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Also of the fine stuffe of Cumbi, 1 of carved and sweete wood, LlB - v - 

 and most commonly tallow burnt. They made these offer 

 ings or sacrifices for a prosperous winde, and faire weather, 

 or for their health, and to be delivered from some dangers 

 and mishappes. Of the second kinde their ordinary sacri- . 

 fice was of Cnyes? which are small beasts like rabbets, the 

 which the Indians eate commonly. And in matters of im 

 portance, or when they were rich men, they did offer Pacosf 

 or Indian sheepe bare or with wooll, observing curiously the 

 numbers, colours, and times. The manner of killing their 

 sacrifices, great or small, which the Indians did vse accord 

 ing to their ancient ceremonies, is the same the Moores vse 

 at this day, the which they call Alquiblr* hanging the bcnst 

 by the right fore legge, turning his eyes towards the s in, 

 speaking certain wordes according to the qualitie of the 

 sacrifice they slew; for, if it were of colour, their words were 

 directed to Chuquilla? and to the Thunder, that they might 

 want no water; if it were white and smooths they did offer 

 it to the Sunno with certain words ; if it had a fleece they 

 did likewise offer it him with some others, that lie might 

 shine vpon them and favour their generation; if it were a 

 Guanaco, which is gray, they directed their sacrifice to 

 Viracocha. In Cusco they did every yeare kill and sacrifice 

 with this ceremony a shornc sheepe to the Sunne, and did 

 burne it, clad in a red waste-conto ; and when they did 

 burne it, they cast certaine small baskets of Coca into tho 

 fire, which they call Vilcaronca, for which sacrifice they have 

 both men and beasts appointed which serve to no other vse. 

 They did likewise sacrifice small birdes, although it were 

 not so vsuall in Peru as in Mexico, where the sacrificing of 



1 Ccomj)i, Quichua for fine cloth. See G. tie la Veya, i, lib. v, cap. 6. 

 8 City (for Ccoy), a guinea pig. See G. &amp;lt;k la Veya, i, lib. vi, cap. 6. 

 3 Alpacas. 



* Kibln, the place to which Muhammadans look when praying. 

 5 Chut/niHa (t hiujiii-i/lla), the Peruvian god of thunder and lightning. 

 See Molina MS. (Laics and Rites of the I /icas, pp. 26, 56, 155, 167). 



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