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were present in mourning habits (!), it was conveyed first to 

 the churchyard of the convent of San Francisco, and after- 

 wards to Quito, Atahuallpa' s birthplace. This last transfer 

 was in compliance with the expressed wish of the dying 

 Inca. His personal enemy, the astute Rumifiavi (" stone- 

 eye," a name given from the disfigurement of one eye by a 

 wart ; " rumi," signifying " stone," and " naui," " eye," in 

 the Quichua language), from political motives caused the 

 body to be buried at Quito with solemn obsequies. 



We found descendants of the monarch, the family of the 

 Indian Cacique Astorpilco, dwelling in Caxamarca, among 

 the melancholy ruins of ancient departed splendour, and 

 living in great poverty and privation; but patient and 

 uncomplaining. Their descent from Atahuallpa through the 

 female line has never been doubted in Caxamarca, but traces of 

 beard may perhaps indicate some admixture of Spanish blood. 

 Of the sons of the Great (but for a child of the sun some- 

 what free thinking), ( 16 ) Huayna Capac, neither of the two 

 who swayed the sceptre before the arrival of the Spaniards, 

 Huascar and Atahuallpa, left behind them acknowledged 

 sons. Huascar became the prisoner of Atahuallpa in the 

 plains of Quipaypan, and was soon afterwards secretly mur- 

 dered by his order. Neither were there any surviving male 

 descendants of the two remaining brothers of Atahuallpa, the 

 insignificant youth Toparca, who Pizarro caused to be crowned 

 as Inca in the autumn of 1553, and the enterprising Manco 

 Capac, similarly crowned, but who afterwards rebelled again. 

 Atahuallpa left indeed a son, whose Christian name was Don 

 Francisco, (but who died very young), and a daughter, 



