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Bobk I.
Royal
Commentaries.
thatHad
the
Spaniards
introduced
no
o~her inv~n!io~
amongff
iu
t~a~
tbe
t:tfa
of
Scij{or.r
~
Lookf.ng-Glaffes and Combs, the) had
defarved
all
that
Gold
and
Silver
which our
CountrQ
protbtces.
.
.h . E ' b
d
thr
'l
h" h
The other Mark ofDiftinltion, was to have
t:
err
ars oare
oug
1,
w
ic
tke Women commonly did,
with
a iharp bramble, and
by
.f
orne art made the
hole
fo
wide,
(as we iball hereafter defcribe) that
it
is wonderfull to conceive
hqw
it
is
~ofiible
for
fo
fmall a
piec~
of
flefi:, as
the Velvec of
the
Ear, to
?e
ex'"2
tended
fo
far,
as
to receive
an Ear-nng
as big
as
the frame of
a
pulley,
for
it
was
made
in
the
forin
ofthofe with which
we
draw up
Pit~hers
from
aWell;
and
of that
~ompafs,
that in cafe
it
were
beaten !height,
it
w~uld
be a quarter
of
~
Yard
Jong, and a finger
in d;icknefs ;
and
beca_rJe the
Indums
wear
tl-iem
thus
big,
the
ifpd'11iar&.r
call
them
Orejones,
or
flap-eared Luggs.
..
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,
.
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•
For
the
Drefs of
their
Heads,
tl-ie
lnc1u
wear a Wreath
of
divers Colours, which
ihey
call
Llautu?.
and
is
the
br~dth of~
finger?
but
nor
guite fo_thick, which
they
bind
about rberr Heads four or
five
umes,
ill
form
of
a
Tulbant.
~
Thefe three
particulars of
tutting
the Hait, boaring the Ears,
and
binding the Head
with
this
!Ja11t~,
were.the
dill:inetions
which
Manco Capac
appropriated to his
family;_
for
i:hough the Subjett might
wear u1is VVreath,
or
Llautu,
about
the~
Heads, yet
it
Was
to be
df
black
orlely,
and
l)Ot
ofdivers
colours, which
appertaill~d
onely to the
~oyal
Blood. This having
be~n
the
Fafhion for fome
time,
tpe
Inca
indulgiilg
farther
favours
to his
People,
perm·
tted them alfo to cut their Hair, but
in
a dif-.
ferent
manner
to
chdfe
of his
Family, and
of one from the other;
that
fo
the
~ivers
l..iineage5 and Natioqs
might
be
di!Hnguifhed by
their
fleads.
:f\nd
that
the
Failiion ~of
che
Inca
might
not be
very different
to that
of~ Suoj~ds, ~be
or–
dered
that
their
Hair
fhould. be rounded
1
anq
dipped
clofe
qa
the
~op
of
the;ir
1
fleads,
as far
as
their
Temples~
and that
tl
eir Locks fhould hang on
eac;h fide
to
the bottom of
t~eir
Ears;
others
he ordered to clip
their
Hair
a.SJar as might
re~ch
to
the
middle
oftheir Ears,
and
others fhorter,
but:.
none
Was
to
\Vear.
it,in
fa{btQU
of
the
Inca.
And
thus
thef~
Indians
kept
thernfelves cdnfiailt to
their.
faili1on~
hot
to appear fantafiical or varying,
left they
fhould eitherfeem
td
difapprove
the
Precepts
of
tdheir
Inca,
or cohtemn
the
Cufioms of
their
own Lineage,
whi(h
they ever
ha
in great Efieem,and
Honour. ,
.
.
,
.
,
I
In
procetS
of
tl~e
the
Inca,
willing to
enl~rge
the
privileges
of
his People,
g£ve
.
them
per~!fton
co boar
their Ears, though not
fo
wide as the
Inca,
and
that the
Pendents td them
{hould
vary .
according
to
the
d~verfity
of their Lineages
and
Countries. .
To
the Natiori
callea
Mayu,
and
Cancu,
he gave leave
co
wear a.
Twill:
of
Straw, about che:thicknefs
of the
little finger.
To
the Nacion
Poques
h~
prdained
a Lock
of white
Wool
to hang
as
big
as the
top of
the
Thumb. To
the
Nations
.Muyniir,
Hnarnc.
and
Chillqui,
he
appointed
Ear-rings
of the
common
Junk
or
Reed,
which
the
Indians
call
Tut11rd
To
the Nation
Rima[fampu
he
ap--.
}lropriated an Ea.r-ring
ofa
certain foft
wooq,
which in
the
Jiles
of
Barlovento
they
fill.Magury,
and
in tne general Tongue of
Per!',
.Chuchau,
whicn, when
the Bark
JS
pill~d ~ff,
is
gentle,
and eafily
bended.
To
the People
called
Vrcos,
Tuca
1,
Tampu,
and
others
inhabiting on
the
Banks 9f the River
Tufa.J.>
he gave the pri
vi~
lege, as a
pec~.Har mar~
and
note of
his
Fa'.vpur, to wear
their Ear-rings
of
a Iar–
~er
f
JZe
.than
oc~er
Nauons,
bu~
left they fhould
exceed
herein beyond their due
P-roporttdn,
he,
gave them a
meafure.and
compafs
which
,they were
not
to
pafs;
the matter of
diem
was. to be the reed called
-Tutur4";
the[e
were
called
Ear-twills.
rather
?1ah
Pend?nt~,
becqufe
(hey did not
pang
from
the
Ear.,
but
were
twined
about
it,
as a
rdpe is about
the
mouth
of the Pitcher.
.
.
, Befides mefe difiinetions, the
inc~
appropri4ted
othei: marks
to every
Nation
tha~
fo
they
might
n~ ~confounded
one
with
the other; thofe
Names
and
Titl~
yvhich
m?ft nearly
related
to thofe which
the
King himfelf
had
affumed, being
teputed moft
honm~r~ble
and of
greatefi
repm~n
:, not that the
Ilica
was
partial
to
any
1
or
fayouted any
beyond
Reafon
or
Ju(hce; but
as fome were of a nature,
~ore doabl~
and
tra6table
than .
others;
and laboured to
infiruet
and
teach the
~:Ie
People
lll
tbe
ways of
Humantry?
to thofe he granted a higher refiimony of
~
Favours,
and
fig~al
marks of
honour
;t
all
which being confirmed
by
Revela–
tion from the
~n
his
Father,. the
poor
Indians
without
envy
or emulation
each
!~
..
~ther,
fubmmed un,.ro, havmg
already by
good
experience
tafted
the
benefit
of
u!etr
obedience
co their
Incsi.