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inflicted the like punishment on him that did commit LlB - VI - 

 incest with his mother, grandmother, daughter, or grand- 

 childe : for it was not prohibited for them to marry together, 

 or to have of their other kinsfolkes for concubines ; onely 

 the first degree was forbidden. Neither did they allow the 

 brother to have the company of his sister, wherein they of 

 Peru were very much deceived, beleeving that the Yncas 

 and noble men might lawfully contract marriage with their 

 sisters, yea, by father and mother : for in tructh it hath 

 becne ahvayes helde vulawfull among the Indians, and for 

 bidden to contract in the first degree ; which continued 

 vntill the time of Tupac Ynca Yupanqui, father to Guayna- 

 capa, and grandfather to Atahualpa, at such time as the 

 Spaniards entered Pern, for that Tupac Ynca Yupanqui, was 

 the first that brake this custome, marrying with Mamaocllo, 

 his sister by the father s side, decreeing that the Yncas 

 might marry with their sisters by the father s side, and no 

 other. 



This he did, and by that marriage he had Guaynacapa, 1 

 and a daughter called Coya Cusilimay. Finding himselfo at 

 the poynt of death, he commaunded his children, by father 

 and mother, to marry together, and gave permission to the 

 noble men of his country, to marrie with their sisters by 

 the fathers side. And for that this marriage was vnlawful, 

 and against the lawe of nature, God would bring to an end 

 this kingdome of the Ynca, during the raignc of Huascar 

 Ynca, and Atahunlpa Ynca, which was the fruitc that sprang 

 from this marriage. Whoso will more exactly vnderstand 

 the manner of marriages among the Indians of Peru, lette 

 him reade the treatise Polo hath written, at the request of Don 

 leronirno Loaifa, Archbishop of the city of the Kings : which 

 Polo made a very curious search, as he hath doone of divers 

 other things at the Indies. r l he which importes much to be 

 kuowne to avoyde the errour and inconveniences where into 

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