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manded any workc to be done, or to furnish any thing to LlB v 

 the Ynca, the officer knew presently how much every Pro 

 vince, Towne, and Family, ought to furnish, so as the divi 

 sion was not made by equall portions, but by cottization, 1 

 according to the qualities and wealth of the Countrie. So 

 as for example, if they were to gather a hundred thousand 

 Fanegas of Mays, they knew presently how much every 

 Province was to contribute, were it a tenth, a seventh, or a 

 fift part. The like was of Townes and Villages and Ayllus 

 or Linages. The Quipocamayos, which were the officers and 

 intendants, kept the account of all with their strings and 

 knottes, without failing, setting downo what every one had 

 paied, even to a hen, or a burthen of wood, and in a mo 

 ment they did see by divers registers what every one ought 

 to pay. 



CHAT. xiv. Of the Edifices and manor of building of tic 



Yncas. 



The Edifices and Buildings which the Yncas made in 

 temples, fortresses, waies, countrie houses, and such like, 

 were many in number, and of an excessive labour, as doth 

 appeare at this day by their mines and fragments that 

 have remained, both in Cusco, Tiahuanaco, 2 Tanibo, 3 and 

 other places, where there are stones of an vn measurable 

 greatnes, so as men cannot conceive how they were 

 cut, brought, and set in their places. There came great 

 numbers of people from all Provinces to worko in these 

 buildings and fortresses, which the Ynca caused to be 

 made in Cusco, or other partes of the Realme. As these 

 workes were strange, and to amnze the beholders, wherein 

 they vsed no mortar nor ciment, neither any yron, or 

 steele, to cut, and set the stones in place. They had 

 no engines or other instruments to carie them, and yet 



1 ki 1 or quotas. 1 2 &quot;Tiahuanaco.&quot; 3 &quot; Ollantay-tampu.&quot; 



