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of bowls (some writers 

 say it was chess), and in 

 the quarrel that ensued 

 the Inca was killed. 



Two of his sons ruled 

 in turn in his stead, so 

 that for 35 years the coun- 

 try about Vitcos was gov- 

 erned by the Incas, and 

 was all that was left to 

 them of their magnificent 

 South American empire. 



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VITCOS 



When the famous Pe- 

 ruvian geographer, Rai- 

 mondi, visited this region 

 about the middle of the 

 19th century, no one seems 

 to have thought of telling 

 him that there were any 

 ruins hereabouts. H e 

 knew that the young Inca 

 Manco had established 

 himself somewhere in this 

 region, and he also knew 

 that interesting ruins had 

 been found at Choqque- 

 quirau, and described by 

 the French explorer, Sar- 

 tiges, in the Revue des 

 Deux Mondes in 1851, so 

 Raimondi concluded that 

 the ruins of Choqque- 

 quirau must be those of 

 the last Inca's long-lost 

 capital. 



Raimondi's proofs of 

 the coincidence of Choq- 

 quequirau and the Inca 

 capital are very vague, but 

 as long as the only ruins 

 reported from this region 

 were those of Choqque- 

 quirau, nearly all the Pe- 

 ruvian writers, including 

 the eminent geographer, 

 Paz-Soldan, fell in with 

 the idea that this was the 

 refuge of Manco, 



The word "Choqque- 

 quirau" means "cradle of 

 gold," and this lent color 

 to the story in the ancient 

 chronicles that the Inca 

 Ah 



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