432 MUMMIES OF THE YNCAS. 



LIU. vi. were since converted into stones; it was therefore neces 

 sary to seeke them out whome he would know well. By 

 this meanes hee gathered together a multitude of stones in 

 the mountaines, whereof he made choice, placing them for 

 Guacas, or Idolls, they worshipped and sacrificed vnto ; they 

 called them Pururaucas, 1 and carried them to the warre with 

 great devotion, beleeving for certaine that they had gotten 

 the victory by their help. The imagination and fiction of 

 this Ynca was of such force, that by the means thereof hee 

 obtained goodly victories. He founded the family called 

 Ynacapanaca, and made a great image of golde, which hee 

 called Ynti-yllapa, which hee placed in a brancard of golde, 

 very rich, and of great price, of the which gold the Indians 

 took great store to carry to Caxamarca for the libertie and 

 ransome of Atahualpa, when the Marquis Francisco Pizarro 

 held him prisoner. The Licentiate Polo found in his house 

 in Cusco his servants and Mamaconas, which did service to 

 his memorie, and found that the body had beene transported 

 from Patallacta to Totocachi, where the Spaniards have 

 since founded the parish of San Bias. This body was so 

 whole and preserved with a certaine rosin, that it seemed 

 alive; he had his eyes made of a fine cloth of golde, so arti 

 ficially set, as they seemed very naturall eyes ; he had a 

 blowe with a stone on the head, which he had received in 

 the warres ; he was all grey and hairy, having lost no more 

 haire than if hee had died but the same day, although it 

 were seaventy and eight yeares since his decease. The 

 foresaid Polo sent this body with some others of the Yncas 

 to the cittie of Lima, by the viceroycs commaund, which 

 was the Marquis of Curiete, and the which was very neces 

 sary to root out the idolatry of Cusco. Many Spaniards 

 have scene this body with others in the hospital of San 

 Andres, which the Marquis built, but they were much de 

 cayed. Don Felipe Caritopa, who was grand-child or 

 1 Sec d. tie la TW/r/, ii, p. 57. 



