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.

BooK 1. Royal Commentaries. withio a lictle L~ague Qf che City, where that fa~al B:mei ~as fough,t of Don Diego o~ Al~agro the E}der? and H.e. ~n.ando Pi~arro? all the;other Nátíorís qa.~e five or fíx different denommat1ons, which are fl!!.efjncancha, Muyna, Z!rco!, ,f4!_ehuar; Huaruc, Cavinna. This Nation of Cavinna boaíl: themfelves much of being de~ (cended from Parent~, who próceeded from a certain Lake ,, where rhey report that the.Souls of füch who dye do emer, .and thence "récilrn again rq animare otJ"¡er Bodies. Thefe People adoted an Idol of a prodigioús figure, an<¡l óffeted a ftrange forc of Sacrifice to rt s but the Inca; Manco Capaé ; , defiroyed che lqol, ;md abolifhed their rices, and cornpelled them as he did all his ocher fubjeéts co adore theSun. _ . . :.. ·.. , , _ 1 Thefe People, who .were not mµch above a hundred rn number, we're bu~ fmall in che begíiming , che greace(l: nót exceeding á hundred families, and che leífer confiíl:iog of about cwenty'_ five or chirty, .w~ich afte"nyards by t_he privileges and encouragements, whICh ~he Inca, Manco <:apac, hefio.w~d upóri them, (as we íhall hereafter declare) chey mcreafed exceedmgly, many ,of . ~nem exrending rhemfelves inco a thoufand Families, and che 'ldfer to ch1.;ee or roúr hun~ dred at leaíl:; ch~ wh1ch i!llmunitie5 and favolll'S being 1 éonfümed, and augmented by Manco Capac and his Succeífour5, the people inmafed.ánd flourifhed, till áll was defiroyed by the barbarous Tyránny óf.Atauhualpa. Now in thefe our time5> and about cwenty years paíl: chofe· Colonies which Manco Capac planted .on chis fide, and almofi all the People of Pme do. not now poífefs their andent dwellings; . becaufe a Vice-Roy, as we fhall fhew in-it~ propér place, joined them afierwards, oniting five or fix into one, and fometimes feven or eighr> :is was moíl: agreeable to his purpofe, from whence many inconvenierkes accnied tothat People, which we omit, becaufe they are grievous and ungrátefull to repeat. CH .A P. XII. In what mamzer the Inca taught and inflrutfed hiJ SubjeEls. T HE Inca, Manco Capac, as he planted h~ Colonies, fo every where he taughf them to plow, ano cultivare the Land, how to make Aqueduéts and Con• fervacories for th<';ir·Water, and ali ocher matters'tending to the more commodi- ous well-beiilg ofhumane Llfe; he gave chem alfo fome rules ofCívilicy neéeffa- ry i,n fociecy for maintenance of Friendíhip and Brocherhood , as the L:nvs of Nature and Reafon diétated; thac !aying afide ali animofities and paffions one againíl: the other, they íhoulddoe as they would be done by, maincaining without partiality the fame Law for others which they al!ow for themfelves: but above all he recommended to them a refpeél: which they ought to bear towards the Bo- dies oftheir Wives and Daughters, for in that vice chey were che mofi blameable ami barbarous; and in ord~ hereunto he made Adukery, Murther .and Robbery mortal crimes; and punifh~ble with death. He ordered chat nó man fhou!d have Jllore chan one Wife at a time, and chat in their Marriages they fhould con- fine chemf~lves to their Tribes, tbat chey·might not make a rnnfufion in the Line- · a_ge, and that from twency years and upwards they might marry, becaufe before that time their prudence was not ripe enough to manage their Affairs, nor go- . vero their Familie5, 1-ie ~mployed ochers to gather the more gende fort ofCaerle mto flocks, which ran difperfec,i and wild tlirough the w oods and Fields, caufing them to make ga.rments of cheir Wool, aw,xding fo che Art which che Queeri Mama Oc/lo Huaco had taught them fot [pinning anq weaving; he. fhewed then'l; ~fo how to make that forc of Shoes wµich they nów wear, and v.;hich diey éall V fata, Over every one of thefe Colonies he ordained a Chiefj whkh they called tüf11~4