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VII.
CH AP.
IX.
That the City
contained
the
Defcription
of
all
the
Enz–
pire.
.T.
Hefe
four
great Streets
did
correfpond with the four Quarters of the Empire
called
Tahuantmfuyu,
ordained by
Manco Capac,
the
Tuft
Incan-King,
who
intending to reduce thofe favage, and barbarous Nations under his Sovereignty
did command them to inhabit thofe Qg_arters, which lay towards the places froni
whence they came, fo thofe who came from the
Eafr,
planted themfelves on the
Eafi: fide of the Town, thofe that came from the
W
efr, on the Weft fide
fo
that at length they all feared themfelves within the circle and compa
Cs
deftgned
for
the City in their different Ranks and Situations. The
Curacan
built
their Hou[es
as
th
y
found
roo~,
when they
firft
came
to
the Court;
for
when one had
fini–
fhed his Houfe, another built clofe by him, e
ry
one keeping the order and
ftcu..
ation of his Province; for
if
his
rovince lay to the
ight-haod of his Neigh–
bour's Pro ince, then he built to the Right ,
if
to the Left, then to the
Left;
if
the Province lay
to
the backfide of
hi
eighbour's
dwelling~
then he raifed
his
Houfe there, fronting towards his own Counrrey; fo that taking a view of all the
People and Nations inhabiting
chat
Cicy,
with their feveral
anks and Situations,
it
feemed like
a
furvey of
all
the Empire, or
a
Map comprehending
in
a
plain
Cofmographical Defcription
all
the circumference of
Pert{.
Pedro de <;iefa
writing
of
the fituation of
Co~o,
fpeaks almoft to the fame purpofe,
in
the
!;3d
Chapter
of his Book in thefe \ ords.
'' And whereas this
Cicy
contained many Nations
'' of divers Provinces, and firange Countries, fuch as the
Indians
of
Chile,
Pafto,
"
Cannares,
ChachapqyM,
Guancas,
Co/1a1,
and
many other people before mentio-.
cc
ned
j
they
'~ere
all difpofed
ithin the precin& of
rhi
City,
in
their refpecnve
" Qg_arrers, a they
ere affigned unto diem by the order of their Governours;
'' ha
Ting
liberty
ro
obferve the Manners and Cufioms of their Fathers,
and
the
" habit of their Countrey,
fo
char if
a
hundred thoufand Men of thefe were
af–
" fembled together, every one would be dill:ioguifhed by the attire of
his
Head,
cc
and his Countrey, and Lineage known to '\\
hich he
belonged. Thus
far are
the Word of
Pedro
de
Cie fa·
This DillinB:ion was made by the different attire on their Heads, either of
Feather , or Sallies wound about their Temples,
\J\
hich every
ro ince framed
to
its felf, and not by contrivance, or order of the
lncM
;
onely their King com–
manded chem
to
continue their a!hions, to a oid confufton amongfi: the Nations
which reach
from
Paf!o
to
Chile,
which, as our Authour aforefaid alledges,
was
above one thoufand three hundred Leagues.
In
which manner
all
the Streets of
this
City \'\·ere the Habitation of the ubje& onely aifembled thither from
all
ans of the Empire; and not of the
bJCtu,
or thofe of the Bloud Royal; who
li–
ved in the Suburbs of the City, the which
we
!hall lay down, and defcribe
in
fuch manner,
as
they were fimated :from North
to
outh,
with
all their Streets
a1 d
vacant
places, and
Palaces
of their Kings; and how, and in what manner
they \ ere afterwards befiowed, \ hen they came to be divided by lot amongll:
he
Spaniards.
From the
Hill
Sacfahuamam
there runs a fhallow fiream of
Warer
rom
orth to outh,
to
the farther
part
of
Pumapchupan,
where the
City
i
divi
4
ded from the Suburbs. But more .,.. ithin the
Cicy
there
is
a
treec which
lies
onh and South, which
is
now called St.
Auftin.r,
defcendjng
from
the Houfes of
the
firfl:
Inca,
Manco
Capac,
to the open fquare of
Rimac-pampu;
there are three
or
four
other
tree
ts which crofs from
Eall:
to
Vv
efi, through the large fpace
which
is
benYeen the
treec and
iver, where the
Incan
of the Bloud feared rhemfelves
according
to
their feveral
Ayllm,
or Lili1eages;
for
though they \'\ere
all
of
the
fame
amily, and lineally defcended from
Manco Capac.
Howfoever
being
bran–
chied into
fi
veral
Lines
they
derived their edigrees from
divers
Kings,
faying,
that