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Title: History of the Incas

Author: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Editor: Sir Clements Markham

Release Date: December 29, 2006 [eBook #20218]

Language: English

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[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.

COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM, K.C.B., F.R.S., President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL, Vice-President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AMHERST OF HACKNEY, Vice-President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.

THOMAS B. BOWRING.

COLONEL GEORGE EARL CHURCH.

SIR WILLIAM MARTIN CONWAY, M.A., F.S.A.

THE REV. CANON JOHN NEALE DALTON, C.M.G., C.V.O.

GEORGE WILLIAM FORREST, C.I.E.

WILLIAM FOSTER, B.A.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE TAUBMIN GOLDIE, K.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S.

ALBERT GRAY, K.C.

EDWARD HEAWOOD, M.A.

COLONEL SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD HOLDICH, K.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., C.B., R.E.

JOHN SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.

ADMIRAL SIR ALBERT HASTINGS MARKHAM, K.C.B.

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM RICHARDS, G.C.B.

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR EDWARD HONART SEYMOUR, G.C.B., O.M.

LIEUT.-COL. SIR RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE, BART., C.L.E.

ROLAND VENABLES VERNON, B.A.

BASIL HARRINGTON SOULSBY, B.A., F.S.A., Honorary Secretary.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introduction

Dedicatory letter to King Philip II

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 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 valley of Cuzco, and of the fables which are mixed with their history

   XIV. 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

XVIII. The life of Ccapac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca

XIX. The life of Inca Rocca, the sixth Inca

    XX. The life of Titu Cusi Hualpa, vulgarly called
          Yahuar-huaccac

   XXI. What happened after the Ayarmarcas 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

XXIV. Life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca

    XXV. The provinces and towns conquered by the eighth Inca
           Viracocha

XXVI. Life of Inca Yupanqui or Pachacuti, 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 towns he took; and first of Tocay Ccapac, Sinchi of the Ayamarcas, and the destruction of the Cuyos

   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