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 IX. Royal Com_'!lentarier. rraéted Ol~t of rhe_WQrds of the three pre~eding· Authours, who treat of ihefe cwo famous Roads i every one of \vbic& exalts their prai[es 'to fuch a degree; as moít'pleaíes 'bis fancy,-rhough they aU come fhórt of that praife ano a.dmrration, which_is due to rhe Greatn~fs of fo -~ighry ~ ~ork: Fbr were there l)Othing more m_ the matt~f.., tl~an on~ly .ª contm~ed d1ílanc~ of five lm,nc,fr~d Leagues in kngth, ~t were ,múch .to be admired ; but wqen,we confider ~hat th1s Road patfes over afcem~ qn .th~ Mount.!l i:ns qf :tY.Vó; ~bree, and _four Leagues high_; ic is ~~en fo füange, thac nochm~ feems to b~ compar~ble to. ~t. Befides all whi<;~, . V\le, i;nuíl: note, thac on rhe h1gheíl: tops oí the Hills, from whence Was che bell profpeét, chere were ereéted cerrain Looges, or Houfes of Pleafure, whkh were feated 0n ~ach íide of the way, with Scqne-íl:airs to gb up to them, where 'the Chair-men which carried the Sedans did ufually reíl:, 'and .where the Incas did fic for fome time caking the Air, ancJ für.veying io a moft pleafant profp~ét all the high and 1.ower pares of che Mountaihs, whichwore .their coverings ofSnow, or on which, the 'Snow· was fa.llíng -, which certainly was·a moft pleafant view; ~or from the t,ops of fo~me very high Moµnrains one rnight fee fixcy, feventy, eighty, oran hun- dred Leagues round'; in. which variety of profpeét the piques of fome very high. Mountairís were to be.feen, that feemed to touch the Heavens, and ocher Chafms and Precipices fo low and deep, as feemed to éxtend unto the centre of tl}e .Earch.. Ofall which Works, there is notping remain~ but Ruines, and fuch as War and time have not been able to, deílroy. Ortely in. che Road by the Plains, and in, the defarcs ofSand, which are wide and vafi, and,where al(o are fome HiHs and, . Dales, chere they have droven in their Piles, 0.t Poíl:s of Wood i which being ~laced in fight one of anotlier ,, do ferve for Marks to direlt: Travelle~s in their .way, where there is no path, or bea'ten road, becaufe it being all Sancl, the track and footíl:eps are coveued by the SaMfo often as it is moved by the Wind : And thei:efoi:é c&efe Poíl:s are fo neceífary to Travellers, as the-Needle of the Coinpafs' is to direét a Sh!P through the fl@~tióg Waves. . ,, 1 1 1 • JÜ' ~' :.~ H A , J?. XIV~ 'l' l .. ' ~ ' f .... . .-/1:' ~" ) . ' ' ) • . l . · th'at I:Jpayni Capat received ' News · hoiy · the Spa~ni~r4~ ~ ' ,. 11· failed along the Coafi of Pe.ni: , . , . : 1 .. ' ) . • ül" : 1 i: tv a)na Capac b~i~ bufted and empÍo;ed·in tbe fotemencioned affa,irs, and ll refiding in the Royal Falaces of Tumipampa, which are the moíl: M~~ cene of any in ~eru . , advices w~re br?ught him; :that fom€l firanger , N~tio~; ne~ . ver befare feeri rn thofo Countnes, failed along that íhore to mak.e .a d1fcqyc;ry of ~he J:,and ; upon ".Vhich intelligence Huayna Capac was ~nuch fuiprized? ~terca~.; mg new fears and ')ealoufies of an unknown people, of whom ~o account pf therr Nation¡ or .the. pares frorn whenc~ they came <;ould be, g~ven1 ' 1,3uc. we, are ca note, that chis Ship was Corrnia¡ided by Bafeo Nunnez of Jlilbo; whqwas che firi\: that d1fcov~red che South-Sea; and the Seamen wer~ Spaniards, wpo (as we ha\r€; faid befoi;e) _were the firft that gaV.e che Name of Peru unto chis Empire, whifq , ·happened in ilie year t p 5, che difcovery of which Countrey being two ~éa~ o~.:. fore. 1here is an Hiíl:otian, who reports, _that the.Ship an~ Spaniardf o€long~­ to Don Francifco de Pifai:ro, and his chirreen .Companions,. who wer,e the firl}: Dif- coverers of Nru ; in which there was a nüílake betw~en che firlt Difcoyer~rs, and che firíl: O.mqueroilts : Tbere was alfo fome erro~r as fo th~ tim~ • .{or th~re w~ fifteen or fixteen·years differnricé, ~etween one ~nd_ the.othe'r.; (or tbe firft difce-: very o( Peru, and .che Nam~ given .to it, happened in tb~ year 151 5 ; ;ind th~ y~ar when francifco Pi r¡arro, and bis fo,ur Brothers, with _Don Diego d~ Alm_agr~ in:- vaded Ehat: Co1mtrey was 15' 31, and Huay¡za Capac .died eight yeats befare, being' Bbb :t ht ) '1 t