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habitations, where they might live in human society, 

 c and subsist upon such food as was appropriated to man, 

 4 and not to beasts. These, .and similar declarations 

 4 were announced to such savages as they met in the 

 1 mountains and deserts, who, in beholding the grace 



* of their countenances, the jewels, and the gay attire 

 1 with which these two persons were adorned, and in 

 i listening to the gentleness and sweetness of their 

 1 words, acknowledged them to be th true Children of 

 1 the Sun, and such as were appointed to cause their 

 1 people to assemble into societies, and to administer 

 1 such kinds of food as were wholesome, and adapted 



* to human sustenance. They were struck with such 

 6 admiration at the sight of their figure and person, 

 4 and allured with the promises they made them, that 

 t they gave entire credence to their words, obeyed 

 1 them as their princes, and adored them as superior 



* beings. And these poor wretches, relating these 

 ' sayings one to another, the fame so increased, that 

 ' great numbers, both men and women, flocked to- 

 c gether, and were willing to follow to what place 



* soever they should guide them. 



1 Thus, great multitudes of people being assembled 

 1 together, the princes commanded that provision 

 4 should be made of such fruits as the earth produced 

 1 for their sustenance, lest they should be scattered 

 4 abroad again in small numbers, to gain their food. 

 1 Our Inca taught some of his subjects those labours, 

 'which appertain unto men, as to build houses, plough, 

 1 sow the land with maize and divers sort of seeds, 

 f that were useful or fit for food ; to which end he in- 

 1 structed them how to make ploughs and other im- 

 ' plements necessary for the purpose ; he showed them 

 ' also how to make aqueducts and reservoirs for hold- 

 1 ing water, and various other arts tending to the more 

 t commodious well-being of human life. He employed 



* others to gather and tame 'the llamas and more gentle 

 ' sorts of cattle into flocks, which ran dispersed and 

 { wild through the mountains-and woods, that garments 

 ' might be made of their wool, and shoes of their 



