HOUSE OF THE INCA AT CALLO, 
IN THE 
KINGDOM OF QUITO, 
PLATE XXIV. 
When Tupac-Yupanqui and Hnayna-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 (tamhos)y 
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 df the race of 
Manco-Capac only for the construction of those 
VOL. XIV. 
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