HOUSE OF THE INCA AT CALLO ; 



KINGDOM OF QUITO, 



PLATE XXIV. 



When Tupac-Yupanqui and Huayna-Capac, 

 father of the unfortunate Atahualpa, had com- 

 pleted the conquest of the kingdom of Quito, 

 they not only caused magnificent roads to be 

 formed on the ridge of the Cordilleras, but, in 

 order to facilitate the communications between 

 the capital and the most northerly provinces of 

 their empire, they ordered their inns (tambos), 

 magazines, and houses, for the prince. and his 

 suite, should be built on the road from Cuzco to 

 Quito, at regular distances. These tambos, and 

 houses of the Inca, to which other travellers have 

 given the name of palaces, existed during se- 

 veral ages in that part of the great road which 

 leads from Cuzco to Caxamarca. The country 

 is indebted to the last conquerors of the race of 

 Manco-Capac only for the construction of those 

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