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RC!)'al Commentaries.
" the officer encharged was feverely punHhed ; and !=Onfequently the Army being
'' thus well provided, no perfon was permitted to break into the Fields or Houfes
' of the
Indians,
though cJle
damage
were never
Co
in~onfiderable,
under lefs than
" a capital punHhmenr. Thus far
at~
the
~
ords
o~
Pedro de Cief
~
;
and the
re~fon of this fever
icy
was
grounded on the
fufficienc
mamtenance
w
h1ch the Sould1-
ers received, who \Vere thus \vell provided for by the People, on condition that
they mighc be fecured from their vlolem:e and outrages; and
thus
as the Maga–
zine
in
the
Roads were emptied by
the
S<:>uldiers
in
their March,
fo
they
were
again
replenifhed,
and fopplied by the Provincial
Scores.
A.14g1Jjlin
de Carate
dif–
courfing of the great Roads, or the King
7
s High-Ways, (as we fhall hereafter
have occafion to mention more at large) doth in the 14th. Cha2ter of his
fuft
Book fay:
'' That befides thefe common Score-houfes on the Roads,
Guayna...
c'
cava
gave command
for
building
ifi
all
the mountainous CoQnrnes large
and
~<
capacious Houf
es,
able to receive
him> and his Courn,
and all
his
Artny,
and
(c
to
be
feated at the dHbnce of
a
days march, one from the ocher. In the plains
cc
alfo
he
built others of
the
like capaciotts Form, but thofe were firuated more
'' remote one from the
ocher,,
being
at
eight
or
ten,
or
perhaps fifteen or cwenry
i;c
Leagues afunder, according as the Rivers or <;onveni<mces of \i\Tarer
happened~
cc
and the!e Houfes were called
Tombo1,
where the
Indians
laid up fuch quantities
" and {lores
of Arms,
and ocher necelfaries,
for an Army, that
every one
of
" them wa
fufficient to
th,
and arme, and feed twenty or thirty thoufand
" Meo, '
ith the .Provifions contained
within
it
felf; and
yet
the Army,
though
«
it
was numerous,
w41s
yet well accoutred with all fores of Weapons, fuch
as
'' Pikes, Halberts,
Qubs
aad
Pole-Axes, made of
Silver,
and Copper,
and
~'
fome of them of Gold> having
fl1arp
µoinrs, and fome of
chem
hardened
by
'~
the
fire,
belides
lings; and Dare rhr.own by hand. Thus far are the Words
of
ANgitftin C4r11te,
touchjng rhe Provifions lodged
in
the Roads
for
accomodatiorr
of the Army.
·
If
the King were
at
any
time put unto exceffive charge in
his
Wars,
fo
chat
his
Revenue could not reach
the
expence, then
in
that cafe
it
was lawfull for the
Inca,
as univerfal Heir
to
his Etther the
:
un,
to
make ufe of his Riches, and Revenue
7
and rhat whenfoever
the Wars
were tinilhed, the overplus which remained
of
fuch P vifions •were carefully laid up in the refpettive Score-houfes, for fupport
and maintenance of the
Peo~
le
in
Years of Famine and
carciry · in
hi h
fu
h
care was taken, that the
Inca
himfelf judged it an Employment fit to be fupervifi
d
· by his O\\'n panicular
regard
Jnd infpeCl:ion.
The Priefl: , in all
parts
of the Empire; "'·ere
maintained
at
the charges of
the
Sun, that
is,
whil!l:
they
w
re aet:ually employed in the
er
ice of the Temple
for
they
attended by
Weeks,
according
t
their turns;
but when they
~ere a~
home, and out of wai{ing,
they
then
fc
d and maintained
rhemfc
lv
from rhe
fruits
~f
thole groun9s, '
hich
were
equally
divided ro them
with
ocher People;
by
which) and the like Parfim
ny,
ufed in expending
the
Revenue of the on.,
lus
Stor~_were
alw_ay great
and
J
!en~ifull,
aqd
fufficient
t0
affifr,
and
fuccour
ch
Inca,,
as
hi
bee: ilines
and
urgencies
d1d require..
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