The antient 

 Palaces and 



Cufc: 



+tfo A M E%^IC A. Chap. IV. 



daily, he was permitted to dwell no where but in that Ward which fronted his na- 

 tive Countrey. The four high Streets, which through thefe Wards one way fall in* 

 to the Market-place, being in the middle of the City, are the other way anfwera- 

 ble to the four principal High-ways, vi^ that which leads to Quito and Pafto 

 through Cbinchafuyo - y to jirthuipa, through Condefuyo> y to the Mountains ^w^,throuoh 

 Andefuyo ; and to Chili y through Collafuyo. The two Rivers before mentioned, which 

 part at the Eaftcnd of the City, are pafs'd over with divers Bridges. The narrow 

 Streets are full of Stone Houfes, built in good Order. In feveral places are 

 Vaulted Cellars under Ground, in fome of which are buried great Treafures : 

 they had been formerly the Habitations for Necromancers and Soothfayers 5 for 

 this fort of People were once in great efteem amongft the Inhabitants, who co- 

 ming from Chili, Paflo, < Bocamores i Topona, Bombon, Cbarcas, Collao y Cbiacbiapoias, Con- 

 chucos, and other Peruvian Countreys, receive great benefit from the frefh Water 

 and from the Corn-Mills built on the Streets through the City. 

 The (lately Palaces which the Peruvian Nobility have at feveral times built in Oren- 

 Ztrtwst Cufco, being one part of the City, are very wonderful, the Owners whereof were 

 fore'd by the Ingas to appear at Court at Set-times, that fo he might prevent all In- 

 furre&ions : Alfohe caus'd the Children of the prime Lords to be brought up in 

 Cufco, under pretence that they might learn the Cufcoan Tongue perfectly, in which 

 the Ingas would always be fpokento- whenas their Defign was to keep them as 

 Hoftages in their own Jurifdi&ions, that their Fathers might not rebel . by which 

 means it hapned, that in moll places of Peru, which amongft the feveral Tribes and 

 Principalities had feveral Languages, the Cufcoan Tongue was underftood and Ipo- 

 ken. But the Spaniards, who are the prefent PofTefTors thereof, have alter'd and re* 

 pair'd moll of the ordinary Houfes, which are now neatly built of Stone. Above all 

 the old Structures, the Palace of the Ingas , and the Temple of the Sun, are the moil 

 magnificent ; the Palace lies inclos'd within a fquare quadruple Wall, each corner 

 whereof is adorn'd and ftrengthned with a Tower : The Palace it felf is built 

 round, and with Arches . but that which chiefly amazes the Beholder is to 

 fee how the Stones, which are fo big that forty Horfes are not able to ftir one of 

 them out of its place, were brought thither by the Labor of the Builders from the 

 neighboring Mountains . for the Peruvians never made ufe of any laboring Bead, 

 except their Sheep Pacos, not knowing the ufe of Horfes, Camels, Oxen, Ele- 

 phants, or the like, before the Spaniards coming thither. The Halls within the Pa- 

 lace were Wainfcoted with Golden Plates : yet the Inga's Apparel was not anfwer- 

 able to the reft of his Pomp 5 for in ftead of a Crown they bound their Heads 

 about with a red woollen Safti, with which they almoft cover'd their Eyes - at the 

 end of the Safli hung certain Ribbands, which they gave the Governor as occafi- 

 on offer'd,that by this Sign, as by a Commiflion, they might exercife their Offices • 

 the fight of which String caus'd fuch Obedience, that if the Inga had commanded 

 the Inhabitants of a Town or Countrey to murder themfelves, none durft deny. 

 The Inga was generally carried by a hundred of his Noble-men, of whom if any 

 one had accidentally chane'd to ftumble, he was immediately put to death. No 

 man durft prefume to look him in the Face, or fpeak to him without a Prefent. 



The Temple Curicanche, Dedicated to the Sun, was certainly the mod rich and 

 fumptuous that ever the World boafted, it being Govern'd by the Chief Prieft 

 VtUanoa. The Inga GuainacaVa fpent an invaluable Treafure in the building of this 

 Structure, for he cover'd the Roof and Walls with thick Plates of maflieGold and 

 Silver. At his return home from the Conqueft of the Province of Quito, from 

 whence the Inhabitants^ccording to an aotient Cuftom of the Ingas 7 wcxc carried to 



one 



The Temple 

 Curicantfo, 



