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Commentaries.
" the Officer encharged w;s fev'erely puniíhed; and confequently the Army being
" thus well provided~ no perfon was permitted to break in~o the Fields or·H:oufes
'' ofche
Jndiá111,
though che 9amage.w,ere never
fo
inconfiderable, under leís than
" a capital puniíhment•... 'fhlls far
~¡;e
,the_
Words of_
Pedro
de Ciefa;
and che rea–
fon of this fevericy was grounded on !th~ íufficient maintenance-which che Souldl–
ers received, who were c_hus ,well prov~ded for
by
the People, on. condition that
chey mighc
be
fecur~d
fróip
th~ir-viol~ce ánd oUtrages.;- aµd thu~
as
the Maga–
~ines in che Roa<ils wet_e emptied b~r:-the $oulqiers
in
their Mafch,
fo
they.were
aga-in repleniíhed, and fupplied by che Provinci,d Seores,
Auguftin de·Carate
dif:.
couríing of che great RoaHs; ar che J(ing'
s..-High-Wa;vs, (as we íhall hereafrer
have occafion .to memion more·ac large)
~0th.Jnthe 14th.Chapter of hisfuft
,
Book fay:
" Thac befides tbefe common
Scor~rhou(es on che .Roads,
Guqyna";
~'
i-ava
gave. ,ommand for
building
in .all 'the rnountaino4s Countries farge ápd
." capacious
Houíes,
a~le to ~e~eive hirn, and his,O:iun; •and all his·Army,, and
" to
be
feated
at
the
diílan<=q
of
a days tnarch; one from che ocher.
la
che·plain's
" alfo he huilt others of che like capacious Form, bue th0fe were füuated more
,. remoce one from che ocher, being at eighc or ten, or ~rhápS'fifteen ·or cw~ncy
" Leagues afunder, according as the
R:iver$
ot
convenierlces of\1/acer happened
i
" arrd theíe Houfes w¡¡r,e.calkd
Tombo1,
where che
Jnditfm
laid·
up
fooh quantili~
" and ftores of Arms
t
añd other neceífaries, :for an
Army,
chat ev~ry one of
'' them was fafficient to,cloath, an'd aqne, and feed twency or thirty thoufan4
" Men, wícn the ProvHions·comairted within it felf; and yet che Army~
rh0úgh
n
ít
was ñumerous, was yec well accoutred with
all
ÍOlits of Weapons, fuch
a-s
~
Pikes, Halbercs, Clubs _and Pole-Axes, made of Silver , and ·Gopper, and
'' fome _of them of Gold, havíng íharp points; and
fome
of them hat:derted by:
•i
the
fire,
beíides Slings-, and Parts thrown by hand. Thus far are the
W
ords
of
AHgu.ltin
Car4u,
touching the Pr,ovifions lodged
in'
che R.oads for ac¡¡orriodatiori
ofthe Army.
_.
·
.
If
the
King.
were at any fime _put unto exceffive chái'ge·in
his
Wars,
fo
that
bis
Revenue could not reach the e~pence, then in that cafe ic was
lawfoll
for the
Inca,
ás
uníverfaI fieir to nis Far.her the Sun, to rnake ufe of his .J{.ithes, and Revenue;
and that whenfoever che Wars were finiíhed, the overpltis
which
remained of
fuch Provifions were caret0lly ·lai~
up
in the refpeéHve Store-houfes,
fot
füpP,,oit
and maimenance of che People in
Y
ears of Fanúne- and Scarcity; in whích fucli
tare was caken, ·chac the
Inca
himfelf judged it an Employmenc
fit
to be füpetvifed
by
his own particular regard and infpeél:ion.
· (
·
,
, the,Pri~fis,
i~
all
pam of che Empire, were m~intain~q at. che charges of the
Sun,
that
1s,. wh1líl: they were aétuálly employed
m
che ServICe of the Térnple,
for chey attended by Weeks, accórding to their
turns;
bue when they were ac
homej
and
out of waiting, they then fed and maintained themfelves from che
fruics of chofe grounds,
which
were equally divided
co
them with ocher People
i
by
wlúch, and the like Parfonony, ufed
in
exp~nding che }levenue of che Suni
lus
Seores were
always great
and
p!emifull; and füfficient
to
affifr,
and fuccour
the
lnc11
1
~
his
nec;e!Iicies and urgendes <lid r~quire.
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