Carvajal took his opportunity to press him farther upon the Subject of making himself King repeating the same arguments which he had used in his Letter And here let us leave them their Officers and their Friends and particularly the inhabitants of the several Cities of that Empire employed in keeping all things peaceable and in quiet condition to the security and protection as well of Indians as Spaniards and to the increase and propagation of the Holy Catholick Faith by catechising and preaching to the Natives and to the advantage of Trade and of every private man's concernment which was so diminished and impoverished by the late Wars and Revolutions that no man durst pretend to an Estate for fear that it should be taken away either by the violent force of Tyrants who bare-faced plundred and pillaged all they could seise and lay their hands on or else by those who pretended to borrow it for the service of his Majesty And now as the Proverb is That it is good fishing upon turn of the Tide let us pass over into Spain and let us see what his Imperial Majesty is there designing for reducing to obedience the Rebels in Peru and to set at liberty the Vice-king Blasco Nunnez The End of the Fourth Book Royal Commentaries BOOK V. CHAP. I. Licençiado Pedro de la Gasca is chosen by the Emperour Charles the Fifth to reduce Peru. WHilst matters were transacted in Peru in the manner before related Diego Albarez Cueto and Francisco Maldonado arrived in Spain in Quality of Ambassadours the first of which was sent from the Vice-king and the latter from Gonçalo Piçarro and both went to Valladolid where the Court then resided under the Government of the Prince Don Philip who ruled that Kingdom in the absence of the Emperour his Father who like a Catholick Prince was at that time actually employed in the Wars in Germany against the Lutherans labouring to reduce them to the obedience of the Holy Mother the Church of Rome These Ambassadours did severally inform the Prince's Highness and the Royal Council of the Indies in the best manner they were able of all the transactions and successes which had happened in Peru untill the time of their departure from thence for then the Vice-king was still living The ill news of these great revolutions and troubles of that Kingdom caused many thoughts in the mind of the Prince for remedy of which his Highness summoned a Council of the most wise and grave persons and of most experience then residing at the Court which were the Cardinal Don John Tavera Archbishop of Toledo Cardinal Don Fray Garcia de Loaysa Archbishop of Seville Don Francisco de Baldes President of the Royal Council and Bishop of Ciguença the Duke of Alva the Count of Osorno Francisco de Los Cobos Lord Lieutenant of Leon Don John Cunniga Lord Lieutenant of Castile Ramirez Bishop of Cuenca and President of the King's Bench in Valladolid all the Judges of the Royal Council of the Indies besides several other persons of great Quality all which as well as the Court in general did admire that those Laws and Ordinances which were made and designed for the universal good as well of the Indians as of the Spaniards of Peru should have such a different effect and prove the cause of the destruction both of one and of the other and so to endanger the Kingdom as even to put it in hazard of being alienated from the Crown of the Emperour To prevent which many consultations were held and great debates did arise thereupon some were of opinion that it was to be done onely by force of Arms and that immediately Souldiers were to be sent thither under the command of several experienced Captains but this opinion was opposed by the difficulty of such an enterprise for that the charge of shipping Souldiers Arms Ammunition Horses and Provision would be very great the Voyage was long the Navigation difficult and subject to a thousand hazards being to pass two Seas Other Counsels there were of the more moderate and grave sort of men who were of opinion that since all those disturbances were caused by the rigour of the new Laws and the severe and indiscreet manner of putting them in execution by the Vice-king the remedy thereof ought to be by contrary applications which was that the new Laws should be absolutely abrogated and declared invalid and that to declare and publish them for such a person should be sent of a mild gentle and affable temper● and one of experience of the world of prudence and capable of Government in the times of Peace and yet a Souldier knowing how to manage a War if occasion should require The Person elected for this employment was Licençiado Pedro de la Gasca a Presbyter of the Church and a Member of the General Council of the Inquisition and one in whom all the fore-mentioned qualities did concurr and being thus elected he was offered to his Majesty for his approbation upon receipt of these Letters of recommendation Orders were given in such manner as Gomara writes in the 175th Chapter of his Book which I have thought fit to repeat word for word because he seems to be more plain and clear herein than any other Authour whatsoever When the Emperour saith he had received the news of the great disturbances in Peru and of the imprisonment of Blasco Nunnez he highly resented the insolence of the Judges who durst attempt so daring a piece of injustice against their allegiance and also condemned the proceedings of Gonçalo Piçarro as not tending

