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brother, for that they should doe to this Image, during his LlB - Y - 

 life and death, as much honor and reverence as to himself. 

 They carryed this Image to the warres, and in procession for 

 rain or fay re weather, making sundry feastes and sacrifices 

 vnto them. There have beeue many of these Idolles in Cusco, 

 and in that terntorie, but nowe they say that this supersti 

 tion of worshipping of stones hath altogether ceased, or for 

 the most part, after they had beene discovered by the 

 diligence of the Licentiate Polo, and the first was that of 

 the Ynca Rocca, chief of the faction or raco of Hanan 

 Cusco. And we find that among other Nations they had in 

 great estimation and reverence the bodies of their prede 

 cessors, and did likewise worship their Images. 



CHAP. vn. Of Superstitions tltry vscd to ilic Dead. 



The Indians of Peru beleeved commonly that the Soules 

 lived after this life, and that the good were in glorie and 

 the bad in paine ; so as there is little diflicultie to perswade 

 them to these articles. But they are not yet come to the 

 knowledge of that point, that the bodies should rise with 

 the soules. And therefore they did vse a wonderfull care, 

 as it is saide, to preserve the bodies which they honoured 

 after death to this end their successors gave them gar 

 ments, and made sacrifices vnto them, especially the Kings 

 Yncas, being accompanied at their fuueralls with a great 

 number of servants and women for his service in the other 

 life ; and therefore on the day of his decease they did put 

 to death the woman he had loved best, his servants and 

 officers, that they might serve him in the other life. 



Whenas Iluayna Ccapac died (who was father to Atahu- 

 alpa, at what time the Spaniards entred), they put to death 

 aboue a thousand persons of all ages and conditions, for his 

 service, to accompany him in the other life ; after many 



