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in further pursuance of the commands of our Father, the Sun, they 

 had come to gather these people •from the mountains and rudc^places^ 

 to more convenient habitations, where they might live in human so- 

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

 not to beasts. These, and similar declarations were announced to 

 such savages as they met in the mountains and deserts, vrho, in be- 

 holding the grace of their countenances, the jewels, and the gay at- 

 tire with which these two persons were adorned, and in listening to 

 the gentleness and sweetness of their words, acknowledged them to 

 be the true Children of the Sun, and such as were appointed to cause 

 their people to assemble into societies, and to administer such kinds 

 of food as were wholesome, and adapted to human sustenance. 

 They were struck with such admiration at the sight of their figure 

 and person, and allured with the promises they made them, that they 

 gave entire credence to their words, obeyed them as their princes, 

 and adored them as superior beings. And these poor wretches, re- 

 latmg these sayings one to another, the fame so increased, that great 

 numbers, both men and women, flocked together, and were willing 

 to follow to what place soever they should guide them. 



* Thus great multitudes of people being assembled together, the 

 princes commanded that provision should be made of such fruits as 

 the earth produced for their sustenance, lest they should be scattered 

 abroad again in small numbers, to gain their food. Our Inca taught 

 some of his subjects these labors, which appertain unto men, as to 

 build houses, plough, sow the land with maize and divers sort of 

 seeds, that were useful or fit for food; to which end he instructed 

 them how to make plows and other implements necessary for the 

 purpose; he showed them also how to make aqueducts and reservoirs 

 for holding water, and various other arts tending to the more com- 

 modious 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 gar- 

 ments might be made of their wool, and shoes of their skins. On 

 the other hand, Coya Mama Oello instructed the women the art of 

 spinning and weaving both cotton and wool, to make garments for 

 their husbands, their children, and themselves, with various other of- 

 fices appertaining to a house. In short, nothing was omitted that 

 would conduce to human welfare, which she did not teach her wo- 

 men, and the Inca his men. 



' Being reduced in this manner, these Indians looked on themselves 

 as much bettered in their condition; and with signal acknowledgments 