their Countrey afforded These passages I received particular information of from good hands which happened in that desart Countrey there were many other accidents of greater importance than these of which not having had particular information I forbear to write them and leave them to the contemplation of the Reader who in his thoughts may imagine the miseries which followed after a cruel Battel in a Countrey disinhabited and in a Desart without relief I shall now return to a description of the place where this Battel was fought and say something of what the three Authours write concerning the exploits which were performed by Garçilasso de la Vega my Lord and Father CHAP. XXIII The Authour confirms the truth of what he hath said and to satisfie those who do not believe him he boasts of what Historians write concerning his Father FRancisco Lopez de Gomara Chap. 182. relating the Battel of Huarina and giving an account of the numbers of those who were killed and wounded saith that Piçarro had been in great danger had not Garçilasso de la Vega lent him his Horse c. Augustine de Carate Book the seventh Chapter the third discoursing of this Battel saith that the Horse seeing the rout which was given to the Foot engaged the Enemy's Horse and in that charge Gonçalo Piçarro had his Horse killed under him without other hurt to himself c. Diego Fernandez also Book the second Chapter the seventh and ninth speaking of this Battel saith as follows Pedro de los Rios and Antonio de Ulloa charged the Horse on the other Wing and engaged not with the Foot as was ordered which they performed with such success that they dismounted the whole party of Piçarro scarce ten men remaining in the Saddle and therewith being as it were assured of Victory they began to rifle their Enemies make them Prisoners and take away their Arms. In this encounter Piçarro himself was dismounted which when Garçilasso observed he alighted from his Horse for he was one of those who continued in the Saddle and lent it to him and helped him to get up Licençiado Cepeda was one of those who had yielded and taken quarter but Hernando Bachicao giving the day for lost passed over to Centeno's party Though all these Authours agree in these particulars concerning my Father yet I am well assured of the truth of what I have wrote and that the Horse which Piçarro received from my Father was not in the heat of the Fight but afterwards but I do not wonder that Historians should be so informed for I remember that some School-fellows of mine who were born of Indian Women told me the same and that they had heard what Diego Fernandez relates how that he alighted and lent Piçarro his Horse and helped him to get up And to undeceive the World in this particular my Father after the Battel of Sacsahuana gave information before the Justice by an Officer of the Exchequer and with the Testimony of twenty two Witnesses all of Centeno's Party who declared that at the time when Piçarro desired my Father's horse there was not one man of Centeno's Army within half a league of him and that the Wound which Piçarro's horse had received was so inconsiderable that notwithstanding the same he might have fought that whole day upon him if occasion had been I have heard it also reported that Piçarro's horse was cut over the hucksons or hamstringed as Ulloa's horse was but it was a false report and information as it was also that the horse recovered and yet dyed twenty two leagues distant from the place of Battel but the truth is the horse dyed for want of diet and good government for though the Farrier who took care of Piçarro stables called Mescua a Native of Guadalaxara with whom I was acquainted did use to give that horse water a little warmed and therein flower of Mayz yet the Groom forgot to give that in charge to the Indian who led the horse well covered and warmly clothed against the excessive colds of that Countrey and the Indian not knowing the rules which the Farrier had given suffered the horse to drink as he was passing a brook as much water as he pleased with which being presently taken with a chilness he fell into a shivering and dyed four leagues from that water Thus the Historians had some grounds to write what they did concerning my Father and I had reason to give a truer information not to excuse my Father in hopes of favour or reward but out of affection to truth it self As to the Offence which is objected against my Lord Garçilasso I have been punished and done penance for it though I committed not the Crime For when I came to petition his Majesty for some reward for the services of my Father and that in consideration thereof the Estate which came by my Mother might be restored to us which by the extinguishment of two Lives was escheated to the King which when I had presented before the Royal Council of the Indies and made it appear how great the services of my Father had been and that those Lords were convinced of the clearness of my pretensions yet Licenciado Lope Garcia de Castro who was afterwards made President of Peru being then in the Chair asked me what reward I could expect the King should give me considering that the services my Father had done for Piçarro at the Battel of Huarina were such as had given him the Victory And when I replyed that the information was absolutely false How said he can