THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad 



1595- 



Lopez in his generall historic of the Indies, wherein 

 he describeth the Court and magnificence of Guaynacapa, 

 ancestour to the Emperour of Guiana, whose very wordes 

 are these. Todo el servicio de su casa, mesa, y cozina, 

 era de oro, y de plata, y quando menos de plata, y cobre 

 por mas rezio. Tenia en su recamara estatuas huecas de 

 oro, que parecian gigantes, y las figuras al propio, y 

 tamanno de quantos animales, aves, arboles, y yervas 

 produze la tierra, y de quantos peces cria la mar y aguas 

 de sus reynos. Tenia assi mesmo sogas, costales, cestas, y 

 troxes de oro y plata, rimeros de palos de oro, que 

 pareciessen lenna raiada para quemar. En fin no avia 

 cosa en su tierra, que no la tuviesse de oro contrahecha : y 

 aun dizen, que tenian los Ingas un vergel en una Isla cerca 

 de la Puna, donde se yuan a holgar, quando querian 

 mar, que tenia la ortaliza, las flores, y arboles de oro y 

 plata, invencion y grandeza hasta entonces nunca vista. 

 Allende de todo esto tenia infinitissima cantitad de plata, 

 y oro por labrar en el Cuzco, que se perdio por la muerte 

 de Guascar, ca los Indios lo escondieron, viendo que los 

 Espannoles se lo tomavan, y embiavan a Espanna. That 

 is, All the vessels of his house, table and kitchin were 

 of gold and silver, and the meanest of silver and copper 

 for strength and hardnesse of metall. He had in his 

 wardrobe hollow statues of gold which seemed giants, and 

 the figures in proportion and bignesse of all the beasts, 

 birds, trees, and hearbes, that the earth bringeth foorth : 

 and of all the fishes that the sea or waters of his king- 

 dome breedeth. He had also ropes, budgets, chestes and 

 troughs of golde and silver, heapes of billets of gold, that 

 seemed wood marked out to burne. Finally, there was 

 nothing in his countrey, whereof he had not the counter- 

 fait in gold : Yea and they say. The Ingas had a garden of 

 pleasure in an yland neere Puna, where they went to recreat 

 themselves, when they would take the aire of the Sea, 

 which had all kinde of garden-hearbs, flowers and trees of 

 golde and silver, an invention, and magnificence till then 

 never seene. Besides all this, he had an infinite quantitie 



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