4I g a M E<Kl C A. Chap. IV. 



call'd the Spaniards Viracochas, and judg'd chat they were come from Heaven to his 

 Delivery, and the more,becaufe his Brother had fpilt io much Blood already : for 

 JttabaUbahzd not onely (lain the Prince Atoco, which led Huafcar's Army, with 

 three thoufand two hundred Men, and drank out of Atoco s Skull tipt with Gold, 

 but had alfo pluck'd out the Harts of above a thoufand Children, which the Canna, 

 rites fent with Palm-Boughs to him, to defire Peace. 

 &*£*% After Jttabalibas and Huafcar's Deceafe, Mango Inga their Brother drove all the 

 EEl " Spaniards out of Cufco, whither they not long after coming with new Forces, necef- 

 fitated Mango, not without the lofs of many Men, to take his flight up into the 

 Mountain Vtlcabamba, where he Setling, his SuccefTors Reign to this day, fecur'd 

 from any Invafion by the natural ftrength of the Place. But the lnga Santopa co- 

 ming from the fore -mentioned Mountain, fubmitted himfelf to the Spaniards, who 

 allow'd him the Valley Yucay to dwell peaceably in ; but the reft of the Family of 

 the Ingas that fell into the Hands of the Spaniards, were all of them kill'd in Cufco, 

 not without great grief of the old Inhabitants, to feefo antient and noble a Family, 

 by which they had been Govern d in great State for three hundred years together, 

 put to death by common Executioners. 

 cup the The City Cufco y which was the Royal Seat of all the Peruvian Kings, was made 

 tklYcrZan mor £ fplendid than ever before, by GuayanacaVa,o( whom Augujlinc de Tarrate, defcr'i* 

 bing his Magnificence,relates, That when his Queen was Deliver'd of a Son, who 

 was to fucceed in the Throne, Guayanacava kept a great Feaft for twenty days toge- 

 ther.and on that day when the Child was to be Nam'd, a Golden Chain, each Link 

 of which was as big as a Hand, and contained in all feven hundred Foot in length, 

 was carried by twenty Peruvians to the Temple. 



The Succeffion of the Ingas was after this manner : The Ingas keeping many 

 Concubines had many Children by them, none of which could lay claim to the 

 Peruvian Crown, but onely the Son begotten on the Coya, or Queen, being generally 

 the Kings own Sifter,(whom they accounted lawful for them to Marry,as in antient 

 times did the Egyptian Kings) Inherited the Realm, unlefs the Inga had a lawful Bro- 

 ther, who Inherited before the Son, though born of a Coya- y or if the faid Brother 

 had a Son, he obtained thedeceafed Uncles Crown before him, who in apparence 

 was the elder Heir. 



The fame Succeffion was alfo obferv'd by other Governors, which the Peruvians 



call Curacfh. 



The Burials of their Kings were perform'd with great folemnity -, and theTrea- 



ofth C ir P Trea- f urcs which, they left behind were beftow'd in building of magnificent Guaba's, 

 which were Temples or religious Houfes, where a kind of folemn Worfliip was to 

 be perform'd, to celebrate the Memory of the Deceafed. Some part of the Trea* 

 fure was alfo diftributed amongft the Ingas Servants; but the Succeflbr inherited 

 not the leaft Mite of what his Predeceffor had gotten, but was fore'd, according 

 to an antient Law, to btiild himfelf a new Palace, and purchas'd anew every thing 

 elfe belonging to it. 



ihcircrovrn. Their Crown or Diadem was-onely a fine red wGollen Coif with a Taflel, 

 that hung down over their Foreheads, which other meaner Princes wore hanging 

 on their right Ear. 



Their coro- Their Coronations were alfo kept in great Pomp and State, the Nobility and 

 Priefts coming from all parts of the Countreyto(«/o, befidesan innumerable mul- 

 titude of common People. 



The Noblcmens Prefentsto the Ingas confifted chiefly of Gold and Silver Vef- 

 fels, fine Cloth call'd Cumbi, all forts of Sea-fhells, and (lately Plumes of Feathers of 

 ineftimablc value. Thoufands 



The manner 

 of the Suc- 

 ce/fion of 

 their Kings. 



Their Burials 

 anddifpofal 



nations. 



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