[74] Tschudi, ibid.

[75] Cf. Spanish MS. cited by Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 4, sec. 15.

[76] Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.

[77] Cf. Garcilasso, Lib. v. cap. xxi., where the current etymology of the word is rejected.

[78] See Müller, pp. 313 sqq., where all the views concerning him are collected and discussed.

[79] This hymn was found by Garcilasso (see Lib. ii. cap. xvii., pp. 50, 51, in Rycaut's translation) among the papers of Father Blas Valera, and has been freed by Tschudi from the misprints, &c., that disfigured it in the printed editions of Garcilasso and all subsequent reproductions. See Tschudi, Vol. II. p. 381.

[80] Johannes de Laet, Lib. x. cap. i. (p. 398, ll. 51, 52).

[81] Prescott, Bk. i. chap. i.; Garcilasso, Lib. vi. cap. xxx.

[82] Gomara, p. 233a; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 2, sec. 4.

[83] Garcilasso, Lib. ii. capp. ii. iii.

[84] See Montesinos, pp. 3 sqq., whose version of the legend has been mainly followed in the text. Cf. however, for some of the details, Garcilasso, Lib. i. cap. xviii. (omitted by Rycaut); Acosta, Lib. i. cap. xxv.; Balboa, pp. 4 sqq., &c.

[85] Velasco, Lib. ii. § 4, sec. 17; Ph. H. Külb in Widenmann and Hauff's "Reisen u. Länderbeshreibungen," Lief, xxvii.: Stuttgart, 1843, pp. 186-7.

[86] Acosta, Lib. v. cap. iv.; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 4, sec. 16; Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.; Külb, ibid.

[87] Prescott, ibid. In cloudy weather they had recourse to the method of friction.

[88] Prescott, ibid.

[89] Arriaga, pp. 17, 32; Külb, ibid.

[90] Cf. Arriaga, pp. 10-17, &c. (cf. Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. pp. 13, 14).

[91] Acosta, Lib. v. cap. v.; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, sec. 2; Arriaga, ibid.

[92] Tschudi, Vol. II. pp. 396-7.

[93] Arriaga, p. 18 (cf. Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. p. 15).

[94] Cf. Arriaga, pp. 10-17 (cf. Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. pp. 13, 14); Acosta, Lib. v; cap. v.; Montesinos, pp. 161-2; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, sec. 1.

[95] On the priesthood, cf. Arriaga, pp. 17 sqq. (cf. Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. p. 15); Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.; Balboa, p. 29; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, sec. 8; Garcilasso, Lib. v. capp. viii. (ad fin.) xii. xiii.; Müller, p. 387; Külb, l.c. p. 187.

[96] Cf. Acosta, Lib. v. cap. xv.; Montesinos, p. 56; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, sec. 12, § 9, sec. 10; Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii. and elsewhere.

[97] Cf. Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.; Garcilasso, Lib. iii. capp. xx.-xxiv.; Paul Chaix, Vol. I. pp. 249 sqq. On the temples of Pachacamac, which must have attained gigantic proportions before the time of the Incas, see Hutchinson, Vol. I. pp. 147-176.

[98] Richard Inwards, "The Temple of the Andes:" London, 1884.

[99] Acosta, Lib, v. cap. xviii.; Garcilasso, Lib. ii. cap. viii. (p. 31 in Rycaut), Lib. vi. cap. xxi.; Arriaga, p. 77.

[100] Acosta, ibid.; Arriaga, pp. 24-27 (cf. Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. pp. 15, 16); Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.

[101] Velasco, Lib. ii. § 4, sec. 20.

[102] Acosta, ibid.; Arriaga, ibid.

[103] Garcilasso, Lib. i. cap. xi., Lib. ii. cap. xviii., Lib. iv. cap. xv., and elsewhere (pp. 6, &c., in Rycaut, who omits some of the passages).

[104] Montesinos, p. 121; Acosta, Lib. v. capp. v. xix., Lib. vi. cap. xxii.; Prescott, Bk. i. chaps, i. ii.; Garcilasso, Lib. vi. cap. v.; Acosta, Lib. v. cap. vii.; Velasco, Lib. iii. § 1, sec. 1.

[105] Gomara, p. 234 a. Cf. Montesinos, p. 68, and Pöppig in Ersch u. Gruber's "Encyklopädie," art. Incas, p. 287 b, note 35.

[106] Garcilasso, Lib. ii. capp. xxii, xxiii. (pp. 43, 44, in Rycaut); Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iv.; Acosta, Lib. vi. cap. iii.

[107] Garcilasso, Lib. v. cap. ii.; Tschudi, Vol. II. p. 382; Rivero y Tschudi: Antigüedades Peruanas: Viena, 1851. pp. 135-141. N. B. An English translation of this work by F. L. Hawks appeared at New York in 1853.

[108] Velasco, Lib. ii. § 5, secc. 4, 17 (Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVIII. pp. 137, 148-9); Külb, l.c. p. 190.

[109] Garcilasso, Lib. vi. capp. xx.-xxii.; Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.

[110] Acosta, Lib. v. cap. xxviii. [wrongly numbered xxvii. in the original edition]; Garcilasso, Lib. vii. capp. vi. vii.

[111] Acosta, ibid.

[112] Acosta, ibid.; Garcilasso, Lib. vi. capp. xxiv.-xxvii.

[113] Cf. Acosta, ibid.; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 5.

[114] Gomara, p. 233 b; Garcilasso, Lib. ii. cap. xxiii.; cf. Montesinos, pp. 67, 68.

[115] Balboa, pp. 29, 30.

[116] Cf. Arriaga, pp. 17-23, and passim (Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. p. 15).

[117] See Prescott, ibid.

[118] Cf. Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, secc. 4, 5.

[119] Balboa, p. 3; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, sec. 6; Arriaga, pp. 28, 29 (Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. pp. 16, 17).

[120] Cf. Tschudi, Vol. II. pp. 355-6, 397-8.

[121] Acosta, Lib. v. capp. vi. vii.; Velasco, Lib. ii. § 3, sec. 3; Arriaga, p. 15 (cf. Ternaux-Compans, Vol. XVII. p. 14); Garcilasso, Lib. ii. capp. ii. (Supay), vii. (omitted by Rycaut); Prescott, Bk. i. chap. iii.

[122] Compare W. B. Stevenson, "A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America:" London, 1825, Vol. I. pp. 394 sqq.


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