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And in truth, if we had given them good example, and such LlB - 

 as we ought, these Indians had well applied it, in saying 

 they were men sent from God. It is a thing very well 

 worthy of consideration, how the greatnesse and providence 

 of God, disposed of the entry of our men at Peru, which 

 had beene impossible, were not the dissention of the two 

 brethren and their partisans, and the great opinion they 

 hadde of Christians, as of men sent from heaven, bound 

 (by the taking of the Indians conn trey) to labour to winno 

 soules vnto Almightio God. 



CHAP. xxui. Of the last Successors Yncas. 



The rest of this subiect is handled at large by the Spanish 

 Writers in the histories of the Indies, and for that it is not 

 my purpose, I will speake only of the succession of the 

 Yncas. Atahualpa being dead in Caxamarca, and Huascar 

 in Cusco, and Francisco Pizarro with his people having seised 

 on the real me, Mancocapa, sonne to Guaynacapa, besieged 

 them in Cusco very straightly ; but in the end he abandoned 

 the whole countrey, and retired himselfe to Vilca-bamba, 

 where he kept himselfe in the mountaines, by reason of the 

 rough and difficult access, and there the successors Yncas 

 remained, vntill Amaru, who was taken and executed in the 

 market place of Cusco, to the Indians incredible griefe and 

 sorrow, seeing iustice doone vpon him publiquely whome 

 they helde for their Lorde. 1 After which time, they im 

 prisoned others of the lineage of these Yncas. I have 

 knowne Don Carlos, grand-childe to Guaynacapa, and sou 

 to Paullu, who was baptized, and alwayes favoured the 

 Spaniards against Mancocapa his brother. When the Mar 

 quis of Caiiete governed in this countrey, Sayri Tupac Ynca, 



1 Tupac Amaru, the last Ynca, was beheaded by order of the Viceroy 

 Toledo in 1571. 



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