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represented the sword which Perseus holds in his right 



hand. (Madler, Astronomie, 1846, S. 307 ; Schnurrer, 



Die Chrouik der Seuchen in Verbindung mit gleichzeitigen 



Erscheinungen, 1825, Th. ii. S. 82.) Robertson considers 



the year of Huajna Capac's death uncertain; but, from the 



researches of Balboa and Velasco, that event appears to have 



occurred towards the close of 1525 : thus the statements of 



Hevelius (Cometographia, p. 844), and of Pingre (T. i. 



p. 485), derive confirmation from the testimony of Garcilaso 



(P. i. p. 321) and the tradition preserved among the 



" amautas, que son los filosofos de aquella Republica." I 



may here introduce the remark, that Oviedo alone, and 



certainly erroneously, asserts, in the inedited continuation of 



his Historia de las Indias, that the proper name of the Inca 



was not Atahuallpa, but Atabaliva (Prescott, Conquest of 



Peru, Vol. i. p. 498.) 



The sum mentioned in the text is that which is stated by 

 Garcilaso de la Vega in the Commentaries reales de los 

 Incas, Parte ii. 1722, pp. 27 and 51. The statements of 

 Padre Bias Valera and of Gomara, Historia de las Indias, 

 1553, p. 67, differ, however, considerably. Compare my 

 Essai politique sur la Nouvelle Espagne (ed. 2), T. iii. 

 p. 424). It is, moreover, no less difficult to determine the 

 value of the Ducado, Castellano, or Peso de Oro. (Essai 

 pol. T. iii. pp. 371 and 377; Joaquin Acosta, Descubri- 

 miento de la Nueva Granada, 1848, p. 14.) The modern 

 excellent historical writer, Prescott, has been able to avail 



