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·Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VI.
They kne
nor how to make
ud-Wal , nor did the
SpaJtiardJ
ufe ot er than
Clay,
in
making
their un-bumt Brick .
In cafe any of chefe great Hou{(
\
hich
we have mentioned fhould by any accident
ha
e been burnt, they did not build
again upon the fame
alls; becaufe,
as
they
faid,
the
traw
hich frreng_chened
and bound the
lay, and made it
firm,
and folid, being confumed by the fire, the
all mull: nece!farily be \ ·eakned, and the
lay become loofe, and unable to
bear the
'eight of the roof and co ering
whi
h \
as
laid upon
it;
but
this \
as
ut
an erroneous conceit of the· , for
I
ha e feen and obfe ed feveral of the
W
a s of thofe Houfi , \ hich have een burnt, that have remained
firm
and
fo..
lid
a before.
·
o foon
as
the King happened to
dye~
they prefently locked the door of the
Cham er
here he did ufually fleep,
~
itn
all
the Ornaments and
Riches
of Gold
and
ilver, \ hich furnifhed it, or ' ere found therein at the time of
his
death ..
and this Chamber
'\!
as
in
thi
anner kept
ah
ay locked, that none !hould
enter~
for
that
lace being ever aften ·ard efieemed facred,
was
not to be proph:med
by
the eet f any;
nely the room \
as
ithout-fide kept and maintained
in
good
repair. The like
eremony
was
obferved
in
the Chamber of all the other Royal
Palace ,
here the
Inca
had rep fed and ilepr, though it
had
been but the fpace
of one night, a
I
e travelle , or in
a
journey where he paffed
:
And then imme–
diately they fell co building other
harnbers
for
the living ucceffour,
in
place of
thofe ,.. hich had been !hut up at the death of the late
King.
All
the
lfels and ervices of Gold
and
il
er, \ hich belonged to the
fonner
lnca,
fuch
as
up ,
J
arre , or Goble of old, in ' hich he drank,
as
alfo
all the
ifh
and Plate of his
itch
in,\
ith Cloth , and Je\' el , appertaining to his Perfon,
·ere
all
buried and interr d in the ame Grave with him; ' hich abfurdity
pro–
eeded from an pinion they had, that the
Inca
would have occafion of fuch
Ucen–
fil
and
ert
ic
in
the next
W
odd. All the other
rnaments of Majefiy
and
rate\
·hich
belonged to the Chamber, Garden , Baths, and the like, \ ere
the
Inheritance of the ucceffour, and con erred to his ufe and ervice.
All
the Wood and Water ' hich
wa
confurned
in
the
Inca'
Court at
Couo
'
·as
b·ought thither by the People of the four
iviGon, (called
Tavantinfayu)
be~
in
the Inhabitant nearefr adjacent to the
City,
that is
within
fifteen or twenty
eagues about.
The
ater \ rhich they ufed for their be erage, (, hich in their
angnage they call
Aca)
\
as a
fort
of heavy \' ater, and fomething brackifb;
and
indeed the did not much defire a
f
weet and light
ater, for they ' ere of
pi-
ion it made them lean, and would not ftick by the rib , but ealily
c
rrupted
in
the
omach ·
for
this
reafon the
Indians
not being curious in their Waters di
no
elight in fountains,
or
clear pring ; nor indeed '
as
there any good
acer
near
the
ity
f
ou:o.
hen
my
ather, after the War of
Franci.fco
Hernande~
,
fro,.
, ·
n
the
ear
1
5 ) 5.
and ---)
6.
was
Go ernour of
the C
icy they then brought
heir \
ater
from
Ticatica,
'
hi
h
\'acer
\Vas
e cellent good, ariGng a out a
quar–
er of
a
League from the Town,
to
the chief Market-place; from whence,
as
I
hear, they have now mme.d it by a Conduit pipe, to die
quare of
t.
Franciflo;
an
in<l:ead thereof they
ha
e r ught another Fountain to diat place, of
exquifite
.,. tter, running \
·ith
a
plemifull
fuearn.
HAP.