The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

\ . l · Royal Cotnmentaries. ground was íl:ohy, tl1ey gathered up the Stones, and covered the barren Soil with freíh Earth to make their Levels, that fo no part of the ground might be loíl: : The firíl: Allies •vere the largeíl:, and as fpatious as the íituation of the place could bear, fome being of rhat lengrh and breadth as were \apab}e to receive a hu~dred, - fome two hundred, ·or thr~ hundredBuíhells of~eed: Tne fecond row ofAllies were made narrower imd íhorter; and fo wem leífening, untill at láíl:; at the bot- · tom and lowermoíl: Ally;' they were concraéted to fo narrow a Compafs, as was not capable to produce more than two or rhree finall meafures of May:{,, In fome parn rhey husbanded their ~arter, that they brought the Cl:anels of warer from fifteen or twenty Leagues d1íl:ance, though it were onely to improve a ílip of a-few, Acres of Land, which was efreemed good Corn-ground. Having in this manner (as we have faid) improved, and enlarged their Lands, rhe next thing was to ma-ke a juft Diviíion of them in all Coumries 7 for performance ofwhich they divided the grounds into three pares, arfe was a!Jotted to rhe Sun, a fecond to rhe King, and a third to the Inhabitants: This Rule was obferved with great exaétnefs, and in favour of the People, that fo the Natives ipight not wam ground for tillage; for in rhat cafe, when the Counrrey abounded wirh numbers of People, they abated of the proporrion allorted to the Sun, and co the Incrt-, for the fake and bene5t of the Subjeéts; fo that in effeét, neither <lid the Idng in his own, or in tigEt óf the Sun, áppropriate to himfelf any Lands, but fuch as lay untilled, unpoffeíl:, and without a Proprietor. Moíl: of the Lands belonging to the Sun, and the Inca, were incloíecl , and laid in Allies, being fo manured and imptoved by fpeci.al Command. Befides thefe Lands, whicb ·by teafon of their convenient íituation for receiving wa~er, prodoced May~, they rnade a Divifion of other Land, alfo that were in a dry foil, without any conve- nience ofwater, and yet becaufe tbey were capable to produce fome forcs of grane, and pul'fe, fuch as they called Papa, and Oca, and Anmu, wruch were very benefi- cia!; che Sun and che King had their fhares allowed thereof. This foil, which for want of water was chus barren, chey <lid not fow above one or two years ro- gether, "and then br?ke up freíh gr~und, leaving rhe other ro lie fallow, umill it had agairt recovered its former íl:rengtb. Their May:{,, or Wheat fields, which had thé benefir of water, they fowed i:very year, dunging them after every crop, as we do our Gardens, which made rhem extremely fruitfull; and with rhe May~ they fo~ ed a finall feed, !ike Rice, which they call ~inua, and grows much in cold Cou~tries . C H A P.