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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VI.
· City of
Cozco,
and were the Generation or Children of thofe Fathers whom
the
fuft
Inca, .MAnco Capac,
fent
abroad to infuuet and reduce
the
wild Salvages
of
thofe times to a Humane manner of living ; and to horn, as a particular note
and favour of diftinltion from the more rude and uncivilized
,ations, he
be–
llowed the Honour and Title of
lncM,
ith
privilege to
ear
the
Habit and
reath belonging to the Royal Perfon.
As
we have declared at the
be&inning
of this Hillory.
The edan-men
that
were appointed to
carry
the
Inca
in
his Chair
of Gold
up–
on their
boulders, were always chofen out of two
Provinces~
which have
die
fame Name, and border one upon the other, being
both
called
RHCana
;
but
for
dill.intHon fake, one
was
called
Hat11n Rucana,
or
&c11.11a Mttjor :
the Inhabitants
thereof are a firong, nervous people, healthy and well-complexioned, and
about
fifteen thoufand Inhabitants
in
number. Thefe people had a cufiorne to
train
ap
the Young Men at about twenty years of Age to
carry
Chairs fieady, and with–
QUt
tottering or fiumbling ;
for
in
cafe any Man iliould be fo unfortunate
as to
fall,
or fiumble,
ili
carrying the
Inca,
the Chief or Cape of thefe Sedan-men
Wai
obliged to punHh
him
with fome notorious
dif
grace,
and
cafhiere
him-
from
farther
f
ervice of the
Inca;
as
is
prattifed alfo in
Spain
;
and
as
a
.certain
Hillorian reports,
the misfortune of fuch a failure
was
punifhed with Death.
This
Service
as the
Tribute which this people paid the
Inctt;
who being many
in
number, took their
· cum ,
fo that the attendance
was
the lefs grievous ; and
in
regard
it
was a
f
mgular
honour
to
carry
the
Inca's
Perfon, his\\ eight feemed no bunhen ; ofwhich fo much
care
as taken, that lefr by mifchance any of the
Chair-m~n
t'hould fiomble, or
fall,
there were n ency four or twenty five Men attending on each fide ready to
catch the feat, and prevent the
fall.
The Provifion of
iCl:uals for the Court, efpecially of Flefh, was very
grear,
becaufe that
all
thofe of the Royal amily reGding
in
the
Cicy,
were fupplied ouc
of the King's Kitchin:
Hm:
·foever, there was n great confumption of Bread
made of Mayz, becaufe no other provifion was made thereof, than what.was
fufficient for the immediate Attendant in the
amily ;
for
all Houfes arid
Fami–
li
had their feparate Allowance of Bread laid up
in
their Store-houfc ,
as
we
have before mentioned.
All ·
forts of
ame,
uch as
Deer,
cags,
Wild Goats,
and the like, \: ere not ordinarily killed for common provllion of the
urt, or
the Tables of the
Curac.u,
or Lord , but
ere refi rved
for
ports and Hunting,
'\Vhich they alled
Chacu
;
and
the
le01, and Wool, and
kins
of fuch Game
as
was
taken, ·
as
after ard dHl:ributed amongfl the Poor and Rich : of
whi
h we
fhalJ
tr
at
in
a
particular Chapter.
The
ink pent
in
the Court of the
Inca
was great ; for
in
regard that
their
courtefie
was
fuch,
as
to
make every one drink that came thither; whether
they
were
1tr11c1U,
or
ornmoner , or came upon bufinefS, or on vifits, or comple–
m n ;
there
wa
no fet or ell:ab1Hhed Allo vance for
it,
but the entertainment
\.Va
fiee" irhout
meafure
or account and the
quantity
confumed
was
almofi
in–
cre ible.
CH AP.
.