History of the Inca Empire by Bernabe Cobo

Author:Bernabe Cobo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press

Chapter 13: Of the rest of Pachacutic’s victories

Pachacutic moved ahead with his banners along the road through Chinchaysuyu, and he subjugated the province of Vilcas and those of the Soras and the Lucanas with little effort, owing to the powerful army he brought, which no nation had sufficient forces to resist. But, when he arrived at Guamanga [Ayacucho], he found the natives of the region armed and ready to defend themselves, because they were a very warlike and unruly people, and they had confidence not so much in the number of their combatants, which was inferior to that of the Inca, as in a naturally well defended fortress on a rocky hill, where they had taken refuge. The Inca laid siege on them, and he kept them under great pressure for a long time, for he was very desirous of gaining dominion over such a rich and fertile province, and especially so as not to lose one bit of the reputation he had earned on his past undertakings.

The besieged experienced great difficulties in this war; to avoid losing their freedom, they constantly suffered extreme hunger and a thousand other misfortunes; at last, unable to do anything else, they were forced to surrender and yield obedience to the Inca, who, having subjugated this province, got no resistance from surrounding towns such as those of the Chocorbo, Angará, and Parinacocha. But the nation of the Huanca, native to the Valley of Juaja, defended themselves at first bravely; and although there were more than thirty thousand of them, in the end they were defeated and subjugated. With such a fortunate series of victories, Pachacutic did not put aside his arms, nor did he stop until he reached the province of Tumibamba, which marked the farthermost limits and boundaries of his empire after he had incorporated into it all the provinces that come before there on the road through the sierra, such as Guarochiri, Canta, Tarama, Chinchacocha, Cajatambo, Bonbon, Conchucos, Cajamarca, and others.

The Inca did not let much time pass before he set out on another expedition on the road through Condesuyo, in order to conquer the provinces of the seacoast bordering on those that he had won in the sierra. The Inca went himself up to the edge of the llanos, and, without descending to the hot land of the seacoast, he sent one of his brothers as commander with thirty thousand soldiers, and he kept another thirty thousand with him in reserve, so he could exchange them every two months, because the coastal lands were unhealthy for the people of the sierra.

Many valleys of the coast gave up peacefully, but it was necessary to make war on others; soon along the coast all of the provinces were conquered that are included today in the Diocese of Arequipa from Tarapacá up to Hacarí, which is close to two hundred leagues of coast. As the Inca’s troops entered what is now this Archbishopric of Lima, peace was offered to him by the valleys of

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