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when Don Francisco Pizarro entered that Kingdom with his com- 

 rades in the year 1531. 



Chapter LXXX [83] (79) 



Of the Monarchy of the Incas, Their Conquests and the Dates 

 of Their Reigns. 



1536. According to what I have been able to investigate and dis- 

 cover in the tales and confused accounts of the Indian quipos, which 

 are their annals containing their governmental ordinances and the 

 statement of their deeds, Mango Capac, first King of the Incas, left 

 the Lake of Titicaca with his wife and sister the Queen, at the com- 

 mand of his father the Sun (according to the fabrication and fable 

 which they relate) in the year 1025. He preached the Law of Nature 

 to those savage tribes, teaching them a civilized manner of life in 

 communities and elevating them from the savagery in which they 

 were living like brute beasts ; he showed them how to till the ground 

 and to do all else as reasonable human beings should. He spent 

 5 years doing this and finally reached the valley and site which had 

 been ordained for him by his father the Sun. He devoted a year 

 there to uplifting the savages who lived thereabout, preaching to 

 them and instructing them, and in the year 1031 he founded the 

 imperial city, mother and fatherland of so many kings and emperors 

 of those austral regions ; like another Rome, ennobled by such sons, 

 she was queen and mistress of so many nationalities whom she brought 

 under her sway by her arms, and by her laws she kept and main- 

 tained them for a period of over 500 years in peace and good 

 government. 



1537. After founding the city. King Mango Capac, for its further 

 ennobling, established the converts to his doctrine and teachings in 

 over 100 villages round about: to the N. in the Xaquixaguana 

 (Marg. : Sacsaguana) Valley (i.e., Sacsahuana) and its region, 20; 

 to the W. toward the Condesuyos Highway, 30; to the E. along the 

 Rio de Paucartambo, 13; and to the S. along the Collao Highway, 

 40 villages. Beginning at the salt beds a league from the city, scene 

 of that cruel battle where Fernando Pizarro routed Don Diego de 

 Almagro, the villages were established along the Rio de Yucay ; these 

 were Tambo, Muyna, Quehuar, Huarac, Cavina, and many others, 

 as far as the Urcos Valley, which is 6 leagues from the city. After 

 he had taught them to till and seed the ground, he gave them some 

 laws and ordinances, with great privileges, especially to the founders 

 of the city ; he made them Incas by privilege and ordered that they 



