Hiftorie of the Indies, lib.?. 379 



(peaking certaine Wordes , according to the qualitie o^ 

 the (acrifice they flew: for if it were of colour, their 

 wordes were direded to Cbuqwlla, and to the Thun- 

 der,that they might want no water : if it were white & 

 fmoothe , they did offer it to the Sunnc with certaine 

 wordes : if it had a fleece, they did likewife offer it him 

 with fome others, that he might fliine vponthem and 

 favour their generation : If it were a Guanaco, which is 

 gray,they direded their facrifice to yiracocha. In Cufio 

 they did every yeare kill and iacrifice with this ceremo- 

 ny 5 afhorne(heepc to theSunne,and did burneit , clad 

 in a red wafte-coate,and when they did burneit , they 

 caft certaine fmall baskets of Coca into the fire, which 

 they call Vilcaronc^ for which facrifice, they have both 

 m n and beads appointed which (erve to no other vfe. 

 They did likewife facrifice fmall birdes , although it 

 were not fb vfuall in Peru as in Mexico , where the (a- 

 crificing of quailes was very ordinaric. Thofe of Pern 

 did facrifice the birdes otPttna, (for fo they call the de- 

 fart when they fhould go to the warres, for to weaken 

 the forces of their adversaries GUACM. They called 

 thefe facrificcs Cuzjovicca, or ContewccAy or ffttailavtix. 

 ca, or Stphwicca, and they did it in this maner : they 

 tooke many kindes of (mall birdes of the dcfart , and 

 gathered a great deale of a thornie wood, which they 

 call r<*0///,thc which being kindled, they gathered to 

 gether thefe fmall birdes . This aflembly they cal 

 led MCO, then did they caft thenf into the fire, about 

 die which the officers of the facrifice went with ccr 

 taine round ftones carved, whereon were painted ma 

 ny (hakes, lions,toades, and tigrcs,vtteringthis word, 

 VfAchum, which fignifies, let the vi&oric be given vnto 

 vs, with other wordes, whereby they %ed the forces 



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