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Commentaries.
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CH
AP.
IV.
1
How ihey divided their
Wat~r
into feveral Rivufeis for
th~
refre/hment of their Land
;
and
what
Puni/h111ent
they
in.flitted on
the
idle
and
negligent
People
that
would not
work:
.
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37
I
N
thofe
Co~ntries
where Water was fcarce, they took care to divide their
Waters to every one according to
his
neceffities, and by
fuch
equal proporti–
ons~
and
with that order, that all quarrels and contentions for it were avoided;
~nd
hereunto they had molt efpedal regard in
dry
ye:us;
when Rain was wanting ;
for
then they allotted
o~t unto every one
his
certa:in
h0urs,
ha~ing
by
exp~rience
learned in
how
much
a.mean
Acn~
of Ground
might
be fuwlied; and
drmk
thy
Water
it
required..
·~
I
n which benefit! neither the
Ri~h
nor die more Noble, nor
the Kinfrnao of the
Cimtca, .
nor the
CJtraca
himfelf, nor the Governour, nor the
King himfelf enjoyed any privilege or preference before another, bur every one.
fook
his
tur~
, as his .Lands and Furrciws lay
in
order. He that
was
negligent
to
cake his turn,. and to watch.his ground
whilft.
the Water ran into the Furrows,
and
Dams,
was
punHhed.
for a
fluggard
in
th€
molt affrontive manner; for he
wa~
·
to receive publickly three or four
~thumps
on.
th~
Back. with a Stone, or whipped
on
the Armes and Legs.with.Switches ·of Ofter, and £barned with the difgracefull
term of
an
idle and floathfull fellow,: which was
a
grea~
dHhononr and difreputa-:
tjon to them, calling them
Mi~quitullu,
which
is
Eafie
4
bones, being
a
word com–
pounded of
Mi~qui,
which fignifies
f
weet, arid
TuUu
which
is
bones.
C·
H ..
A
P;
V.
Of
the
Tr~bute
which
they
gave to tbe
Inca,
and of the
Vef
[els
·they
made to receive their Fruits.
H
Aving
already
d~clared_
the
manner.bywhich
t~e Inc~s
divided the
Lands, and
. .
the ways and
~vent1ons
by whichthe Sub1e& improved them ; "'e
ar~
m
the next place to proceed to fhew what .'l"ribute they
gave
unto their Kings.
)'he
chiefeft part of their Tribute did confi!t
in
rheir labour,
which was
to
culti–
vate
and manure the Lands belonging
to
the
Sun,
and to the
Inca
and alfo
to
gat~er an~
reap
t~e
Fruits, and lay tnem up in the King's
Barns:'
One fort of
Frm~
which
_wa.s m
efi:~em
am_ongll: them,
was
that which they
call
Vchu,
and the
Spamards Axt,_
.and.
we
.i.n Englifh Red Pepper. Tbe places
in
which they laid their
Corn called
P;rua,
were made of Clay, tempered with
Straw:
In
the times of
the
Incas
they were very curious
in
this work and made them of difierent
fizes
and fafhions; fome being long and narrow 'and others fquare · fome of them
were made to receive thirty, .fome
fifty
j
and
f
ome an hundred
rne'afures
of
Corn :
Every one
?f
thefe Clay-veffels was put into a Chamber by it fel£ juft fitted to
· the
proporuon of
the
Veifel,
and fi-xed with Walls on each fide,
fo
as not to be
T
emoved;
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