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in ruins, and to think that the unfortunates who ordered it built for 

 their aggrandizement and their good polity, and those who, in obedi- 

 ence to their superiors, constructed them, never attained the knowledge 

 of our Holy Faith and are therefore in Hell. [God Our Lord in 

 His Divine Mercy grant us grace to serve Him and escape it.] 



1478. Seven leagues farther, on the Cuzco road, is the village of 

 Uramarca ; at the end of it one crosses the large Rio de Vilcas by 

 a rope bridge with very thick cables made of withes which they call 

 bejucos (rattans), like willow withes; these are anchored and fixed 

 very tight to some walls on the one side of the river, and to others 

 made for the purpose on the farther side, and stretched taut ; every- 

 body crosses by it. The river at this point will be as broad as the 

 Genii at ficija, i.e., over 150 paces. To the W. lies the Province of 

 Los Soras, and to the E., the Andes and the Provinces of Viticos, 

 where Mango Inca Yupangui ensconced himself and from which 

 his followers sallied forth to raid the Spaniards. That was why they 

 founded and settled the city of Guamanga, which is the limit of the 

 district of the Diocese of Guamanga ; here it borders on the Province 

 of Andahuailas, which belongs to the Diocese of Cuzco. 



Chapter LXXH [69] (74) 



Of the District of Andahuailas, and of Other Provinces in the 

 Diocese of Cuzco. 



1479. Beyond Uramarca, on the King's Highway to Cuzco and 

 in its district, is the Province of Andahuailas, which the Indians in 

 ancient times called Andabaylas. The natives of this province and 

 its tribe had been very brave and warlike with all the neighboring 

 and adjoining provinces of other tribes ; they called themselves 

 Chancas, and had as tradition an amusing extravaganza about their 

 ancestors, who, they said, were born and had their source in the Lake 

 of Chocloccocha which lies close to some of the mines where they 

 founded the city of Castrovirreina when Don Garcia de Mendoza 

 was Viceroy ; they gave it that name for his wife, Dofia Teresa de 

 Castro. Leaving aside the fiction of their origin in the lake, it is a 

 fact that these Chancas were very valiant warriors in their day ; 

 they went and conquered many tribes, and sought out new territories 

 to settle and colonize for the perpetuation of their name ; and when 

 they reached the extensive province of Andahuailas, which was 

 thickly settled with members of the Quichua tribe, they conquered 

 it ; and since it had a good climate and soil and fertile fields for 

 their crops and animals, they colonized it and made their home there ; 



