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much as a hair of an eyebrow wanting.' As they were 

 carried through the streets, decently shrouded with a 

 mantle, the Indians threw themselves on their knees, in 

 sign of reverence, with many tears and groans, and were 

 still more touched as they beheld some of the Spaniards 

 themselves doffing their caps in token of respect to 

 departed royalty. {Ibid, ubi supra.) The bodies were 

 subsequently removed to Lima ; and Father Acosta, who 

 saw them there some twenty years later, speaks of them 

 as still in perfect preservation]" (58, pp. 19 and 20). 



Later on in the same work Prescott, relying again 

 on the somewhat questionable authority of Garcilasso's 

 works, makes a statement which in some respects may 

 seem to be at variance with what I have just quoted : — 



u It was this belief in the resurrection of the body 

 which led them to preserve the body with so much solici- 

 tude — by a simple process, however, that unlike the 

 elaborate embalming of the Egyptians, consisted in ex- 

 posing it to the action of the cold, exceedingly dry and 

 highly rarified atmosphere of the mountains. [Note. — 

 Such indeed seems to be the opinion of Garcilasso, though 

 some writers speak of resinous and other applications for 

 embalming the body. The appearance of the royal 

 mummies found at Cuzco, as reported both by Ondegardo 

 and Garcilasso, makes it probable that no foreign sub- 

 stance was employed for their preservation.] As they 

 believed that the occupations in the future world would 

 have great resemblance to those of the present, they 

 buried with the deceased noble some of his apparel, his 

 utensils, and frequently his treasures ; and completed the 

 gloomy ceremony by sacrificing his wives and favourite 

 domestics to bear him company and do him service in 

 the happy regions beyond the clouds. Vast mounds of 

 an irregular or more frequently oblong shape, penetrated 



