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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VII.
CH A P.
IX.
.
that the City contained the Defcription
of ali
the
Em-
pb:e.
T
Hefe four great Streets'did ~orrefpond with the four Qu,arters of t~~Empire
called
Tahuantinfuyu,
ordamed by
Manco Capac,
the 1iríl:
lncan-King,
who
intending to reduce chofe favage, and barbarous Nations under his Sovereignty,
did command them to inhabit thofe QJ!_arters, which lay towards the places from
whence they carne,
fo
chofe who carne from the Eaíl:, planted themfelves on the
Eaíl: fide of the Town, thofe that carne from the Weft, on theWeft fide,
fo
that at length they ali feated themfelves within the circle and coropafs defigned for
the Cicy in cheir different Ranks and Sicuations. The
Curaca.
built their Houfes
as chey found room, when the}'. firíl: carne
to
che Court; for when one had
fini.
íhed his Houfe, another built clofe by him, every one keeping the order and ficu.
ation of his Province; for if his Province lay to the Right-hand of his Neigh–
bour's Province; then he b.uilr to the Right, if to the Left, then ro tbe Left;
if
the Province lay
to
the backfide of his Neighbour's dwelling, then he raifed
his
Houfe there, froming towards bis own Coumrey;
fo
that caking a viewof all che
People and N1tions inhabiring thac Cicy, wich their feveral Ranks and Situations,
it feemed like
a
furvey of all che Empire, or a Map cornprehending in a plain
Cofmographi.cal Defcription all the circumfereoce of
Per11. Pedrode Ciefa
wricing
of
che fttuation of
Co~co,
fpeaks alrnoíl: to che fame purpofe, in che
9
3d
Chapeer
of his Book in thefe words.
" And whereas this City contained many Nations
" of divers.Provinces, and füange Countries, fuch as che
lndiam
of
Chile, Pafto,
"
Cannares, Chach11poya., Guancas, Collas,
and rnany other people before menrio–
" .ned; chey were all difpofed wichin che precin& of chisCicy, in cheir refpeétive
" ()Q?rcers, as tbey were affigned unto them by the order of their Governours;
" baving liberty
to
obferve the Manners and Cuftoms of their Fathers ,
anq
the
" babit .of cheir Countrey,
fo
that if a hundred thoufand Men of thefe were
af–
" fembled·cogecher,' every one would be dillinguifhed by tpe attire of
bis
Head,
" and,
his
Countrey, and Lineage known to which he belonged. Thus
far
are
che Words of
Pedro de Ciefª·
.
This Difünétion was made by the different attire on their Heads, either of
Feathers?- or Safhes wound abouc their Temples, wbich every Province framed
to
its felt, and not by contrivance, or order of the
lncM
;
onely their Kings com–
rnanded them to continue rheir Fafhions, to avoid confufion amongíl: rhe Nacions
which reach from
Pafto
to
Chile,
which, as our Authour aforefaid alledges, was
above one thoufand three hundred Leagues.
In
which manner all che Streets of
this City were the Habitations of the Subje& onely aífembled rhicher from
all
párts of che Empire; and not of the
Inca.,
or thofe of the Bloud Royal; who
Ji–
ved in che Suburbs of the City, the which we íhall lay clown, and defcribe in
foch manner,
as
they were fituat€d from North to South, wich
ali
their Screets
and vacant,places, and Palaces of their Kings; and how, ¡md in what m:inner
they were afterward~beftowed, when they carne
to
be divided by loe amongíl:
the
Spaniards.
From the
Hill
Sacfahua.mam
there runs a íhallow ftream of Water
frómNorth
to
South, to the farther pare of
Pumapchupan,
where the City is divi–
ded from the Suburbs. Bue more within the City there is a Street which lies
North and Somh, which is now called Se.
Auftins,
defcending from the Houfes of
che firíl:
Inca, MancoCapac,
to the open fqua_re of
Rimac-p,vnpu;
there are three or
four
other Streets which crofs from Eaíl: to
Vv
eít, through the large [pace which
is
becwein the Street and River, where the
Inca.
of the Bloud feated themfelves
according to their feveral
Ay/tui,
or Lineages; for though they were ali of the
fame _Family, and li.neally defcend~d from
-!"'fancoCapac.
Howfoever being bran–
ched rnto feveral Lines, they denved thm Pedigrees from divers Kings, faying,
thac