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See PUte The Enfign of Roy alty was a Toffel, or Piece of Fringe^ 

 XXXI. G f rec j Wool, hanging on the Middle of their Forehead. 



On the Day of putting that on, there was great Rejoicing 

 among them, as it is with us in Europe at the Coronation 

 of Kings, and many Sacrifices were offer'd, an infinite 

 Number of Veffels of Gold and Silver being then expos'd 

 to publiekView, with little Figures of Flowers, and feve- 

 ral Creatures, efpecially of thofe Sheep of the Country be- 

 fore fpoken of. There are ftill fome found in the Huacas, 

 or Tombs, which now and then are accidentally difco- 

 ver'd. 



face o/Ingas, Notwithftanding the Wars and the Deftm&ion of the /«- 

 dians^ there is ftill a Family of the Race of the Ingas living 

 at Lima y whofe Chief, call'd Ampttero, is acknowledge 

 by the King oil Spain as a Defcendent of the Emperors of 

 Pent: As fuch, his Catholick Majefty gives him the Title 

 of Coufin, and orders the Viceroy, at his entring into Zi- 

 ma, to pay him a Sort of publick Homage. Ampuero fits 

 in a Balcony, under a Canopy, with his Wife,- atid the 

 Viceroy, mounted on a Horfe managed for that Ceremo- 

 ny, caufes him to bow his Knees three times, as paying 

 him Obeyfance fo often. Thus, at every Change of a Vice- 

 roy, they ftill, in Show, honour the Memory of the So- 

 vereignty of that Emperor, whom they have unjuftly de- 

 prived of his Dominions ,* and that of the Memory of the 

 Death of Atahualpa, whom Francis Pizarro caufed to be 

 cruelly murder'd, as is well known. The Indians have 

 not forgot him : The Love they bore their native Kings 

 makes them ftill figh for thofe Times, of which they know 

 nothing, but what they have been told by their Anceftors. 

 In moft of the great Towns up the Country, they revive 

 the Memory of that Death by a Sort of Tragedy they adl 

 in the Streets on the Day of the Nativity of the Virgin. 

 They cloathe themfelves after the ancient Manner, and ftill 

 carry the Images of the Sun their Deity, of the Moon, and 

 of the other Symbols of their Idolatry ; as for inftance, 

 Caps in the Shape of the Heads of Eagles, or the Birds 



