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VII.
Royal
Commentaries.
There was another
Feafr,
not ·
publickly celebrated, but
kept
~n
every.private
family ; and that began. about che time after
t~ey
had
en~ed
their Harveit, and
lodged their
Fruits
in
their Score-houfes, called
Pirva.
Their cufrorne was to bur_n
a fmall quantity of
Tallow,
or
Fat>
near the places
~here
they
had
lodged
th ir
Stores as a facrifice to the
Sun :
the Nobles, and
nc~
people, offere
~ame
<;o–
nies
~hich
they
call
Coii
giving
thanks
for the prov1fions of bread.with
which
they
were fupplied for the fuftenance of the whole year,
an~
praymg? that he
would be p'eafed
to
befi:ow chis bleffing
on
chofe
confervatones of
their bread
~
that they mlght
keep
them
well
and fafe for the fupport
and
maintenance of
hu-
~heli[:·
were other Feafis which the
Prl~fis
celebrated within_ the Ternple of the
Sun.
without
any
publick proceffions, ·bemg the monthly facnfices offer d co the
Sun\
but chefe
were
not to be
compared
with
th~
folemnicy of the
oche~
four
principal Feafis,
which
were like
our Grand Fefhvals of
Eajler
and
Chriftmas.,
and che like.
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CH AP.
VI I I. -
The
Defcription.
of the
bnperial
Cit;
of
Cozco.
T .
HE
Inca, .k(anco Capac,
was Founder of
this
City
of
Co:ao,
which the
Spa..
niards
have honoured with
the
continuance of its Name and
Title,
calling
it
the great City
-of
Co:tco,
and Metropolis of all the Kingdoms and Provinces of
Peru,.
And
though they
once
called
it the New
TPkdo,
yet
the
impropriety
of
it
fucm caufed
that Name
to
be difufed.
For .
Couo
is
not encornpaffed
by
a
River~
as
is
Toledo,
nor
like
it
in the fituation ; the Houfes
being placed one above the
other, -on
the
fide
of
a Hill
fo
hlgb,
that it
furveys
from all parts a
large
and fpa–
tious
Plain
beneath
it:
the
Streets
are very long
and wide, and
the publick
Mar–
ket-places
\1ery
great~
fo
that
the
Spaniards
in
general,
as
alfo
the publick Nota–
ries,
and
other
Writers
fty
le
it
by
no other Name than by its
ancient
Title ; for
Co:uo
being
like another
Rome,
the Imperial Head
of
many
Kingdoms and Prov
in...
c~,
may eqnally
deferve
a
title agreeable
to its noble and generous
Atchievements,
and
likewife
in
fome
things be compared
with
Rome.
As
firfi,
in
that
it was
ori–
g4ially
founded by its
Kings.
Secondly, in
that
it
was the Head and
Chief
City
of many
Nations,
fubje6ted
to
its
Empire.
Thirdly,
in
the
Excellencies
of
its
Laws, which were
many,
and wife,
and
rarely
tempered
for the government of
its
people. Fourthly,
in
the qualities of the Men who were educated
in
Civil
and Military
Di{Qpline,
and
were
civilized
and freed from all
barbarity
in
their
mat:m€rs.
Howfoever
we
may fay, that
Rome
had
this
advantage of
Co~co,
that
the
knowledge of
Letters had etemized the fame and
honour of
Rome,
and
that
its
people vvere
not more celebrated for the
fuccefS
of
their Arms ,
than
they were
~l~fuious
and
renowned
for their
Arts
and Sciences;
when
Poor
Couo
hath had no–
thmg
~t
Memory
and Tradition to
deliver
its great
Aetions,
and
feats
of
Arrnii
to
poftenty.
But
Rome
had
the
help
of
Hifl:orians to record
its
famous
Deeds,
and
was as much beholding
to
'the
Pen ,
as
to
its Arms ;
it
being
doubtfoll
w
hethe
gr~at Heroe~ ~re
more obliged
to
Writers,
who
have
tranfrnitted
the fame of
their
mighty Ailio0s
to
all
pofterity
?
or
Writers are to
the
oble
Heroes,
for
opening
11at0
.them
fo
large a field of great and various Atchievements.
But
this was
not
!he fortune
o~
our poor Countrey, which
though abounding
with Men famous
m
Ar~s,
amd
m
lntelleetuals,
and
capable
of
Sciences ;
.did yet for want
of know–
~~e
m Letters,
1eave no
other
Monuments
of
their
pail: a&ions,
but
whst
Tra–
tiinfun_
ifilatfil
c©nferved
and
tranfmitted
in
Corne few
abrupt
and fcattered
fentences
ti-om Fathers o their Children? which alfo are
in
a great meafure
loft
by the en-
trance
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