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ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



(!) p. 267. "On the ridge of the Chain of the Andes 

 or Antis." 



The Inca Garcilaso, who was well acquainted with the 

 language of his country and was fond of dwelling on ety- 

 mologies, always calls the Chain of the Andes las Montanas 

 de los Antis. He says positively, that the great Mountain 

 chain east of Cuzco derived its name from the tribe of the 

 Antis, and the Province of Anti which is to the east of the 

 Capital of the Incas. The Quaternary division of the 

 Peruvian Empire according to the four quarters of the 

 Heavens, reckoned from Cuzco, borrowed its terminology 

 not from the very circumstantial words taken which sig- 

 nify East, West, North, and South in the Quichua lan- 

 guage (intip lluscinanpata, intip yaucunanpata, intip chau- 

 tuta chayananpata, intip chaupuuchau chayananpata) but 

 from the names of the Provinces and of the tribes or races, 

 (Provincias llamadas Anti, Cunti, Chincha y Colla), which 

 are east, west, north, and south of the Centre of the Empire 

 (the city of Cuzco) . The four parts of the Inca- theocracy 

 are called accordingly Antisuyu, Cuntisuyu, Chinchasuyu, 

 and Collasuyu. The word suyu signifies " strip," and also 

 "part." Notwithstanding the great distance, Quito be- 



