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Royal Commentaries.

tired and fainted

its

o.urney, attributing all the feelings and paffions of the Men

to the inanimate and fenfelefs Scone. This, and many

fucs

Fables, the

Indiaw

conferve amongfi them, believing that fuch paffages as

th~fe

are

befr

reco!llmen–

~ed

Pofierity, and conferved under fuch

~on~erfull

and unprobable fictions.

The

Spaniards,

who

reafon ought to mamtam, and

their

m~n

coil: to have

kept

this

Fonref in repair, for

the

greater

advance~ent

?f their_ own honour,

that fo they might give occafion

the Wodd t<? admire theu

Atchi~vements

and

great! Prowefs, in being able

(u~due

pe?ple

potent, and which we:e able

to erect fuch wonderfull and prnd1g1ous Fabncks; but on the contrary, as 1f

they

had b

een envious of the great

of thofe they had fubdued, they have laid their

m.Yn

hands to the pulling down of this prodigious piece of Art and nduihy; and ·

with

the Materials thereof have built ' the private Houfes of fome particular per–

fons

Couo;

for

avoid the

coft,

and time, and labour of the

Indians

in bring–

ing cones and Materials from difiant parts, they have brought from the Walls of

the Rampire, all-the poliilied and wrought Stones; that there is fcarce Houfe

all the Town, at leaft fuch as belongs co the

SpaniardJ,

but

what

is built out of

the ruines of chat Fortrefs.

The great Stones which were the fupporter5 of the lower Buildings, were dig–

ged up, and brought a·way for Threfholds and Jambs

their Doors; the lefler

Stones ferved

for

the Walls; and for Seeps to their Stairs, they chofe fiones of fuch

flZe as was convenient, which when they had found, and pitched upon, they

call:

down all the rows of Stones above them,

ten or twelve degrees above them,

umill they came to rhofe which fitted their occafions.

this manner they whol–

ly overturned and defiroyed the Majefi:y of that noble and frarely building,

un·

worthy of fuch a Fate, and which

will

ever remain an objett of great compaffion

to all Beholders, the

Spaniards

were fo expedite in the defiruction ofit, that in my

rime there remained onely fome few ruines

which

we have formerly mentioned.

The three

great

Rampires of Rock are

!l:ill

remaining, becaufe the Srones are

vaft and weighty, as cann9t

removed ; howfoever they have difordered

fome

of them, in hopes of finding that Chain or Cable ofGold, which

Hu19na Capac

made,

for

they had fome intimation that it was buried there.

'the good King

Inca Tupanqui,

who

was

the tenth of the

IncaJ,

was the

fuft

F?under of this abufed and injured Fortre!S, though ochers will have it

begun

his P-ather

achacutec,

becau[e

had left the

firfr

draught and model of it, and

had

made Provifions of great quantities of Stone and Rocks

for the

Building be–

fides

which there wer<!! no other Materials.

The

whole Work was-fifty

Year~

be–

fore it

~as

completed, not being fuilihed untill the Reign of

Huqyna Capac,

nor

then·neither as the

Indians

report, for that the great Rock which refi:ed

the

way

was defigned for

additional Buildings to it; but to this and many other Buil–

dings

divers parts of the Empire,

fro

and

difaµpointment was given by the

Civil Wars

whlch

arofe not long

after

between

the

two Brothers,

Huafcar bJca

and

Atahualpa,

whofe time the

Spaniards

made their Invafion and then

thof~

DefiruCtio~

and

Ruines followed, which are apparent

this

Day.

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