+28 A M ET^I C A. Chap. IV. 



Habits, ftrew'd the Ways with Flowers, Danc'd a ftrange Dance nam/d Cayo, 

 Singing feveral Songs. Perfons ..of Q^Uty, : put Golden Plates about their Knees, 

 as the common People painted them with divers Colours. In the eighth Moncth 

 Chahua they kept the high Feaft Huarqui, on which they Offer'd a hundred grey 

 Sheep ; the like number, but of a Chefnut colour, they Offer'd the following 

 Moneth lupaauis, befides a thoufand Cities, that the Air, Water, or Sun, might not 

 ipoil their Plants. Their Feaft Situa they kept on the tenth Moneth (oyaraymi after 

 this manner : They gather'd all together onthefirft day before the Moon rofe, 

 which no fooncr appear'd, but they made a terrible noife, beat one another with 

 lighted Torches, then wafli'd the Dirt from their Bodies, and made themfelves 

 Drunk for four Days together. The eleventh Moneth Armaraimi, was nam'd fun- 

 chaiquis, from the Feaft they kept therein, on which (befides the ufual Offerings of 

 eight hundred Sheep) they ty'd a black Sheep to a Poft without Meat, till fuch 

 time as there fell ftoreofDew. Their Feaft call'd ^aymicantara^aiaMis, was kept 

 in the laft Moneth Jyamara, on which their Youth were bor'd through the Ears. 

 Their Fca.Q Amongft the high Feafts which were kept on great occafions, the chiefeft was 1tri % 

 againft which they all made new Clothes after a peculiar fafliion, wearing their 

 Cloaks muffled about their Heads 5 in which manner they walked leifurely a whole 

 Day and a Night . during which time none durft either Eat or Drink, or open his 

 Eyes : But after this ferious Proceflioning follow'd four days of extravagancy, as 

 Drinking, Dancing, and the like. In their Dances, which were to the found of 

 Drums, Pipes, and Horns, they imitated all manner of Trades by ftrange motions 

 of their Bodies, befides divers other Frolicksand May*games which they us'd at 

 fuch times of Mirth and Feftivity : But fince the Spaniards conquer'd Peru, all thefe 

 Heathenifh Cuftoms have been laid afide. 

 I«i of the* As t0 ^ e P ro gnoftications and Fore-runners of thedeftru&ion of the old Empire 

 o! d pfrXe- of ^"j ic is reported, that Guaynacava, Father of the laft King Attabaliba,\y\ng on his 

 told. Deathbed in Quito, faid to his Princes, This %ealm, atprefent rats' d to the higheft top of 



Eniinency, is haflning towards its %uine ; and though our Kingdom remain as yet freee from 

 foreign hivafion, the Countreys round about are already conquer d and in Slavery : T\ie Gods 

 have call'd ft range People from unknown Regions, who by degrees will reach us alfo. With me, 

 Ttfho am the twelfth Inga, dies the Dominion of the mighty Peru. J People of other Fafl)'wns 

 and 1{eligion willfnbvert our Religion, Laws and Government, and bring us undct'fnbjeclion 

 to them. There were alfo Signs and Prodigies that portended the Diflolution of this 

 Empire - amongft the reft a greatEruption in the Province of Taeinga, which rend- 

 fog the Earth afunder vomited up Flames of Fire-nor was it long e're they were ful* 

 filVd,for whileft the Peruvians were making of Offerings toViracocha for the delivery 

 of their imprifon'd King Huafcar^ews was brought to Cufco of Attabaliba's being ta* 

 ken 5 the Particulars whereof,with other Matters touching the Conqueft of this King- 

 dom by the Spaniards, and how they pillag'd the Countrey, murder'd the Inhabi- 

 tants, and enrich'd themfelves with their ineftimable Treafures, fhalf in order be 

 related. 



By whom The firft that gave the Spaniards notice of Peru, was an Indian Prince call'd Pan- 



Peru was hrft 1 1 • f 



difcover'd to gumaco, who having been taken Prifoner, inform'd FafauezNunnez of the abundance 



the SfaWM'ds Ci*>\\lc"\\ m \ it 



ot Gold and biiver which was to be had there, who refolv'd to venture through a 

 thoufand Dangers into the South Sea. After which Francif coPizjrro, Ferdinand de Lugue, 

 and Diego de Jlmagro, confulted upon this great Defign, Anno 1525. Pizarrpts being 

 order'd to Sail before with a Ship carrying a hundred and fourteen Men, and Jl- 

 magro to follow with a Veflel carryirfg feventy Men, whileft De Ltigue ftaid to ma- 

 nage the Affairs at home. Fifty Leagues Southward from Panama fPiz&rm found a 



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