430 YNCA TRADITIONS. 



LIB. vi. tormented many Indians, in the end ho found it in Xaquixa- 

 guana, whereas they said Pizarro was afterwards vanquished, 

 taken, and executed by the President Gasca. Gonzalo 

 Pizarro caused the body of Viracocha Ynca to be burnt; the 

 Indians did afterwardes take the ashes, the which they pre 

 served in a small vessell, making great sacrifices therevnto, 

 vntill Polo did reforme it, and other idolatries which they 

 committed vpon the bodies of their other Yncas, the which 

 hee suppressed with an admirable diligence and dexterity,, 

 drawing these bodies out of their hands, being whole, and 

 much imbalmed, whereby he extinguished a great number 

 of idolatries which they committed. The Indians tooke it 

 ill that the Ynca did intitle himselfe Viracocha, which is 

 the name of their God: and he to excuse himselfe, gave 

 them to vnderstand that the same Viracocha appeared to 

 him in his dreame, commanding him to take this name. To 

 him succeeded Pachacuti Ynca Yupanqui, who was a very 

 valiant conquerour, a great politician, and an inventor of a 

 great part of the traditions and superstitions of their idol- 

 atrie, as I will presently shew. 



CHAP. xxi. Of Pachacuii Ynca Yupanqui, and what hap 

 pened in Ids time vnto Guaynacapa. 



Pachacuti Ynca Yupanqui reigned seventy yeares, and 

 conquered many Countries. The beginning of his conquests 

 was by meanes of his eldest brother, who, having held the 

 government in his fathers time, and made warre by his con 

 sent, was over-throwne in a battle against the Chancas, a 

 Nation which inhabites the valley of Andahuaylas thirty or 

 forty leagues from Cusco, vpon the way to Lima. This 

 elder brother thus defeated, retyred himselfe with few men. 

 The which Ynca Yupanqui, his yonger brother seeing, de 

 vised and gave forth that, being one day alone and rnelan- 



