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son by his wife or concubine the daughter of King Quito, of whom 

 he had been [husband of the mother]. This partition of the King- 

 doms was the complete ruin and destruction of that great monarchy, 

 and the end of those kings ; but Our Lord arranged it in His Divine 

 Providence so that the preaching of His Gospel might penetrate those 

 countries which the Incas had been instructing in the Law of Nature 

 and so preparing them for that of Grace. Huayna Capac died at 

 Quito in the year 1523; they opened and embalmed his body and 

 took it to the imperial city of Cuzco, to the Temple of the Sun, 

 where he was laid and worshiped by his subjects as a god. His heart 

 and entrails he ordered buried in Quito, for the love he bore that 

 Kingdom, which he had conquered. His death was mourned and 

 deeply felt by all the Kingdoms of his vassals. 



Chapter XCH (Marg.: 86) 



Of Huascar Inca, Thirteenth King of Cuzco, and of His Death. 



1580. After paying the funeral honors and solemnities to their 

 father Huayna Capac in the year 1523 [1623], the two new Kings — 

 Huascar at Cuzco, the legitimate successor, who assumed the red 

 tassel in token of possession, and Atahualpa at Quito, in his new 

 parasitic Kingdom — lived in peace for several years, attending to 

 the wise administration of their Kingdoms and vassals, each in his 

 own Kingdom. This tranquil period lasted for 5 years ; at the end 

 of that time, Huascar reflected upon the mistake he had made in 

 consenting to the formation of the new Kingdom of Atahualpa's, in 

 his desire to obey and please his father ; that was contrary to the 

 laws, statutes, and practice of the great Inca Mango Capac and his 

 descendants, the Kings of Cuzco; there were tribes to subdue in 

 that quarter, and he could not do it, because of the boundaries set 

 for the new Kingdom ; and since the new King Atahualpa had been 

 appointed for the reasons given, it was only right that he should 

 recognize him as his superior and the greater monarch, with some 

 vassalage and feudal tribute. He held a meeting of his Council on 

 this subject, and with this end in view despatched an Inca relative 

 of his on this embassy ; Atahualpa received and listened to him with 

 much humility and pleasure, to all appearance. 



This gave the incentive for the rebellion which he had been astutely 

 and shrewdly nursing for the ruin of his brother and the destruction 

 of his Kingdom. He replied to the ambassador that it was only right 

 to recognize and obey the great Huascar Inca as supreme lord. Upon 

 this reply, they despatched a courier in all haste to the King, who 



