First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, Volume 2Hakluyt Society, 1871 - Incas |
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afterwards arms army Atahuallpa Ayllu battle birds blood royal brother brought Cañaris captains Chancas CHAPTER chief Chile Chimu Chincha Cieza de Leon city of Cuzco clothes coast Colla colour conquered conquest Curacas customs Cuzco death ducats edifices empire enemy Father Acosta Father Blas Valera favour festival fortress four Francisco Francisco de Toledo fruit Garcilasso gave gold and silver Gonzalo Pizarro governors honour horses houses Huascar Huayna Ccapac Incas Indians call inhabitants Juan killed kind kingdom of Chile Kings Yncas land language laws lord maize Manco Ccapac means natives ordered ORNIA Pachacamac Pachacutec palaces peace Pedro de Cieza Pedro de Valdivia Peru priests prince province Quichua Quito Quitu received relations river road sent soldiers Spain Spaniards Spaniards call Spanish stones temple things thousand took tribute Truxillo Tupac Ynca Yupanqui valley vassals village ward word worshipped Ynca Uira-ccocha Yuncas
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Page 113 - Garcilasso says that a dead Ynca's wives "volunteered to be killed, and their number was often such that the officers were obliged to interfere, saying that enough had gone at present...
Page 294 - Que de lejos ofenden desmandados Bajo la protección de los piqueros, Que van hombro con hombro, como digo, Hasta medir a pica al enemigo. Si el escuadrón primero que acomete Por fuerza viene a ser desbaratado, Tan presto a socorrerle otro se mete, Que casi no da tiempo a ser notado; Si...
Page 100 - Inca usually sat on a stool of solid gold called tiana... without arms or back, and with a concave surface for the seat. It was placed on a great square board of gold. All the cups for the whole service of the house, as well for the table as for the kitchen, were, large and small, of gold and silver; and some were placed in each depot for the use of the king when travelling.
Page 156 - Others came in a costume neither more nor less than that in which Hercules is painted, wrapped in the skins of lions, with the heads fixed over their own. These were the Indians who claimed descent from a lion. Others came attired in the fashion that they paint angels, with great wings of the bird called Cuntur. These wings are black and white, and so long that the Spaniards have often killed birds measuring fourteen feet between the tips of the wings. These are the Indians who declare that they...
Page 400 - river of the Amazons " was given to it, because Orellana and his people beheld the women on its banks fighting as valiantly as the men.
Page 101 - ... seemed to be too great a luxury, and too artificial to be in conformity with the natural life that they profess to lead. " They did not have tapestry for the walls, because they were covered with gold and silver. The dinners were very plentiful, as they were prepared for all the Inca's relations who might come to dine with the king, as well as for all the servants of the household, who were numerous. The hour for the principal meal, both for the Inca and for the people, was eight or nine in the...
Page 34 - It was the duty of the decurions to see that the people were clothed"; and the kinds of cloth, decorations, badges, &c., to be worn by the different ranks were prescribed. Besides this regulation of external life there was regulation of domestic life. The people were required to "dine and sup with open doors, that the judges might be able to enter freely...
Page 11 - From a distance these heaps of manure look like the peaks of snowy mountains. In the time of the Kings Yncas such care was taken to preserve these birds, that it was unlawful for any one to land on the islands during the breeding season on pain of death ; that the birds might not be disturbed or driven from their nests. Nor was it lawful to kill the birds at any time, either on the islands or elsewhere, also on pain of death.
Page 163 - Sun, and the bodies were burnt until they were converted to ashes. It was necessary that the fire for the sacrifice should be new, and given by the hand of the Sun, as they expressed it. For this purpose they took a large bracelet, called chipana (like those they usually wear on the left thumb). This was held by the high priest. It was larger than usual, and had on it a highly polished concave plate, about the diameter of an orange. They put this towards the Sun, at an angle, so that the reflected...
Page 126 - They could set forth the sacrifices and ceremonies that should be performed on such and such festivals; nnd could declare the rule or ordinance in favor of the widows or the poor: and to give an account in short, of all things preserved by tradition in their memories. Thus each thread and knot brought to the mind that which it was arranged that it should suggest, just as the commandments and articles of our Holy Catholic faith, and the works of mercy, are remembered by the numbers under which they...