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island of Puna ; he brought them into the Inca Empire and left 

 teachers with them to instruct them in his laws, and other officers 

 and functionaries for their wise administration. But they treacher- 

 ously drowned them all in the sea ; when King Huayna Capac learned 

 of this perfidy, he returned to the island with an army and dealt out 

 exemplary punishment to the culprits, to serve as an example to 

 others. 



Chapter XCI (89) 



Of Huayna Capac's Campaigns, and of the Royal Highways Which 

 He Built. 



1576. At this time the Provinces of Chachapoyas rebelled against 

 this valiant King, and for the ingratitude they had shown in murdering 

 his officers and governors, he set out to inflict cruel chastisement 

 upon them ; but this was averted by the prayers of a Chachapoyan 

 matron, the stepmother of a wife of his father Tupac Inca, and the 

 humility of the culprits, who repented of their crimes and professed 

 reform. So he pardoned them and left governors with them to 

 discipline them in observing his laws ; and they were good and 

 obedient vassals thereafter. 



1577. After pacifying these provinces, he went on to those of 

 Manta, Charapoto, Apichiqui, Pichunsi, Sava, Pellansimiqui, Pampa- 

 huasi, Saramisu, and Pasado, which lies under the Equator. And 

 when he had brought them under his sway, he reflected that the 

 country beyond was all lofty mountains and the natives savage and 

 unable to profit by the benefits he would bring them, for they were 

 so brutish that they had no houses nor individual wives and children ; 

 so he decided to go no farther, thinking it would be a loss of effort ; 

 and so when he had regulated these conquests, he returned [to 

 Quito] to Cuzco, for it seemed to him that anything further would be 

 a waste of exertion. 



The Province of Carangue, whose natives were very savage canni- 

 bals, rose in rebellion in order to continue their cruel and brutish 

 way of life. They killed the officers and functionaries of the Inca, 

 and ate them up. When the Inca learned of the rebellion and atro- 

 cities of these savages, he was deeply moved and ordered an army 

 raised to wage war upon them with fire and sword. He subdued 

 them and ordered severe chastisement for all the culprits, who are 

 said to have been over 2,000 in number, so that it should serve as 

 a deterrent for some and an example for others ; so he ordered that 

 they should be beheaded on a lake which lies in that region, and 

 so in memory of the chastisement they called it Yahuar Cocha, which 



