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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
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Within the City of
Couo,
bordering on the fide of that Hill where the Ca!He
was built there was a fpatious Walk or Alley, containing many acres of ground
called
CoDcampata,
and
is
fiill
remaining , unlefs they have built hou[e upon
i(
fince rhe time I was there : the plat of ground on ' hich it was, took its
nam~
from the Walk
it
felf, being the beft piece of Land, and a
it
were the Jewel
and
lower ofall the E!tate belonging to the Sun, and was the firil plat of
Earth
which the
Incas
had dedicated
to
him. This Walk was like a Garden, manured
and cultivated onely by
l ncM
of the Royal Bloud, nor \ as any other admitted to
be Gardiner or Labourer there, under the degree of
Inca,
or
Palln,
'
hich was a
Lady of the Royal 'amily. All the Songs they made, were Panegyricks in praife
of the Sun; and the fubftance of them
wa~
taken from the word
Hay/Ii.,
which
in
the common language of
Peru
fignifies triumph; as
i
they were viltorious
and triumphed
o~er
the
Eart~,
whe? they ploughed
an~
igged into its bowels:
forcing it
to
fructify, and raking frmt from thence. With thefe onnets they
in–
termc ed the quick and acute entence and ayings of difcreet Lovers, and vali–
ant
Souldiers, tending to the Subjell: and Work
in
hand, concluding every fiaff
or fianza of their V erfes with the word
Htglli;,
which was the burthen of the Song'
and repeated as often as ' as nece!fary to fill up the cadence of the Tune; and
tl
us they fang, and worked back\ ard
and
forward, as they made the Furrows
·with'' hich cbearfulnefs the toil and labour was much alleviated.
'
The Plough they
u[e
was made of a piece of \Vood, of about four fingers
broad and a yard long, it was
Bat
before, and round behind, and pointed
at
the
end,
:hat
[o
it
might the more eafily pierce, and enter the Earth; then about half
a yard high, on the main fhaft they bound t o pieces of Wood for a fray to the
·oot, ·with'' hich the
Indian
preffing very hard,
0rufr
his Plough, or Shovel, up
to
the very fiep, or fray to the Foot; and therewith feven and !even, or eight and
eight ab ·eaft, according to the number of the Kindred, or Partnerlhip, drawing
all together, they turned up turf, and clods of Earth of an incredible bignefs
[o
that thofe
,~vho
have not feen this Invention before, would ' onder that
fo
weak
an Inftrurnent could be able
to
doe
fo
great and hea ya\ ork, ·and with that dif–
patch and eafe alfo, as did not put the Labourers o°:t of
~reath,
fo
a
to
f
poil
the
Air and Cadence of the Tune. The Women hkew1fe were affifl:ents to the
Men in this
v
ork, helping to turn up the turf and clod , and pluck up the
Vv
eeds
and roo , that they might dye and wither;
in
which labour they bore alfo part in
the Mufick, and jomed in the
Chon-u
of
Haylli, Hay/li.
The
lndsan
Tune having a kind of fweet
Air
with them, the Mufick-Mafier
of the Cathedral Church at
Co~co,
in
the Year
1
s
5
1.
or
1
55
2.
cornpofed an
An–
theme, and fet
it
to
one of their Tunes, which he plaid on the Organ, upon the
Fefi:ival of the mofi Holy Sacrament, at which Solemnity he introduced eight
Mongrel Boys, of mixed Bloud between
Spanijh
and
Indian,
and my School-fel–
lows, finging the Songs
hich he had fet according to the true
Air
of
JncM
Mu–
fick, and each of them carrying a Plough
in
his hand, accompanied the Proceffion,
repre[enting and imitating the
Haylli
of the
Indians;
all the Chapell in the mean
time joining in the
Chorm,
to the great fatisfaCtion of the
Spaniards,
and content–
ment of the
Jndi11ns,
ho were over-joyed to fee the
paniardJ
fo far to honour
them, as to prattife their Dances and Mufick, when they celebrated the Fefiival
f
their Lord
God,
hich they called
Pachacamac,
and
is
as much as to
fay
he
that giv Life
to
the whole Univer[e.
'
Thus I have related the manner how the
IncM
celebrated the Feaft which they
held at the time of ploughing, and fowing the Gro!illds dedicated to rhe Sun, the
' hie
I
fa\'\,
and obfetved for nvo or three followmg year, when I was a
Child,
and by them we may guefs at the form and manner of the efiival folemnized in
other arts of
Peru,
on the fame occafion, though thofe Feafis which I
faw
as
the
Indian1
"'ifured me, vvere but
faint
reprefentations of thofe
in
ancient
t~es,
and' ·ere not to be efieemed corn arable to them.
CH AP~