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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
III.
CH AP. XXIII.
Of
the Places where they offered Sacrifice,
and where
they
put
off
their
Shoes before they
entred into the Temple )
as alfo
of the
ountains
which belonged to
it.
T
H E
pla~es
where they
burned
their acrifices
ere
appointed according
to
the folemnities of them ; for fome
ere offered in one open fquare and
fome in oth r ; for there
ere many hallowed
laces belonging co the
Te~ple
in \ hich the
IncM
ordered the celebradon of the acrifices, according as their
plea~
fure and devotion directed. That general acrifice \
bkh
as
made
at
the great
Fefiival of the un, called
Raymi,
as
ffered in the open Market-place of
the
icy ;
other eafi of leffer note
w
r-e celebrated in an open Court before the
T m
le,
here all the Peo
le
and
ations of diver
rovinces,
belonging
to
the
ominion of the
~m
ire, affembled together to
kee
the Holy-day
with
Dances
and
ong ., and other Recreations; Ut hey could
n
pafs
beyond
that place
into the body of the Tern le, nor remain there
icb hoes on their Feet, becaufe
the gr und
as
hallo ed, b
ing
within the onfine ,
an
faodified
limits
of
th~
Tern le; the which
e
obfi
rv here,
£E>
denote
ho
f~
thofi
b®ndaries ex–
tended.
her were three princi al
~r
e ,
wliiich
ran
orthward
from tbe Market.
lace
t
the T mple; one of
bi h pafied
by the
brook
fide,
and another,
hich
- my time they ailed the
r·
on-fireet, be aufi the
Spaniardr
made
their
Prifon
in ic,
(which,
a
I
am informed , ·
fince chang d?}
a
third
led
from
a
corner
of
th Market- lace to the
Tern
le.
h re
.i
ano her Street to the Eaftward
of
thefe three ,
lV
ich
leads
alfo
to th
fam
lace,
and
which is now called the
Ste
t
of
t.
Aujiw;
through
all
which
ur ·
eet
there
was
a
way
tot
e
Tern..
le;
ut
the princi
al
treet, andmoft direct way thinher,
wa
that which
we call
the
treet of the
rifon, though the
India;,s
call
<l •
t
the
creet
of
rl'i€
un,
be–
caufe that
that being
in
the roiddl , and
in
the
fireig
fr
line
of
all
the
re.ft,was
the common paffage by
1
hich
they ~
enr,
and carried
aU
tbeir
ffi
rings
and Sa·
crifices
to the
Temple. There
w
alfi
a ·ch r creet
whi
h ran Eaft and Weft
and croifed the other four mentioned
tree
which
a the
place
determined
for them,
~here
to leave their hoes ; and though they intended not to go
fo
far a
the Temple, yet that ground being within the
rge of it, no perfon
could
afs
it,
unle~
defcalced, ana with bare feet
aid
his
r
verence to the hallowed
mth , from which
la e
are
abo e two hundred
aces
to
the
ate of
the
Temple.
But to return now to the
rnamen
of die Tempfe; tnere were five
oun–
tains ofWater,
hich ran from diver
lac
thropgh Pi e
f
old; the
Ci–
fierns were
f<
me of tone, and oth r of
old and
ilver, in
which
they walhed
their acrifices, as the olernnity of the
..efii al ap ointed.
In
my time, there
·a
but one
f
rhofe ouncains remaining, which ferved the Garden of a Con–
ent
ith Water; the ochers were lofl:, either for \ ant
f drawing, or opening,
or lean{ing; and chis is
ery
robable, be
a
fe t
my
knowledge, chat which
long&:i
t
the
nv nt
as alfo
10fi
fbr
fix
r
fi
v
n month , for want
of
hicn Water,
th
whole
arden
wa
dry du , and \Vithered,
ro
the great
fa.
mentation of the
onvent, and
t
whole
icy, nor ould any
J,,dian
underfiand
how that Water came to
fail,
or to\
1
at
lac
it
t
ok
't
courfe.
At