you deny that which all Writers of these matters do affirm And therewith they excluded me from all pretensions not onely on account of my Father's services but of my own And though I had many merits on my own score to alledge yet I could not procure to be heard for I could have related how I had served under Don Alonso Fernandez de Cordoua and Figueroa under Marquis de Priego Chief of the family of Aguilar under Don Francisco de Cordoua who is now in Heaven and second Son to that Great Don Martin de Cordoua Count of Alcaudere Lord of Monte-mayor and Captain General of Oran I have also served his Majesty in quality of Captain of four several Companies two of which were in the time of Philip the second of glorious memory and the other two under his brother Don John of Austria now also in Heaven who were pleased as signals of their favours to gratifie me therewith not that I pretend to have merited them from that Prince but onely his Highness observing in me a readiness of mind and affection to serve him accepted my endeavours and was pleased to recommend me to his Brother And yet notwithstanding so prevalent were the prejudices I lay under that I durst neither revive my old pretensions nor alledge my later services for which reasons being cashiered the Army I was so poor and naked in clothes and so indebted that I durst not

to the other Companies to follow the General with whom the President seeming to entertain discourse he accompanied him so far untill he came to the Banks of the River the Bishops soon followed after whilst the Mareschal remained to command the Camp c. Thus far Palentino And here we will leave the President and his Captains on their way and employed in repairing and making their Bridge to relate what Gonçalo Piçarro and his Officers were contriving at the same time and what Francisco de Carvajal was projecting to countermine his Enemies with the Strategems of War in which he was chiefly practised So soon as the Spies brought advice of what was doing at the River of Apurimac Gonçalo Piçarro called a Council of War and communicated to them the News which was brought to him desiring their opinion of what was to be done for defence of the Pass and what advantage might be taken on the Enemy in this present Conjuncture Carvajal who was the most ancient and principal Captain first answered and said Sir This day it is my turn to act nor doth it belong to any person to go upon this exploit but my self No Father replied Piçarro for I have need of your person and counsel to be always near me on all emergencies which may happen we have young and stout Captains with us any of which will be ready and fit for this Work. Carvajal replied again This Enterprise Sir belongs to me and I beseech your Lordship not to deny me the benefit of this good fortune which now offers it self in these latter days of my life whereby I may consummate the last of my atchievements with a glorious and final Victory over all your Enemies which petition if you are pleased to grant me I dare promise and assure you on the saith of a good Souldier within the space of four days to plant the Imperial Crown of this Empire upon your head And since your Lordship hath by good experience proved the extraordinary zeal and passion I have conceived to see you exalted to a degree of Majesty of which I have given sufficient testimonies I beseech your Lordship again and again not to deny me the favour of this request which I onely beg for the greater exaltation of your Lordship my own honour and welfare of your party and well-wishers Piçarro repeated the same words again and told him that he was well enough assured of his good will and affection towards him and would never forget the signal actions he had performed which had maintained and supported him in that station wherein he at present moved And for that reason he could not easily spare him or see him removed at a distance from him who was his Father and his Parent Upon this denial it being put to the question who should command the Party sent upon this exploit John de Acosta was the person who by general consent was chosen for he was not onely a favourite to Piçarro but one as Historians say employed on such like actions as this and perhaps on greater as often as occasion offered for he was esteemed to be stout and brave and indeed he was so But Courage is not the onely endowment required in a Captain but there must also be Prudence and Conduct which were greatly wanting in this Person and though Carvajal was endued with both yet these Counsellours observing the inclinations of Piçarro towards him complied rather with the affections of their Prince than with such measures as agreed best with the necessity of the times Francisco Carvajal seeing that John de Acosta was the person appointed for that exploit he turned towards him and said Captain Since you are so happy as to be employed on this glorious action and to take from me the honour and fame which I should win be pleased to receive these instructions from me which if well observed and executed you will certainly be victorious and return with the Crown of this Empire which I have so often promised to our Lord the Governour The Rules which I would give you are these I would have you depart from hence about nine a Clock in the morning the Bridge I reckon to be about nine leagues from this City and so on a