Being brought before the Ynca, they threw themselves on the ground and adored him, with great acclamations, as a child of the Sun. The common people having done this, the Curacas arrived, and with the veneration that they are accustomed to show, addressed the Ynca thus—“We entreat your majesty to pardon these people, and if it is desirable that more should die, we shall consider our own deaths to be fortunate if these soldiers can be spared, for we gave them a bad example in resisting the Ynca.” They also prayed for pardon for the women, old men, and children, who had committed no crime. The chiefs said that they alone were criminal, and that, therefore, they should atone for all.

The Ynca received them, seated on his chair, and surrounded by his warriors; and having heard the address of the Curacas, he ordered that their hands should be untied, and the ropes removed from their necks, in token of the pardon that he had granted them. He then, with kind words, told them that he had not come to take their lives and property, but to do them good, to teach them to lead reasonable lives according to the law of nature, and, abandoning idols, to worship the Sun as god, to whom they were indebted for this forgiveness. He then granted their lands and vassals to them afresh, without other condition than that they should rule beneficently.