412 YIEWS OF NATURE. 



beard would seem to indicate some admixture of Spanish 

 blood. Huascar and Atahuallpa, two sons of the great Huayna 

 Capac (who for a child of the Sun was somewhat disposed to 

 free-thinking) (16), reigned in succession before the invasion of 

 the Spaniards. Neither of these two princes left any acknow- 

 ledged male heirs. In the plains of Quipaypan, Huascar 

 was made prisoner by Atahuallpa, by whose order he was 

 shortly after secretly put to death. Atahuallpa had two 

 other brothers. One was the insignificant youth Toparca, 

 who in the autumn of 1533 Pizarro caused to be crowned as 

 Inca; and the other was the enterprising Manco Capac, who 

 was likewise crowned, but who afterwards rebelled: neither 

 of these two princes left any known male issue. Atahuallpa 

 indeed left two children ; one a son, who received in Christian 

 baptism the name of Don Francisco, and who died young; 

 the other a daughter, Dona Angelina, who became the mis- 

 tress of Francisco Pizarro, with whom she led a wild camp 

 life. Dona Angelina had a son by Pizarro, and to this grand-- 

 son of the slaughtered monarch the Conqueror was fondly 

 attached. Besides the family of Astorpilca, with whom I 

 became acquainted in Caxamarca, the families of Carguaraicos 

 and Titu-Buscamayca were, at the time I visited Peru, 

 regarded as descendants of the Inca dynasty. The race of 

 Buscamayca has since that time become extinct. 



The son of the Cacique Astorpilca, an interesting and 

 amiable youth of seventeen, conducted us over the ruins of the 

 ancient palace. Though living in the utmost poverty, his 

 imagination was filled with images of the subterranean 

 splendour and the golden treasures which, he assured us, lay 

 hidden beneath the heaps of rubbish over which we were 

 treading. He told us that one of his ancestors once blind- 

 folded the eyes of his wife, and then, through many intricate 

 passages cut in the rock, led her down into the subterra- 

 nean gardens of the Inca. There the lady beheld, skilfully 

 imitated in the purest gold, trees laden with leaves and 



