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one was named Cari and the other Chipana. These were very 

 courageous, and their rivalry led to cruel warfare between them ; 

 they were the lords of Porco, Ata, Moromoro, Macha, and Caracara, 

 up to the snow peaks of Tapacari ; and there were other provinces 

 which he subdued and brought under his sway. 



1547. On his fifth campaign he first built a bridge of woven straw 

 over the Outlet by dint of industry ; that was the largest that had 

 been built up to that day, as will be told in its due place. He subdued 

 the Provinces and settlements of the Charcas, Chayanta, Totora, 

 Sipesipe, and Chaqui, and to the E., Chamuru, Sacasaca, where coca 

 grows, and other provinces. He ordered irrigation trenches built to 

 water the fields and cultivated ground, and thus did his vassals a 

 great service. 



1548. He had many bridges built, so that his vassals could cross 

 the rivers without risk; and when he had established order in those 

 provinces he returned to his court, where he was well received. And 

 after he had rested from these campaigns and attended to admin- 

 istrative matters and the relief of his vassals, he set out again, to 

 conquer Amancay and Curahuasi. From there he traversed the 

 Cochacassa desert, which is 20 leagues across, and subdued the 

 Provinces of Los Soras, which were large and well peopled ; Aucara, 

 Los Lucanas, and the Nasca valleys on the western plains. After 

 the conquest of so many large provinces in the 40 years of his reign, 

 he was succeeded by Prince Inca Roca, his son by Coya Mama 

 Cariyllpay, his sister and wife ; he had in addition over 80 other sons 

 and daughters, legitimate and out of wedlock. He died in the year 

 1211, mourned by all his vassals, and was set with his fathers in 

 the Temple of the Sun. 



1549. Inca Roca, the sixth king of the Incas, after assuming the 

 red tassel which was like crown and scepter, and after accomplishing 

 the last rites for his father, went and inspected his Kingdoms, to 

 see if his governors administered and upheld his vassals in justice, 

 and to comfort them with his presence and to bestow rewards upon 

 them, which they observed as a custom and indeed as a law and 

 precept of their first father Mango Capac, who said that it had been 

 enjoined upon him by his father the Sun, and he left this mandate 

 and injunction for his descendants. He returned to his imperial 

 city and at once ordered that a famous woven cable bridge should 

 be thrown over the Rio de Apurimac (at the point where the Lima 

 King's Highway now crosses it), and traversed it with his army, 

 going on to the Rio de Abancay ; from there he brought under his 

 dominion the villages of Tacmar, Ouinualla, Cochas, Curapampa, and 



