30 MEMOIK ON 



' every day I take a turn around the world to see and 

 i discover the wants and necessities of all things, in 



* order that, as their true fomenter and parent, I may 



* apply myself to their succour and redress. Thus, 

 1 after my example, and as my children, sent upon 



- 4 the earth, I would have you imitate me, and to instil 



* such doctrine into this people as may convert them 

 1 from beasts unto men. And henceforth I constitute 

 i and ordain you king and queen over this nation, 

 4 that by your instructions, reason, and government, 

 ' they may be preserved. After our Father, the Sun, 

 c had thus declared his pleasure to these, his two 

 c children, he dispatched them from him ; and, in 

 c taking their journey northward from Titicaca, at 

 1 every place where they came to repose, they tried to 

 i strike their wedge into the ground, but to no effect ; 

 ' but, at length they arrived at a little inn or place of 



* rest, in the valley of Cuzco, where they again struck 

 1 their wedge of gold into the earth, which received it 

 i with the greatest ease, and which sucked it in, and 

 1 they saw it no more. Then, said the Inca to his 

 c sister and wife in this valley, our Father, the Sun, 

 1 hath commanded that we should stay, and make our 

 1 abode, and in so doing we shall obey his will ; in 

 1 pursuance whereof, it is necessary that we now 

 ' separate from each other, and take different ways 



* that we may assemble and draw the people together 

 1 in such manner as we may be able to preach and 

 4 propagate the doctrine among them, which has been 

 ' committed to us. Our Inca, accordingly, took his 

 i way northward, and his wife to the southward, and 

 ' to all the men and women, whom they met in the 

 1 wild forests and uncultivated places, they declared to 

 4 them that their Father, the Sun, had sent them to be 



* teachers and benefactors, and to deliver them from 

 1 the savage life they led to another, more agree- 

 4 able to reason, justice, and liumanity. And in fur- 

 ' ther pursuance of the commands of our Father, the 

 1 Sun, they had come to gather these people from the 

 4 mountains and rude places, to more convenient 



