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Roy~I Commentar~~s.
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A P.
I.
Of the Colonies
planted
by
the
Incas,
and of the two
diffe–
rent Languages in
P
ru.
T
as a cufiome amongO: the
InctU
to
tranfplant the .people from one Pro–
vince to another,
that
is, from barren Lands and Countries,
to
more
fruitfull and pleafant foils, whereby both the government was fecured
.
from rebellion, and the condition of the people advanraged
by
a
happy
~
and profitable
exchange:
In
performance
of which
defign
the
I nctU
had always a
refpeet
co the condition and quality of the people, and the
temperature of the climate ; tranfplanting thofe who had been born and bred
in
hot or cold Regibns, into Countries of the fame degree, and equal temper o
11eat and cold. Likewife
in
P.rovinces where the people multiplied greatly, and
were become
too
numerous to
be
contained
ithin the limits and compa£S of it ;
then did they fubtraCt from thence fuch a number as might ea[e the Province,
and fupply the wants of' other places. The like was praet:ifed in
Collao,
which is
· a Province of
1
l.o
Leagues
in
length, containing feveral other Nations under irs
jurifdiction: This Counrrey being
'7ery
cold, produced neither
Mayz,
which
is
Jndian
Wheat, nor
Vchu,
which is Red Pepper, and yet it abounds with Pulfe, and
all
fores
of
ldf
er Grane, fuch as that they call
P
t>tpa
and
~irHa,
which
do
nor
grow in hot Countries ; and is alfo rich
in
Flocks and Herds of Cattel. From all
thofe cold Provinces they tranfplanted great numbers of
lndian.r
to
the
Eafiward
by the Mounrains of
Anti.r,
and
to
the Wefiward along the Sea-coafr, where lyes
a vafr
Countrey, containing many
large
and
fruitfull
Vallies, which produced Mayz
and Reel Pepper in great abundance, and which before
the
.times of the
IncM,
for'
want of the Art and Knowledge of making Aqueduets and Chanels for warring
the Furrows of their Land,
lay
wholly difpeopled and deferted. The
Incan
Kings
having
well confidered the benefit of thefe improvements, did frequently rranf-
'
plant their people from the barren, to more commodious and
h4ppy
foils; and
for their refreiliment in rhofe Plantations, furnllhed them with a quantity ofWa–
ter fufficient
for
their Lands ;
making
it
a Law,
that
they fhould fuccour and help
one the other, and by bartering their commodities one for the other, what one
wanted was fupplied by the other.
By
thefe means alfo
the
IncM
fecured their
own Revenue, which was paid them in Mayz or
I11dian
Wheat, for (as we have
faid before) one third
of
their Fruits which their
Lands produced,
did belong
to
the Sun, and
another
third to the
Inc11.
K
k
Moreover