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.

39(? Royal Commeniarie:r. makes no difference of Seafons, and is indeed the effeél: ofNature, rather than of Curiofüy, or any other good Husbandry. · · · In the Year 15 60. vvhicb vvas a,bout the time that I depa.rted from Co:uo, and fome vvhile after, it vvas nof Jhe cuíl:orpe to afford Wine at the Table upon any invitation of the Neighbours, vvho vvere fuch as vvere Maíl:ers of Indian1, and common Gueíl:s, unlefs one, or fo, might require it for the fake of his Health being accounted .a point ofLuxury and Vice {or ·any one.to drink it for other €3.uf ~ than for neceflity. For: vvhen the Spaniards laid 'theit firfr foul'ldations of düsEm- pire, they aél:ed it vvith great fobriety, and having b,egan vvith •@ardfhip and rem- perance, they eaíily continued a moderate and frugal Table; fo that ilieir Gueíl:s vvhen invited, vvould refufe Wine, though it vvere offered them; for they kne~ rhe price to be very dear, being vvorth, vvhen cheapeíl:, at leaíl: thirty Ducats th(l rAúove, (vvhith is but tvvency¡five pounds vveight) and c.onlib~ea át che famt pr.ice:?h'til1 aftet nlie ,yY,ars .of Fr~~cifeo Hernandez. .Giron. fo ~lilé, ft.im ~ of Gonfalo P1fllr:ro., ~nd ID.efote,. lt! .vvas vvorth fr.om three hundr.ed , to • ~~· hupered Ducats the A\@ve 1 and i_rnthe:ilfears 15 )."tl.l,alild 55. theVinrage_fO generally táile'd throúgli th~MV'l1ble Kingdomy ánd. fuch-f<;:arc;ity there vvas 'of it in tUe City of /01 Reyes, that 1~hér.e vvas fcarce-fdfficient ·for. the Sacfarnenrivvhich is ce.Jebmtéd in.the Mafs; vvhereforé the Arohhiíhop 'D. reronimo,de Loayfa,L'oilGleted.that 1half.á'Butt of Wilie 1vvhLch'.iv..vas found in1a.Houfe íhtbu1d.. bé confervetHot .tl:fe ufJ áttdifervice 6f the Ma.ífes.'}<Jrln fuch fcar-riity· andcwan!i MWine they remaiilted for .feveral Days and Mooths;: untill a !hip arrivedin 1inat Port, belonging to two Merch¡mts of my ac- quaintarnze, ( whom~ out of refgefr to their Noble Families, I' forbear to nám~,) impaning two theefand Barreis'of·Wine, pan oC which1they fold at full: for three huadr~d and frxnyDucats,the,Barrel, and the \látter parcel for no lefs than , ~wo hundred. 'i 1fhi6;a((ount I rereived from a Maíl:er of one .of· th~ Veffels on whichI embarked:im!my Voyage 1 from los Royes to Panama; fo.r which reafons Wine is' not commonl~ drank: 0n,a certain 'day a Gemlemah w'ho was Mafift- ofIndi11nsiinvitéd·an6rher to dine1With him, who was Maíl:et of none, aad being in cbeerfitll cohve1;fation with five órftx Spaniards more, he defired a cup ofWa- .ter w clrink; upon which the N1aíl:er of the Houfe-fent him Wine, but he refu- . fing i~, _ faiid that he drank no Wlne; whereupon the Maíl:er replied, that if it ' were.fQ, he ího~ld defüe hi~ cornpariy to eat wit~ him every day-; imirnating that ~he cbarge ~)f -y i0uals , w~ mconfiderable, prov1ded rhat the re<~koning were·not ,rnflamed w1th Wme, which yet was not refu[ed fo much for the 'dearnds ofit, as for the total want there ,was fomeumes,of it, being btought from fo remoteparts a.sSpaiv. · ~ .! ¡, CHA P.