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VII.

R.oyai

ommentaries.

tired and fainted in its Journey, attribucing al! che feelings and paílions of rhe Men

che inanimace and fenfelefs Srone. This, and many fuch Fables, the

Indiam

conferve amongíl: chem,.believing thac fuch paífages as thefe are befl: recommen–

ded to Poíl:erity

and conferved under fuch wonderfull and improbable fiétions.

The

paniards,

who in reafon ought to rnaintaín, and at their own coíl: to have

kept this

Forcre.fs

in repair, for the greacer advancement of their own honour,

that fo t

hey migh

t give _occafton to che World to admire their Acchievements and

greac Prowefs, in being' able to fub.due a people fo potent, and which were able

to ereél: fuch wonderfull and procliglous Fabricks; bue on che contrary, as if chey

had been envious of che great Aéts ofchofe chey had fubdued, they have laid cheir

own hands to che pulling clown of chis prodigious piece of Are and Induíl:ry; and

with che Macerfals chereof have built che privare Houfes of fome particular per–

fons in

Co«o;

for to avoid.che coít, and time, and labour ofche

Indians

in bring–

ing Stones and Macerials :from diíl:ant pares, they have brought from the Walis of

che Rampire, al! the poliíhed and wrought Srones; that there is fcarce aHoufe

al! the Town, at leaíl: fuch as belongs to the

Spaniards;

bue whac is built out of

che ruines of that Fortrefs.

The·great Stones which were che fupporters of che lower Bu.ildings, were dig–

ged up, and bronghc away for Thr~íholds and Jambs of their Doors; che leílér

Stones ferved for rf1e Walls; and for Steps to their Stairs, they chofe íl:ones offuch

ftze as was convenienr, -which when chey had found, and picched upon, they caíl:

down ali che rows of Stones above them,

ten or twelve degrees above chem,

untill they carne

tliofe which fitced their occaíions.

this manner they whol–

ly overturned and deíl:royed the Majeíl:y of that noble and íl:ately buildiQg, un–

worthy of fuch a Fate, and which will ever retJ1ain an objeét ofgreat compaílion

to al! Beholders, che

Spaniards

were fo expedite in the deíl:rufüon ofit, chat

time chere remained onely fome few ruines which we have formerly mentioned.

The three greac Rampires of Rock are fiill remaining, becaufe che Stones are

valt and weighry, ·as cannot be removed ; howfoever chey have difordered fome

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

Huqyna Capac

made, for chey had fome intirnacion thac ic was buried there.

The

good King

Inca Tupanqui,

who ~as -che tenth of che

lncM,

was che

firíl:

Founder of chis abufed and injured Fortrefs, though ochers will have ic begun by

his Facher

Pachacutec,

be~aufe he had left che

firfr

drau_ght and model ofit, and

had rnade Proviíions of great quanricies of Stone and Rocks for che Building,

be–

íides which there were no other Materials. Tlie whole Work was fifty Years

be–

fore ir was completed, not being finiíhed untill che Reign of

Huayna Capac,

nor

then neither, as the

Indians

repare, for thac the greac Rock which reíl:ed in the .

way was deíigned for additional Baildings to i~;

~ut

to chis and many other Buil–

dings in divers pares of the Empire, a fiop andaifappoincmenc was given by the

Civil Wars which·arofe noc long after between the two Brothers,

Huafcar Inca,

and

Atahualpa,

in whofe time the

spaniards

made cheir Invafion, and then thofe

Defüuél:ions and Ruines followed, which are apparenc_~

this Day.

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