History of the Incas

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COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

THE SECOND PART OF THE GENERAL HISTORY CALLED "INDICA" WHICH

TO HIS SACRED CAESARIAN MAJESTY THE KING, DON FELIPE, OUR LORD.

I. DIVISION OF THE HISTORY.

II. THE ANCIENT DIVISION OF THE LAND.

III. DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT ATLANTIC ISLAND.

IV. FIRST INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD AND PRINCIPALLY OF THE ATLANTIC ISLAND.

V. INHABITANTS OF THE ATLANTIC ISLAND.

VI. THE FABLE OF THE ORIGIN OF THESE BARBAROUS INDIANS OF PERU, ACCORDING TO THEIR BLIND OPINIONS.

VII. FABLE OF THE SECOND AGE, AND CREATION OF THE BARBAROUS INDIANS ACCORDING TO THEIR ACCOUNT.

VIII. THE ANCIENT BEHETRIAS [35] OF THESE KINGDOMS OF PERU AND THEIR PROVINCES.

IX. THE FIRST SETTLERS IN THE VALLEY OF CUZCO.

X. HOW THE INCAS BEGAN TO TYRANNIZE OVER THE LANDS AND INHERITANCES.

XI. THE FABLE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE INCAS OF CUZCO.

XII. THE ROAD WHICH THESE COMPANIES OF THE INCAS TOOK TO THE

XIII. ENTRY OF THE INCAS INTO THE VALLEY OF CUZCO, AND THE FABLES THEY RELATE CONCERNING IT.

XIV. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANCO CCAPAC AND THE ALCABISAS, RESPECTING THE ARABLE LAND.

XV. COMMENCES THE LIFE OF SINCHI ROCCA, THE SECOND INCA.

XVI. THE LIFE OF LLOQUI YUPANQUI, THE THIRD INCA.

XVII. THE LIFE OF MAYTA CCAPAC, THE FOURTH INCA[64].

XVIII. THE LIFE OF CCAPAC YUPANQUI, THE FIFTH INCA[65].

XIX. THE LIFE OF INCA ROCCA, THE SIXTH INCA[68].

XX. THE LIFE OF TITU CUSI HUALPA, VULGARLY CALLED YAHUAR-HUACCAC.

XXI. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE AYAMARCAS HAD STOLEN TITU CUSI HUALPA.

XXII. HOW IT BECAME KNOWN THAT YAHUAR-HUACCAC WAS ALIVE.

XXIII. YAHUAR-HUACCAC INCA YUPANQUI COMMENCES HIS REIGN ALONE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER[73].

XXIV. LIFE OF VIRACOCHA THE EIGHTH INCA[76].

XXV. THE PROVINCES AND TOWNS CONQUERED BY THE EIGHTH INCA VIRACOCHA.

XXVI. THE LIFE OF INCA YUPANQUI OR PACHACUTI[78], THE NINTH INCA.

XXVII COMING OF THE CHANCAS AGAINST CUZCO.

XXVIII. THE SECOND VICTORY OF PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI OVER THE CHANCAS.

XXIX. THE INCA YUPANQUI ASSUMES THE SOVEREIGNTY AND TAKES THE FRINGE, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF HIS FATHER.

XXX. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI REBUILDS THE CITY OF CUZCO.

XXXI. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI REBUILDS THE HOUSE OF THE SUN AND ESTABLISHES NEW IDOLS IN IT.

XXXII. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI DEPOPULATES TWO LEAGUES OF COUNTRY NEAR CUZCO.

XXXIII. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI KILLS HIS ELDER BROTHER NAMED INCA URCO.

XXXIV. THE NATIONS WHICH PACHACUTI INCA SUBJUGATED AND THE

XXXV. THE OTHER NATIONS CONQUERED BY INCA YUPANQUI, EITHER IN PERSON OR THROUGH HIS BROTHER INCA ROCCA.

XXXVI. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI ENDOWS THE HOUSE OF THE SUN WITH GREAT WEALTH.

XXXVII. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI CONQUERS THE PROVINCE OF COLLA-SUYU.

XXXVIII. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI SENDS AN ARMY TO CONQUER THE PROVINCE OF CHINCHAY-SUYU.