moderate march neither too fast nor too slow you may by two a Clock in the afternoon travel four leagues where you may stay an hour and eat and refresh your selves and your Horses and from thence setting out about three a Clock upon a slow and easie march you may get to the top of the Hill which borders upon the River by nine a Clock at night for I would not have you be there sooner than about that time a little below the top at a league and half distance from the Bridge there is a pleasant Fountain of clear Water at this place eat your Supper and take your repose causing your Bed to be made with four good Quilts and a clean pair of Holland Sheets lay your self thereupon and put a dozen Musquets under your Pillow charged with Powder and without Bullets for you will have no need of shot The President and his Souldiers let them make what haste they can will not be able to reach the Bridge untill such an hour the next day and though all the Devils in Hell assist them they will not be able to lay the first Stranne untill the evening and the second they will endeavour to lay in the night After which they will begin to pass about nine a Clock at night and such as are got over will begin to climb the Hill without Rank or Order having no jealousie or suspicion of an enemy believing it impossible for us to have made so speedy a march thither as we have done Such as have been the first to pass will immediately make to this Fountain with desire to quench their thirst with this pleasant Water and may be come near your Bed about twelve a Clock at night at which time cause the Musquets to be fired which you laid under your Pillow which having done without other delay or so much as seeing the enemy I would have you return to the City and then we will immediately plant the Crown on the Head of our Lord the Governour These Instructions and Rules Carvajal who was wise and experienced in the War gave to Captain John de Acosta who acted so contrary thereunto that he not onely missed of the Crown but lost the lives of all those who belonged to their Party as we shall see hereafter To perform this action two hundred choice Souldiers were detached and mounted on Horse-back and with them thirty Lances and to march with the less incumbrance they were to carry no Baggage but such as was necessary for the Men and Horses and Mules And as to the saying of Carvajal that he should make his Bed with four Quilts and a pair of Holland Sheets and that the Musquets should be charged with Powder onely and without Shot his meaning was

his Feet thus did they contrive and meditate new ways of cruelty Then he dispatched Baltasar Velazquez with another Souldier of note called Pedro del Castillo to go to Lima there to publish and extoll the great services which Basco Godinez and they had done which are the words of Palentino who therewith concludes that Chapter Though Baltasar Velazquez by being absent in the Charcas escaped the punishment which Alonso de Alvarado had designed for him yet he could not avoid a more severe judgment which Heaven had prepared to bring him to his end The news of the Insurrection of Don Sebastian de Castillia ran like lightning through the whole Kingdom to the great trouble and consternation of those who had Estates in the Countrey for these were they who were likely to suffer by all wars and confusions which arise for not onely being Lords of Manors holding many Indians in vassalage they were upon all occasions of this nature put to a vast expence but likewise they held their lives by a hair or thread being ever in danger of being killed in those rebellious tumults by the Souldiers who gaped and longed after the enjoyment of their possessions So soon as this news came to the City of Cozco they put themselves into a posture of defence against the enemy and by consent of the Corporation they elected Diego Maldonado surnamed the Rich to be their General having formerly been the most ancient Governour of any in that City Garçilasso de la Vega and John de Saavedra were made Captains of Horse and John Julio de Hojeda Thomas Vazquez and Antonio de Quinnones and another Citizen whose name I have forgot were made Captains of Foot who presently applied themselves with all diligence to raise Souldiers and herein John Julio de Hojeda was so active that in five days time he marched into the Market-place with three hundred Souldiers after him all very well armed and accoutred which seemed strange in so short a time Three days after this making eight days in all with the former five news came of the death of Don Sebastian which put an end to the War for the present The like happened in the City of Los Reyes as Diego Hernandez mentions Chap. 22. in these words The Court of Justice received intelligence of all the revolutions and tempests which were arisen for at the end of March news came of the death of the General and of the rebellion of Don Sebastian six days after which came news that Egas Guzman was up in Arms in the quarters of Potocsi and in four days more advices were brought of the death and destruction of those rebellious Tyrants for which great rejoycing was made in the City of Lima. Thus far Diego Hernandez We shall now in the following Chapter relate what course and methods were used to bring these men to condign punishment CHAP. XXVIII The Royal Court of Justice constitutes the Marshal Alonso