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XVIII. I ntemntionctl Conr¡q·ess oj America.nists.

of council of the Inca, clown to the guardians of bridges and to the

ohasq~tis

who

ran with messages on the Inca road from the tambo of one station to the next

tambo.

This account of manners and customs of ancient times is followed by a

description of the Spanish Conquest that is curious in its often apocryphal detail,

rather than of intrinsic historical value. Pedro de Candia, for instance, is shown

kneeling before an Inca who presents. him with a plate full of gold, asking him :

ccty co1·itacho

micu,nq~ti,

" Do you eat this gold

? "

and the Greek answers :

este o1·o

conwuws.

Pictures relating to the insurrection of Manco Inca show the Inca

sitting on Iris tlu·one, the

~~;sno,

and the miracles wrought in the time of the

Conquest by the I-Ioly Cross, by the lloly Virgin ancl by Santiago, the same

miracles which are mentionecl by tbe Inca Garcilaso in his

Comentcwios ?'ectles.

The miracle wrought by the I-Ioly Virgin at the siege of Cuzco when the followers

of the Inca came to set her chapel on fire, is also glorified by the Spanish painting,

ah·eady mentioned, which has been made known by Señor J .

Ambrosetti.

This is the first part of the work of I-Iuaman Poma. In the title chosen

for the whole it is distingnished as " The First New Chronicle." It contains

435 pages.

III.

As for the second part of the work, that of the " Good Government," I must

desist from giving a full abstract of its manifold contents. I-Iuaman Poma here

has abundant occasion to accuse the oppressors of his people of trangressions,

inhmnanities and Cl'imes, to make proposals for improvement, and last, not least,

to speak of his own personal claims and wishes. I-Iere, yet more than in the first

part, his pictures are most impressive and full of grimmest sarcasm. Considered

as a literary production especially, the 740 pages of this second part are full of

tiresome prolixities, digressions and repetitions. But taken as a whole, since the

famous pamphlet on the

Dest1·uycion ele las Inclins

of t he immortal Bishop of

Chiapas, no book like this has been written.

"Buen Gobierno " is the special heading of a series of pictures with short

notices on the Viceroys of Peru, from D. Antonio de Mendoza to Juan de Mendoza

Marquez de Montesclaros, on the Archbishop and other representatives of the

clergy, and the monastic orders. In this chapter we find the convention concluded

with Sayri Tnpac Inca, the baptism of him and his wife, and the capture and

beheading of that innocent youth, Tupac Amarn, son of Manco Inca. The Indialíls

who are witnesses of the execution of their last Inca exclaim :-

Ynca 1¿anaca1¿ri rna,ytwm rinqui sapra aucanchiclw mana huchayoctc¿ concayq1¿ita cuolwn

"Oh Inca Hnanacanri, where art thon going 7 Shall our bearded enemy cut thy

guiltless throat 7"

From the religious orders I-Iuaman Poma passes to the

CO?'?'egiclo?·es

and the

other oíúcials of the Spanish dominion. There one accusation follows the other. An

allegorical picture shows the poor ludian surrounded by his enemies, kneeling