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R.oyal
Commentaries.
BooK
VL
hey coa terfeiced the Plants and
all-
flowers o \ ell, that being on the
Wal.Js,
they eemed to be
arural :
The Creatures '-' hich were
!ha~d
on the
Walls,fuch
as Lizards,
utter· fly
, nakes and erpents, fome era\ ling up, and
fome
do 'n,
ere fo artificially done, that they feerned
atural, and wanted
no~
bur Motion. The
Inca
commonly
fc
te on a
tool of
M
ffie G
Id ,
~hich
they
ailed
Tiana,
eing about three quarters of a Yard high,
ithouc
es or Back
and the feat fomething hollow
in
the middle ;
thjs
\
as fet on a large fquare Plate
f
old, which fe
ed for a edefial to raife it. All the
fiels
w
·ch were for
the ervice of the
Inca,
both of the Kitchin, and of the Buttery, were
all
made
f
old or
ilver; and thefe
\:
ere
in
fuch quantities, that every Houfe, or Palace
belonging co the
Inca,
\.Vas
furni!hed
in
that mann r with them, that there
w~
no occafion, when he Travelled, to remove them from one place to the other.
In chefe Palaces alfo there were Magazines, or Granaries mad.e of Gold and Sil..
er, which\ ere
fie
co receive
om, or Grane, but they
ere rather places ofState
and Magnificence, than of ufe.
The
Inca
had
his
Palace
ell furoi!hed with Bedding and
fo
many changes of
A
parel, that having orn a uit
t
ice, he ga e
it
to
his
Kindred, or
hiS
Ser–
vant . Their Bed-cloaths
ere
lankets, like our
reezes made of Goars
Wool,
and fo foft and fine, that amonJdt other curiofities of that Countrey, they car–
ried over fome of the Blankets for the Beds of
Philip
the
econd
ing of
Spain:
hefe Blanket ferved them for Beds to lye on, as \i\·ell as Co ering
:
But
they
would by no mean be reconciled to
Qgilts,
or be perfuaded to fl.eep upon them ;
rha
be aufe, that having feen them
in
the
hambers of the
Spaniard.!,
they
emed too efl:eminate and
foft
for Men, ' ho made profeffion of a more hardy
life; and
ho had not created to themfelves
fo
many fuperfluou neceffities
as
Men, \ ho ranged both ea and Land for Riches and Treafure. They had no
c afion of Hanging for their Vvall, which (as we ha e faid) they Adorned
'ith Plates of Gold or Silver : The Dillies of Meat pro ided for the
Inca's
Ta–
ble
ere many,
becau
e many
lnca.r
of hi Kindred
}~
ere his frequent Guefis,
and his Servants
ere ery numerou , being all
to
be fed at the charge and care
of the
Inca.
he ufual hour of ating, for all
fo
of eople, 'a from eight,
to nine in the Morning ; in the
.. ening they fopped by
ay·
light, making no
more than thefe
t\\
o
fyf
eals. .
In
ri~l<lng
r y."' ere more
int
mperate ; for
though they did not D rmk urmg
e
_n
.
f
their
. l yet afrerward5,
'\i
hen
they fare to
it,
they drank commonlyu
1
1ght. Butt
is
w
a cufl:ome amongfr
he
i
h, and
en of Hat
, and not amongft the oor,
·hofe poverty obliged
t
em
t
a necefficy
f
in
abfiemiou
:
And the common c fiome and prac–
ngft
al in gen al was to retire betimes to rh
ir
repofe, and
to
rife early
l'nin
o
fc
How their m loyments.
AP.