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THE TWO RACES WHICH PEOPLED POLYNESIA. 
The account of the architectural remains in Yucatan, given 
by Stephens, seems to confirm this idea. There can be no 
doubt, whatever might be the character of the picture tablets of 
lake at sun rise ; they did so, and found them there, and immediately 
declared them to be the children of their god, and their supreme governors. 
Elated with his success Cocapac was determined to be revenged on the In- 
dians of Cusco ; for this purpose he privately instructed his grandchildren in 
what he intended to do, and then informed the tribe that the Viracochas , Ingas- 
man Cocapac, had determined to search for the place where he was to reside : 
he bid them take their arms and follow him, saying, wherever he struck his 
golden rod or sceptre into the ground, that was the spot where he chose to 
remain. The young man and woman directed their course to the plains of 
Cusco, where having arrived the signal was given, and the Indians there sur- 
prised by the reappearance of the Viracochas , and overawed by the number of 
their attendants, accepted them as their rulers and as the children of their sun 
god. — Stephenson' s Travels in South America , vol. i. p. 394 
When Her British Majesty’s ship Breton was at Calloa, some of the 
officers accompanied me one Sunday afternoon to the Alameda at Lima : on 
our way we were saluted by several Indians from the mountains, calling us 
their countrymen and their relations, begging at the same time that we would 
drink some chicha with them. 
There is a curious analogy between this tradition and one that I had from 
the mouth of Don Santos Pires, at Rio de Janeiro, in 1823. He told me that 
before the discovery of the Brazils, an Englishman had been shipwrecked, and 
fell into the hands of the Coboculo Indians ; he had preserved or obtained 
from the wreck a musket and some ammunition, with which he had both ter- 
rified and pleased the Indians, who called him Carnaruru , the man of fire, and 
elected him their king. He taught them several things of which they were 
before ignorant (as did Manco Capac and Mama Oelle, the Peruvians) ; he 
was alive at the conquest of the country, and was carried to Portugal, when 
Emanuel granted him a valley near to Bahia, independent of the crown Don 
Santos is the brother of the Baron de Torre, both lineal descendants of Car- 
naruru , of which he boasted not a little, adding, that to the present time none 
of the lineal descendants had ever married a Portuguese. The Muysca Indians 
of the plains of Cundinamarca have a white man with a beard, called Bochicha, 
]M emquetheba, or Suhe, for under these different nameshe is spoken of as their 
legislator. This old man, like Manco Capac, taught them to build huts and 
live in communities, to till the ground and to harvest the produce ; as also to 
clothe themselves, with other comforts ; but his wife, Chia, Yubecayguaya, or 
Huythaca, for she is also known by three different names, was not like Mama 
Oelle, who taught the females to spin, to weave, and to dye the clothes. Chia, 
on the contrary, opposed and thwarted every enterprize for the public good 
adopted by Bochicha, who, like Manco Capac, was the child of the sun, dried 
the soil, promoted agriculture, and established wise laws. The Inca did not 
separate the ecclesiastical authority from the political, as Bochicha did, but 
established a theocracia. The first opened ah outlet to the lake Titicaca, for 
the benefit of his subjects, at a place now called Desaguadero , the outlet ; 
