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them liberty to go wtich way they pleased, and that, in what place 

 soever they stopped to eat, or sleep, they should strike a little wedge 

 of gold into the ground, which was about half a yard long, and two 

 fingers thick, and where, with one stroke this wedge should sink into 

 the earth, there should be the place of their abode, and the court 

 unto which all people should come. Lastly, he ordered that when 

 they should have subjected these people to the rules of obedience, 

 they should maintain them with reason, justice, piety, clemency, and 

 gentlenesSj performing all the good offices of indulgent parents to- 

 wards the children they lovej and that in imitation of him, and by 

 his example who doeth good to all the world, by affording them light 

 to perform their work, and the actions of life; warming them when 

 they are cold; making their pastures and their seeds to grow, their 

 trees to fructify, and their flocks to increase; and watering their lands 

 with timely dews. And in order to manifest his earthly care, he saidy 

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

 wants and necessities of all things, in order that, as their true fomen- 

 ter and parent, I may apply myself to their succour and redress. 

 Thus, after my example, and as my children, sent upon the earth, I 

 would have you imitate me, and to instil such doctrine into this peo- 

 ple as may convert them from beasts into men. And henceforth I 

 constitute and ordain you king and queen over this nation, that by 

 your instructions, reason, and government, they may be preservecf. 

 After our Father, the Sun, had thus declared his pleasure to these^ 

 his two children, he despatched them from him; and, in taking their 

 journey northward from Titicaca, at every place where they came to 

 repose, they tried to 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 their wedge of gold 

 into the earth; which received it with the greatest ease, and which 

 sucked it in, and they saw it no more. Then, said the Inca to his 

 sister and wife — in this valley, our Father, the Sun, hath command- 

 ded that we should stay, and make our abode, and in so doing we 

 shall obey his will; in pursuance thereof, it is necessary that we now 

 separate from each other, and take different ways that we may as- 

 semble and draw the people together in such manner as we may be 

 able to preach and propagate the doctrine among them, which has 

 been committed to us. Our Inca, accordingly, took his way north- 

 ward, and his wife to the southward, and to all the men and women, 

 whom they met in the wild forests and uncultivated places, they de- 

 clared to them that their Father, the Sun, had sent them to be teach- 

 ers and benefactors, and to deliver them from the savage life they 

 led to another, more agreeable to reason, justice, and humanity. And 