XXXIX. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI PLANTS MITIMAES IN ALL THE LANDS HE HAD CONQUERED.

XL. THE COLLAS, SONS OF CHUCHI CCAPAC, REBEL AGAINST INCA YUPANQUI TO OBTAIN THEIR FREEDOM.

XLI. AMARU TUPAC INCA AND APU PAUCAR USNU CONTINUE THE CONQUEST

XLII. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI NOMINATES HIS SON TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI AS HIS SUCCESSOR.

XLIII. HOW PACHACUTI ARMED HIS SON TUPAC INCA.

XLIV. PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI SENDS HIS SON TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI TO CONQUER CHINCHAY-SUYU.

XLV. HOW PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI VISITED THE PROVINCES CONQUERED FOR HIM BY HIS CAPTAINS.

XLVI. TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI SETS OUT, A SECOND TIME, BY ORDER OF

XLVII. DEATH OF PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI.

XLVIII. THE LIFE OF TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI[105], THE TENTH INCA.

XLIX. TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI CONQUERS THE PROVINCE OF THE ANTIS.

L. TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI GOES TO SUBDUE AND PACIFY THE COLLAS.

LI. TUPAC INCA MAKES THE YANACONAS.

LII. TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI ORDERS A SECOND VISITATION OF THE LAND, AND DOES OTHER THINGS.

LIII. TUPAC INCA MAKES THE FORTRESS OF CUZCO.

LIV. DEATH OF TUPAC INCA YUPANQUI.

LV. THE LIFE OF HUAYNA CCAPAC, ELEVENTH INCA[115].

LVI. THEY GIVE THE FRINGE OF INCA TO HUAYNA CCAPAC, THE ELEVENTH INCA.

LVII. THE FIRST ACTS OF HUAYNA CCAPAC AFTER HE BECAME INCA.

LVIII. HUAYNA CCAPAC CONQUERS CHACHAPOYAS.

LIX. HUAYNA CCAPAC MAKES A VISITATION OF THE WHOLE EMPIRE FROM QUITO TO CHILE.

LX. HUAYNA CCAPAC MAKES WAR ON THE QUITOS, PASTOS, CARANGUES, CAYAMBIS, HUANCAVILCAS.

LXI. THE CHIRIHUANAS COME TO MAKE WAR IN PERU AGAINST THOSE CONQUERED BY THE INCAS.

LXII. WHAT HUAYNA CCAPAC DID AFTER THE SAID WARS.

LXIII THE LIFE OF HUASCAR, THE LAST INCA, AND OF ATAHUALPA.

LXIV. HUASCAR INCA MARCHES IN PERSON TO FIGHT CHALCO CHIMA AND QUIZ-QUIZ, THE CAPTAINS OF ATAHUALPA.

LXV. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE ARMIES OF HUASCAR AND ATAHUALPA HUASCAR MADE PRISONER.

LXVI. WHAT CHALCO CHIMA AND QUIZ-QUIZ DID CONCERNING HUASCAR AND THOSE OF HIS SIDE IN WORDS.

LXVII. THE CRUELTIES THAT ATAHUALPA ORDERED TO BE PERPETRATED

LXVIII. NEWS OF THE SPANIARDS COMES TO ATAHUALPA.

LXIX. THE SPANIARDS COME TO CAXAMARCA AND SEIZE ATAHUALPA, WHO

LXX. IT IS NOTEWORTHY HOW THESE INCAS WERE TYRANTS AGAINST

LXXI. SUMMARY COMPUTATION OF THE PERIOD THAT THE INCAS OF PERU LASTED.

CERTIFICATE OF THE PROOFS AND VERIFICATION OF THIS HISTORY.

Title: History of the Incas

Author: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Editor: Sir Clements Markham

Language: English

Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

[Illustration: Facsimile (reduced) of the COAT OF ARMS OF KING PHILIP
II., From the Sarmiento MS., 1572, GÖttingen University Library.
Reproduced and printed for the Hakluyt Society by Donald Macbeth.
]

HISTORY OF THE INCAS

by

PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA

Translated and Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B. President of the Hakluyt Society.

Cambridge: Printed for the Hakluyt Society. MDCCCCVII. Cambridge:
Printed by John Clay, M.A. at the University Press.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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