316 PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA. 



himself of a manuscript bearing the very promising title, 

 " Acta de Repartition del Kescate de Atahuallpa." The 

 estimate of the whole Peruvian booty which the brothers 

 Pizarro and Almagro divided amongst themselves at the 

 (I believe) too large value of three and a half millions of 

 pounds sterling, includes doubtless the gold of the ransom 

 and that taken from the different temples of the Sun and 

 from the enchanted gardens, (Huertas de Oro). (Prescott, 

 Conquest of Peru, Vol. i. pp. 464-477.) 



( 16 ) p. 292." The great, but, for a Son of the Sun, 

 somewhat free-thinking Huayna Capac" 



The nightly absence of the Sun excited in the Inca many 

 philosophical doubts as to the government of the world by 

 that luminary. Padre Bias Valera noted down the remarks 

 of the Inca on the subject of the Sun : " Many maintain 

 that the Sun lives, and is the Maker and Doer of all things 

 (el hacedor de todas las cosas) ; but whoever would com- 

 plete any thing must remain by what he is doing. Now 

 many things take place when the Sun is absent ; therefore 

 he is not the original cause of all things. It seems also 

 doubtful whether he is living; for though always circling 

 round, he is never weary (no se cansa). If he was living, 

 he would become weary, as we do ; and if he was free, he 

 would surely move sometimes into parts of the heavens 

 where we never see him. The Sun is like an animal 

 fastened by a cord so as always to move in the same 

 round, (como una Res atada que siempre hace un mismo 

 cerco) ; or as an arrow which only goes where it is sent, 



