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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VII.
which
I
cannot
call
to
mind, where
live~
Alonfa
de
Loayfa,
_rMartin
de
Menefiu, [olm
de
Figueroa, D. Pedro
Puerto
Carrero, Garcta
de
Melo, Francifao
'!Jelgada,
betides
ma–
ny
other Lords and Perfons of Quality, whofe Names
I
do
not remember.
Be..
yond
this
place,
to
the Southwaro, is the quare of
Tntipampa,.
or
the
Square
of
the Sun, becaufe
it
lies jull:
before the Temple, where thofe
who
were
not
of
the degree of,an
lnca,
came
to
offer their Sacrifices, being not
lawfull
for
perfons
of
lelS
quality
to
enter within the Walls of
the
Temple:, there the Priefis met
and received them, and prefented them before the Image
of
the Sun,
whom they
adored
for God. That
quarter' herein the Temple of the Sun was ficuaced,
was
called
Coricancha,
or the treet of Gold , Silver and precious Stones , of
which
there was great abundance, (as we have before declared) \ ithin the Temple.
What now remains to [peak of,
is
the uburbs of the City, called
Pu-mapchspan.
C H A P. X.
Of
the
Situation
of the
Schools, of
the three
Royal
Palaces,·
with
the
Houfe of
the
Selefl
Virgins.
N
ow
to
finilh
our DHcourfe of the everal treets of the
City,
we mull: re.
turn again to
H11acapunc11,
or
the Gate of the Sanetuary, which lies
Nonh
from the great Market-place; from whence like ife
iffues
another treer,
the
name of
hich I
cannot tell,
but
may properly call it the School , becaufe
iliac
the King
Inca
Roca
founded certain Schools in that place,
as
we have already men–
tioned in his Life : In the
Indian
Language they are called
Yaca
Hu1tei,
or rhe
Houfe ofLearning, where their Scholars, or learned Men,
calledAma11tas,
or Phi.
lofophers, and
Haravec,
which are Poets, had their place of abode, being very
much efieemed, and
had
in honour by the People> becaufe they were Inll:ruCl:oui-s
and
Teachers of youth, and Turours to thofe of the Royal Bloud. ProceediQg
from chefe Schools to the Southward, there are
t~
o other treets which lead
to
the
great Marker-place, where are two Royal Palaces, of
fo
great a compafs,
that they took up all the·one fide of the Square. One of thefe places which
lies
to the Eafiward of the other, "as called
Coracora;
which is as much as a large
Court; the which
is
confirmed by
Pedro de
Ciefa,
ho in the 92d Chapter of
his
, Book,
faith,
That the King
Roca
ordered hi
Pala e
to
be
built there,
for ch,.
better convenien e of the Schools,
w
hereco he often reforted, to hear the LeCi:urns
of the Philofophers.
I
have not obferved any thing to remain of the
Coracor4,
~c
b~ing
all ruined and demolHhed in my time; though when the
City
w~
firft
di-
ided into !hares amongCl: the Conquerours of it, the
Coracora
was the Lot of
Gon–
V'lo
Pip irro,
Brother of the Marquefs
Francifco
Pif arro,
\
ith
w
horn
I
was
well
ac~
quainted at
Couo,
afrer the Bartel of
Huarina
,
and before that of
Sacfahnana,
he
\ as very kind and obliging to me; for being but a hild of eight or nine years
of age, he treated me as
if
I
had been his Son. The other Palace
to
the
Eafrwa.rdof
Coracora.,
was call
d
Caf{an~,
or a thing of admiration ; as
if
it had been
fu
h_
a fiupendi us
~
ork, that very ne upon the fight of it muft
be
tranfported
~
ith
wonder and aftonHhment;
it
had been the Habitation ofthe
Inca
Pachacutec,
great
Grandfon to the
Inc""
Roca,
who in favour, and for ornament to the Schools, or–
dered hi Palaces
to
be adjoining thereunto; for the hools " ere on the back–
fide of tho e alaces, and were contiguous, or joining one to the ocher, without
any other fpace or divifion between them. The rincipal Gates and Front of chu
choois opened to the Street and River; but the
Jncao
paffed thither
by
the back
way,
being delighted to hear the Philofophical Leel:ure ; and fometimes the
J11c11
P
11chac11te~
would
be
Reader himfelf, and with the ame occafion,
declare
and puQ..
lHh
I
.