de Alvarado to sit Judge on the Trial of the Rebels Decrees and Orders were issued out by the Judge and others by the Souldiers The Imprisonment of Basco Godinez and of other Souldiers and Men of Estates THE days of joy and festival being past in the City of Los Reyes for the death of Don Sebastian de Castillia and the defeat and destruction of the Rebels in which Ordonno de Valencia whom Diego Hernandez often mentions in his History had proved a principal Instrument though he had acted a double part and been concerned on both sides Howsoever his good fortune guiding him to bring the first news of the death of Don Sebastian the Judges in reward thereof bestowed upon him a division of some Lands with vassalage of Indians in the City of Cozco to the value of five or six thousand pieces of Eight of yearly Revenue where I left him in the enjoyment of the same when I came for Spain But others failed in that design and gained a contrary reward being accused and endicted before a High Court of Justice of which the Marshal Alonso de Alvarado was constituted Lord Chancellour by Commission from the Lords Justices for that he being known to be an upright and a severe person was esteemed a proper Instrument to punish those many outrages murthers and violences which had been committed against God and contrary to the peace and quietness of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Fifth Emperour and King of Spain In like manner for Trial of Offenders in the Charcas John Fernandez the King's Attorney General was ordained and appointed to proceed against and judge those Delinquents Moreover another Commission was privately sealed whereby Alonso de Alvarado was ordained chief Governour and Justiciary of all those Provinces and Captain General of all the Forces with full power to raise Souldiers and to pay them and all necessary Expences of the War out of the Royal Treasury These Commissions were sent to Alvarado in the City of Peace by virtue of which he immediately applied himself to the trial and punishment of the Rebels and in order thereunto he dispatched several persons of entire confidence and integrity into divers parts to seise and apprehend such as had been guilty and were fled to avoid the course of Justice into private corners and concealments amongst the Indians One of those employed upon this message was called John de Henao who pursued them so hard as to search for them with Canoes or Indian Boats in certain little Islands within the Lake of Titicaca and to hunt them amongst the Osiers and Rushes which grew by the Banks of those Islands and having taken above twenty of the most malignant and culpable amongst them he delivered them into the hands of Pedro Enciso then Governour in Chucuytu who having first examined them and taken their Confessions he sent them with a safe Guard to the Marshal It being by this time made known over all the Charcas and Potocsi that the Marshal was by Commission constituted Judge of those Provinces divers Souldiers who were conscious of their own guilt advised Basco Godinez whose crimes they believed were too black to admit of Pardon to be wary and cautious of his own person and to raise Souldiers to resist the Marshal the which as Diego Hernandez says Chapter the twenty second they represented to him as a matter very easie to be effected and that he should cause it to be published abroad that the Marshal and Lorenço de Aldana and Gomez de Alvarado intended to raise Arms and in an arbitrary manner to tyrannize over the Countrey which being once fixed in the minds of the people he might have a very laudable pretence to kill them all which being done there could be none to oppose or confront him Howsoever Basco Godinez was of another opinion for depending much on the service he had done his Majesty in killing Don Sebastian de Castillia and upon the enmity which was between him and John Ramon who accused and complained of him for not standing firm to

Marquis Francisco Piçarro it was in reality worth nothing for that Valley being very pleasant and delightful was divided amongst the Spaniards who were Citizens of Cozco and well cultivated by them and fenced in to make Gardens and Vineyards as it is to this day Wherefore the poor Inca enjoyed nothing more than to have the Title of being Lord of Yuca which notwithstanding he highly esteemed being the most pleasant piece of ground in all the Empire The grant of which was not carried to the Inca by John de Sierra as this Author intimates but was given him at Los Reyes when he personally appeared there to visit the Vice-King and pay the Complement of Obedience But that which was carried by John de Sierra and delivered to the Inca was no other than an Act of Grace and Pardon of all his Crimes without mentioning any particulars or making any promises of support or maintenance for himself or Family or setting out any Lands to make him a Revenue In the following Chapter we will set down every thing methodically as they passed for what we have anticipated in this place is only to shew by another hand what Caution Subtilty Craft and Jealousie the Indian Captains used in their Treaties before they would adventure to commit their Prince into the power of the Spaniards CHAP. X. The Governours of the Prince consult the several Prophesies and Prognostications which were made concerning the event of their Prince's