ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 447 



considerably. (Compare my Essai politique sur la Nouvelle Espagne 

 (ed. 2), 1. iii. p. 424.) It is, moreover-, no less difficult to determine 

 the value of the Ducado, Castellano, or Peso de Oro. (Essai pol., 

 t. iii. pp. 371 and 377; Joaquin Acosta, Descubrimiento de la 

 Nueva Granada, 1848, p. 14.) The modern excellent historical 

 writer, Prescott, has been able to avail himself of a manuscript 

 bearing the very promising title, "Acta de Reparticion del Rescate 

 de Atahuallpa." The estimate of the whole Peruvian booty which 

 the brothers- Pizarro and Almagro divided amongst themselves at 

 the (I believe) too large value of three and a half millions of pounds 

 sterling, includes doubtless the gold of the ransom and that taken 

 from the different temples of the Sun and from the enchanted 

 gardens (Huertas de Oro). (Prescott, Conquest of Peru, vol. i. pp. 

 464-477.)' 



( 16 ) p. 4aO. " The great, but, for a Son of the Sun, somewhat 

 free-thinking Huayna Capac" 



The nightly absence of the Sun excited in the Inca many philo- 

 sophical doubts as to the government of the world by that luminary. 

 Padre Bias Valera noted down the remarks of the Inca on the 

 subject of the Sun: " Many maintain that the Sun lives, and is the 

 Maker and Doer of all things (el hacedor de todas las cosas) ; but 

 whoever would complete anything must remain by what he is doing. 

 Now many things take place when the Sun is absent; therefore he 

 is not the original cause of all things. It se&ms also doubtful 

 whether he is living ; for, though always circling round, he is never 

 weary (no se cansa). If he was living, he would become weary, as 

 we do; and if he was free,, he would surely move sometimes into 

 parts of the heavens where we never see him. The Sun is like an 

 animal fastened by a cord so as always to move in the same round 

 (como una Res atada que siempre hace un mismo cerco); or as an 

 arrow which only goes where it is sent, and not where it chooses 

 itself." (Garcilasso, Comment. Reales, p. i. lib. viii. cap. 8, p. 276.) 

 The view taken of the circling round of a heavenly body, as if it 

 was fastened to a cord, is very striking. As Huayna Capac died 

 at Quito in 1525, seven years before the arrival of the Spaniards, 

 he no doubt used, instead of "res atada," the general expression of 



