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.

R:oyal Cemmentariu. Éo_OK }~· ·¡ '/ .,. e HA P. - XX. O/ Sheep, .ami -Tume Cats. . T HE Sheep t>f Caftile, which ~ 1 e call fo, to difünguifh them from thofe of Peru, to whích tne Spaniard1 ..1improperly give che Name of Sheep, fince they are neither like th@m in fhape, Ror colour, nor any thing elfe as we have íhéwn i 1 its du12 place t Theíe Sheep, .I faY,, of Caftile, l know not when they "1ere firll in1potted into Pern, nor by who'm; the firfr tlfac 1 ever fa\V were in the·Fields abolit .Couo, in the year 1 5)6, and were then fold, one with anorher, at the tate of fhrty Pi€ces of Eight a head, and fome of the prime fort at fifcy ; and \.vere boughMhen both for love and money, as the Goats at firfi were. _ In the year 1560, when I departed from Cowo, M1mon was nor ·as yec folel it1 the Shamblts by weight : but fine~ by Letters from ,thence datéd, !n ché year 1 5 9q, t-fley wr,ite me that a Sheep was then fold in the Market for eight Ryals.of Eighc, or nen at moft ; and in eight years time fince, Sheep are fallen ro four Dlicars a head, and ÚAder- ~" and-n0w at prefent are fo common, and in (uch munber!., that they are worth very-little ; for an Ewe commbnly brings f orch ·cwo at a tifrfé, .ahel ofren three: theft,W'OO,l alío 'is Rr@du-ced in•that quamicy, that ít is ~f httle valú~, and lH\ot wotth above three or four Rya)s a quarcer of a húodred ; I know ndr ifrchiy have }¿áflletl ás yet to maké Weáthers bf them. Tbere are nG W0l\tes in chofe Councries, nor ever were ; nor will they be thought worthy to be ·crant. pOrted thithéY, unlefs they were mote profitable, and betrer c-0nditióned. .Nor fa1cf the Jndíans Houfe-'Otrsc ~~fore the coming in of th~ Spaniards, though now they have thém, !m~ call them-Micúu, whtch is a word t~ey have frálfted fr<?m the Spani/d'iJj, whorh they have heard to- call them ..11&, Mi~. Tbis, I ~y, to reótifie the mifiake of fomeSpa»iards, who wete of opinion, that the Indi..ihi had Cats before the time rhat the S¡aniard1 carne amongíl rhem, becaufe the}'. hed in thti~ Language a próp@n N~i:ne fór them : And ~ like ma;nner a ~rrain Hillo- rian argues, th4t they had H<rns before the time of the SpaniarqJ, becaufe they gave diem che Name of Gualpa: Ahd this wóuld féem a mofi convincing Argu- merie (O fuch who krt<?W not the aeduétion, OM;>tcafion~ Ofll wnich rchis Name of <Jualpa WllS gív'eh; wñích inde@d is not Gualpa, but Aeahua!pa; and hereon de- pend5 a moft pleafan( St_ory, which we !hall recount, when wé come ro rreat of Taqte Fovvl, whlch wel'e not Je Peru before the ti:nle of the tspam:ard1. . ( ' ... .. • • CH A P.