154 / 1060
Royal
Com1nentaries.
BooK
V.
removed ; and
in
the middle of the Cham er a paffage
as left ro go from one
to
the ocher ro
empcy
and fill them
a~cording
to the feafons of the year ; for
mptying thefe
eflels, they opened a
lice~ ibutt~r
before,
~f
about a
g~arter
of
a
ard fquare, or bigger, or leffer, according ro
its
proporuo~,
by
:
·hich they
kne , certainly the quantity that\ as taken ut, aHd
hat remained ·without mea-
uring of it; whereby,. and by the large!lefS of
t~e
~ffels,
they eafily made the
ace
unc
of the quantity of the Mayz \ h1ch remained
me
ery
Barn
or Magazine.
I
remember that
I
once
[a,
fome of thefeClay-
effels,
hich remained e er
fince
che time
f
the
Incas
;
they \ ere fuch as \ ere of the belt fore, for they had be–
J
ng
d
co che
n ent of the Seleet
irgins,
v ho were Wi e to the un, and
made
fol
ly
f'
r the fe
ice of thofe
omen ; when
I
fa
them
they
w
e
in
the Houfe of the on of
Pedro de Barco,
who had
been
hool-fellows with me.
The
ro ilio
of the un, and of the
Inca,
w~re
laid up apart, and
in
different
elfels, though in the fame
tore-houfe or
agazine. The Corn for
eed was
gi
en our by che Lord
f
the
Land,
who
was
the un and the
Inca;
as alfo
the
Coro '
hich made
read
for
the Labourers, during the. time that they culri ated
and manured their Lands;
fo
that
all
the Tribute whl h the
Indj11ns
were obliged
co gi e \ as nothin.g ut their perfonal labour, their Lands and Fruits being free
of
all Tax
r
lmpofition. The
truth
of
which
is
affirmed
by
Acoffa
in
the
fifteemh
hapter of
h·
fix th Book,
in
thefe
words :
''
The
Inca
gave the third part of
(( the Lands to the People; but
i~
is
not certain whether
thi
third part was fo ex–
«
aetly meafured, as to anfwer an equality
v.
id1
th
at ofthe
Inca :
But
this
is
a
fore, that great ca was taken to render unto every
or.te.a
fufficient proportion
" of Land for his maintenance and fupport.
In this
thirdpart no particular per–
cc
((
n had fu h a
right,
as to
be
able
to
give
it
a
ay,
or fell, or by any ' ays alie-
nate
it
to anoth
r,
becaufe .the
Inca,
was
me fole Lord of the
Fee, and
the
i-
ct
ginal right
\J
as in him.
f
thefe Land , new
i
ifi
n were made every
" year> according to the iocreafe or diminution of amili
:,
fo
that
the
roporti–
"
of Lands
ere
in general afc
rtained,
and
she
i
ifion already
laid
our,
(i
that there needed no wear rrou le farther therein. Of all thefe Land
fo
given,
'' no Tribute
as
exaCled,
unl~
it "
as
their labour t cultivate
and
manure the
' Land of the
Jnca
and
th
GHac .s,
and ro gather the
ruit, and lay them up in
" their
tore-houfe, whi h \; as all the Tribure or Impofiti
required of them.
Thefe are the\ ords of
Acofta,
''ho
all
the un by the
ame of
Guacas.
In
11
the
ro ince of
olm,
whi h · above
15 0
League long,
Ma z
dorh not
grow, by re fon of the oldnefs of the Climate; but
in
the
lace
of
it
they have
gr Jt abundance of
f2.!!Jm1tt,
\
hi
ch is a fort ofRice, befides lency of ocher Grane
and
ulfe, and foch
om as grows lm upon the ground ; fuch a
is
that \\ hich
they
call
Papa,
\Vhich is round and juicy, ahd
by
reafon
f
che
gr at
humidity of
it inclines much to corruption, and
is
foon rotten;
but
the bener to conferve
it~
they
f1
read
it
on the ground
u
on
tra\: , of
hi
h th re
i
great
fiore, and
ery
ood in that
ounrrey,
.. pofing
it
for many
"i
hrs
t
the
rofl:; forthe
rofts
ar
ery {harp and lafiing th re; after it hath
in
t · manner, a
it
w
re, b en di–
efied and
ri~
ned by the cold , they
then
g ndy
re~
it,
that the \varri<hnel5 may
a way"
ith
the crud humour caufed by the
roft; and after
th
ha e thu
,,. 11
pr
!fed
it
they
lay it om in the un, kee in°
it
from the ferene damps of
che
i
hr, umill it ·
erfe
ly dried. And by
th
fe mean they conferve the
P
.ipa
for a ong time, \vhich then they call by th
e
f
Ch11num,
and by that
me all the
P"1p:1
p
d,
"hich
wa gath red
fr
m he Land
f
the un, an of
the
Inca
and \\ hich they conferved in their _ r -h ufi , ,\·irh ocher
rane, and
wirh
th ·
fi
an
r h
>
and fu h
l"ke.
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