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.

Royal Commentaries. BooK l. 'Ihe Cif:J being thtU Peopled; Our Inca táught hi1 ~ubjeq1 thofe Labourr whick apper :.. tained ttnto the Men, as to plough and fow the Land·w1th ~!vers fort1 of Seed1, which were ufefull, and for food; to which end he inftruél:ed them how to mak! Plough1 ~11d Harrow1, and other /nftnmients, Jit and necef{ary f (ff. that purpofe ~ ~e fhewed them alfo the way of cutting chaneü for i:he .water~ which now t.un1 ~h~ough tht1 'l'alley of ~~.co, . and to 1:1ªk! Shoes for their Feet. On the bther (ide the ~en 1njl-ruél:ed the Womcn .111 g~od Hufwifer.J_, a1 how to ¡pin and weave Cotton an_d wool, ,and toma~ garf'?en(r for thetr Hmbandr, their Children and themfelves, with other Offices appertaining to the Houfa. In fam, nothing was omit;ed conducing to humane Wc!ifare, which the King did not teach hir Men, and the J2!!.een her women, makjng ihem both their Scholars and their Su/Jjeél:1. :/-. CH A P. IX. Íhe Afüo11s of the firfl Indian Hing, called Man~o CapácÁ T Hefe Indians /Jc-ing in this manner reduced, lookjd on themfalvu mucÍ·i bettered in con- . dition ; and with (ing11lar ac/z.ndplf#dgmentr of the benefiu received, and with great J~ and fatiJfaéfion travellea throng,h the Rock¿ and Thicketr to communicate the happy newr of thofe Children of the Sun, who for the c_omrmm good of a/L appeared ~n the. Earth, recoun- ting the great good and bmcf'rs ~hry had rifcei-ved from thel(J; and to gam bc!tef amongfl them theJ jhewcd rhem their new Habit, and p'wathing, and Djet, and that they Lived in Houfes lfnd in politica}SociefJ. This relation induced this wild People to fae thofe wonders, of which heing ful!J fatisfied by their own Eyes, they ranted themfeLvcs amongft the refl to fttirn, and obey; and thus one ca/ling and inviting the othcr, the f ame fpread far a_nd ne ar, and the people increafed in fucb mannér, that in rM firfl Jix or {even years the Inca had compofed i:tn Army fit for War; and having taught them how to mal:! Bow1 and ArroJPr, and Lancer;. i:tnd[Hch Weapdns a1 we rife to thi! day, thf!:Y were not onely capable to defend, but alfo to óf- f end an Enemy j and to compell thofe 0 force whofe beflial natHré detained from HHmane .Aj[ociation. ' , Jllnd that I may nót be tediou1 in the rclation of what thi1 Our firfl lnci aEfed, you mufl k¿iow, th 1 u he rediiced al! Eajfward, a1 far a1 the River called Paucarrampu, and eighry Leagues /reftward, fº the great River ca/led Apurimac, and to thc Southward nine Leagiies u Qiequefana: . To thefe fevcral qtu1rter1 Our Inca fent out particular Coloniei, to rhe largefl a hundred Famflies, and to the ief{er accord!ng to their capacity. T'hefe are rhe be- ginnings of thiI o$IY Cif), and of ihi1 our rich and famotu Empire, w.hichyour Father, and bis Adherents hd1Je ilefpoiled u1 of. T'hefa were odr firfl Incas, and Kingi in the firfl age.r óJ the World, from whom tht fucceeding Princé1, and we our fa/ver are defcended: but how marij ycar1 it maj be jince our Father the Sun fent hiI Ojff}ring amongft t-U, I am not ab/e preéifejy to decla,re, bectt.Jffe m} /Vfemory may fail me in it, bHt I imagine, they may be about 400 icarJ. Thi1 Dur lnc.a iPas named. Manco Capac, and hü J2!!.een Coya Mama ef Huaco, who weré, IU I·have faid, Brethren of the Srm and Moon. And thm having ílt large fatújied thé requeft you mad~ to me, in refation of which , that I 1r1(~ht not incline you to fadnefs, l abflRined from venting ted. rs at n7:J Eye1, which notwithftanding drop with bloud on my ileart, caitfed by that inw11fd grief Ifeef, to fae our Irn::as, ~nd their Empire tHined and deflroyed. . This large Relaríon of rhe driginaÍ oi o'tit Krngs, i received from thar inca, wbich was my Morhers Brorher, from whom I requeaed it; and which I have· cau[ed fairhfully to be tranílared ouc of rhe Indian inro the Spanifh Tongue; which though it be not written with fuch Majeíl:y of words as the Inca fpake it, nor with tl;a~ figni~cancy of ter~e!> as rhat. Language bear-s, nor io Ia:·ge and particular (to ávoxd tedioufnefs) Ji it was deltvernd to me; howfoe_ver ir may ferve ro give" • fufficient: