430 VIEWS, &C. PLATEAU OF CAXAMAECA. 



died, is considered by Robertson not to be satisfactorily deter- 

 mined; but the investigations of Balboa and Velasco shew, 

 that the event must have occurred about the end of 1525. 

 The statements of Hevelius {Cometographie , p. 844), and of 

 Pingre (vol. i. p. 485), obtain additional confirmation from 

 the testimony of Garcilaso, (p. i. p. 321,) and the traditions 

 preserved among the Amautas (" que son los filosofos de 

 aquella republics. "). I may here add the remark, that Oviedo 

 is certainly incorrect in stating in the yet unpublished con- 

 tinuation of his " Historia de las Indias" that the name of 

 the Inca was not Atahuallpa, but Atabaliva. See Prescott's 

 Conquest of Peru, vol. i. p. 498. 



(15) p. 410 — "Ducados de Oro," (3,838,000 golden ducats.) 



The sum mentioned in the text is that stated by Garcilaso 

 de la Vega.* On this subject, however, Padre Bias Valera 

 and Gomera give different accounts. f Moreover, it is difficult 

 to ascertain the precise value of the Ducado Castellano or 

 Peso de Oro.'j; The intelligent historian, Prescott, has had 

 the opportunity of consulting a manuscript, bearing the 

 promising title of "Acta de Repartition del Rescate de 

 Atahuallpa" (Act of assessment for the ransom of Atahuallpa). 

 The Peruvian booty shared by the brothers Pizarro and 

 by Almagro, appears to be too highly estimated by Prescott, 

 who says it amounted to 3.500.000^. sterling, but the ransom 

 money, the treasures of the different temples of the Sun, and 

 of the Huertas de Oro, were all included in that amount. § 



(16) p. 412 — " The great Huayna Capac, who, for a Child of 

 the Sim, teas somewhat disposed to free-thinking." 



The nightly disappearance of the sun excited, in the mind 

 of the Inca, many philosophic doubts respecting the govern- 

 ment of the world by that luminary. Among the Inca's re- 

 marks on this subject, as recorded by Padre Bias Valera, are 

 the following: — " Many maintain that the sun lives and is the 



* Commentaries realesde las Incas, parte ii. 1722, pp. 27, 51. 



t Historia de las Indias, 1533, p. 67. See my Essai Politique sur 

 la Nouvelle Espagne, ed. 2, t. iii. p. 424. 



% See the Essai politique, t. iii. p. 371, 377; and also Joaquin 

 Acosta's Descubrimiento de la Nueva Granada, 1848, p. 14. 



§ Prescott's Conquest of Peru, vol. i. pp. 464 — 477. 