departure from the Mountains Diverse Opinions arise thereupon the Inca resolves to go he comes to Los Reyes where he is received by the Vice-King The answer which the Inca made when the Instrument was delivered to him which allotted and secured a maintenance to him THE Captains and Tutors of the Inca continued their Debates and Consultations concerning the Surrender of their Prince into the hands of the Spaniards And for better assurance therein they inspected the Entrails of the Beasts which they offered in Sacrifice and observed the flying of Birds by Day and those of the Night they looked on the Skye to see whether it were thick or cloudy or whether the Sun were bright and clear without Mists or Clouds which covered it and accordingly they made their Prognostications of good or bad Fortune They made no enquiries of the Devil because as we have said before all the Oracles of that Country ceased and became dumb so soon as the Sacraments of our Holy Mother the Church of Rome entered into these Dominions And tho' all the Observations made seemed good Omens and portended happy success yet the Captains were divided in their Opinions Some said that it was sit for their Prince to appear publickly and in the Eyes of his People to whom nothing could be so pleasant and acceptable as the presence of his Person Others said that there was no reason to expect the restauration of their Prince for the Inca was already dispossessed of his Empire and the same divided amongst the Spaniards and proportioned by Pravinces and Plantations of which there was no hopes ever to see a restitution And in such a condition as this a Prince disinherited and divested of all his Power and Riches would make such a poor figure before his People as would give them Subject rather of Sorrow than of Joy at his presence And tho' the Vice-King promised to make him an allowance wherewith honourably to support himself and Family yet not having allotted the Provinces nor named the parts from whence such Revenue is to arise it looks as if he intended to feed him with empty words without any real or substantial performances and in case when an allowance is assigned which doth not prove agreeable to the Quality of the Prince he had lived a more happy Exile within these Mountains than exposed abroad to Misery and Scorn But what security have you that these Spaniards will not deal with this Prince as they sometime did with his Father whom instead of returning him all the acknowledgments which a Soul endued with Humanity and Reason was capable to render they barbarously killed with the stroak of a Bowl upon his Head whilest he endeavoured to divertise and solace them a that Game in their Solitude and retirement with him where he concealed and secured them from the hands of their Enemies Nor is it so long since the time of Atahualpa but that we may remember how they strangled him against the Faith and Articles of Peace which were made with them having thereby given us a clear Evidence how far their Honesty and Promises extend These and other Examples of the faithless and treacherous performances used by the Spaniards towards the Caciques and other Indians of Principal Note were particularly called to mind and related the which for brevity sake we omit And afterwards the two Opinions with the Arguments on each side being laid before the Prince he inclined to the advice of remaining in his Station and not intrusting his Person to the Honesty and Mercy of the Spaniards and herein he was more strongly confirmed when he reflected on the Fate of his Father and His Uncle Atahualpa And then it was what Palentino saith before that the Prince ordered the Letters and Presents and Writings to be returned to the Vice-King and to tell him That as he might do his own will and pleasure so he who was the Inca was free and independant of any and so would continue But whereas our Lord God had out of his infinite goodness and mercy determined that that Prince his Wife and Children and Family should be admitted into the Bosom of our Mother the Roman Catholick Church he so governed the Heart of this Prince that notwithstanding all the Affrightments and Apprehensions he conceived of incurring the like Fate with his Ancestors he yet in a short time changed his mind and resolved to throw himself and his Good Fortune on the Faithfulness and good Nature of the Spaniards The which Palentino confirms and says That after John Sierra and the others were departed the Inca dispatched two Indians after them with Orders to cause them to return and give up the Commission which was delivered to them Thus did this matter pass as this Author relates tho' with some difference in respect to time and the method of the several proceedings I for my part set them down in that Form as they succeeded according as they were often related to my Mother by our Indian Kindred who came out with the Prince and made this matter the Subject of their discourse at the time of their Visits But to be short in this Story the Prince having with a little time abated his choller which the memory of his Father and Uncle had raised in him he declared his resolution to visit the Vice-King who perhaps might thereby be inclined to protect and favour his Royal Stock Howsoever the Captains desired and importuned him to be more cautious and kind to himself than to expose his life and safety to