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.

.!lo_qK IX. Rqyal Commentariú. J.) .L... d .1 rns, r::riv bm; ,t l . . ,{ .. C H A P. '! :.c~T' ' • f XXVJ; 'l ~~~t/!.f Wine,~ .. ~~d of t?e firfl Man th'i¡f made it in··cozco 5. an'd · -rn51 ~r,of tifi>er:r/;_rtke of -it~ . · " ' ' . . 1 • Gfbr·· J ,.,¡, r,1 : ,. 'f r ·n'.:lrd '!'Y' ·· .-. · • ·1 l ·. · 1 :8~¡ . iJ1~ . ~;,~~n(~~~r~, / s:?P.. b~img 1 dpo,n ~ my_departure fo! spain, i paífed ~\ tl}reogh '(.fue J2J,antatmlil .of Peter Lope:{, de. Cafaltn:, aNat1..ve of Llerena, a p~q~Jar qijta~:t from Cozco, he had been S.ecretaty tothe Préfident of Ga[ca, ~tBfi:wi~ qilje,d ¡t{4r-fahyaft, ,about nin~~eagu~ from the Ci.ey, and there1 met ~~!;\a Port¡¡gflf, .i:alled A!Jonfo Yltez~ wbo \yas agreat Husoondm'an, and lskijfull in :~e~ic~Jta.re~ ;1;tJd a very honeíl:Mara; he íhewe9 me all 1~1s 9rc~und and Planta~ ~~ 1 wlli~IH~f:!r~/ull of m0fr rare and e-xeell~nt Grapes, but would nG>t fuffer .tJl't ~O gátRet QJl~ bJJ.nffi ,of tfuem, which WÓWd have been ~éry '!CCe_p~abl~· to ~ T~y.e~Ier, as ·I ;w~~. and to one·who lowed 1them fo wdl, rhmtlie was .boc·pleafed . '.to. ~€¡w ;111e {o JIDJi<;h kindnefst; whldh when ·he 1perceived tfuít A took notice of, pe told me plaigly;. tbat 1 ougfilt to ,par.don nhat ,píece ofdifcoumHie, for thac his Ma~er had ,~n,charged him not to meddle widrfoimuoh as one LGrape, 'l;>ecau[e he ,i,Qte,ndeoi tQ roed<~ W.ine of thetn, ~s he af cerwands d id, .pteffm~ chem1in a trougll, .b~~~ufe he híidJJO·.Ptller ~onveniénce whe' re.wiidi.td tread or ~r~íS .thi:Jlil" :G>1:1n,; and ;ts ¡i School-feHow 0f mme told me after,wands .!11 S pain ~ that "this Peter Lopez de f:,_qr11.calla, r~olv,ed to gain the Jewel which Charle.s the sth commanded to be gi¡v~p tt0 che firft: Staniard, who from any .of vche Spanifh Plantations íhorild pro.: ~ ' or ·he able tó Ihew a certain .guanticy of Wmeac, Barley, ·Wine 0rüil, the ch chis great ·Emperour, and otlier Princes .oLglorious ·memoi'y, were pleaifed old fortb, as aa encouragement to chofe who íbould well manure 1!heir Land, .tbat-·it miglut produce che Fruits of spain, which did rnbt origióally belong to.that yuntrey. · · ( ~·; ''the quanticy of Wheat or Barley which ·was requíred, was about a Seam~; M~ of Wine, and Oil, about a hundred Wíeighc .of each, which is four ArrobM of Spanifh Mea[ure; and the Reward was to be of two pieces of Plate to che value of three hundred Ducats a piece; che gain and lucre of which was not the chief motive, that induc~d Pedro de Lopez de Car.a/la to be chus induftrious in bis Plan- · tations, bue rather the Glory and Honour he conceived ofbeing renowned topo- íl:erity, for being che firH: who made Wine from his own Vineyards near Cozco : and thus much íhall [erve as to che firft Wines which were made in my Countrey, · for other Cities off eru, fuch as Huamanca and Arequepa, had them long befare; but they were a f weet fort of Ha/oca, or Mufcatel Wines. Di[courftng once in Cordova with a Canon or Prebend of Peru, concerning thefe matters which we now relate, he told me that he was acquainted in the Kingdom of f2.t±iru, with a certain Spaniard, who was a very curious Perfon, ánd one very skilfull in Husban- dry, e[pecially in the manuring of Vineyards; for he was the firíl: thát brought · Vines from Rimac to if2..!!.itu, and had planted a [patious Vineyard along the Bánks of the River Mira, which being under the Equinoétial Line, is· extremely hot ; This Srocy is and for the greater curiofity he íhewed me twelve feveral Apamnents, one of my quefii~­ which he pruned every rnonth in the year, and by that meaos had always freíh and ~ab~, for te ripe Grapes through all the rnonths of the yea,r. In ali pares of. Peru they water ~~at n~~'d~; their Vines, becaufe the Countrey is very hot, and the Wearher always of the che Equinoc- fame temperature; fo that when they would have their Vines produce th'eir Fruir, tial rhe ~ap they afford them Water, and vvhen not, and that they vvould have the Sap fall of r_he Vme te the root, they vvith-hofd the Water, and aftervvards having caft their Leaves, ~=1~ :ned~~n­ and again pruned them, they open the Water-banks, vvith vvhich the root being feq~emly no refrefhed, they [pring, and bud, and produce their Fruit : In che fame mannet Fruic be pro· it paífes in fome Vallies vvith the Mayz, vvhere one furrovv is .nevvly fovved, duced. vvhen another is half a foot high in grovvth, and another is in the ear, and reacdy to be reaped; all vvhich is effeéted by che natural fituation of theClimate, vvhich makes