History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization ... 1
History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization ... 1
William Hickling Prescott
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The chain was seven hundred feet in length, and the links nearly as big round as a man's wrist I (See Zarate, Conq. del Peru, lib. 1, cap. 14. — Garcilasso, Com. Beal., Parte 1, lib. 9, cap. 1.) The latter writer had the particulars, he tells us, from his old Inca uncle, who seems to have dealt largely in the marvellous— not too largely for his audience, however, as the story has been greedily circulated by most of the Castilian writers, both of that and of the succeeding age. * ♦* Atabalipa er...a Men quisto de los Capitanes viejos de su Padre y de los Soldados, porque andubo en la guerra en su nifiei y porque 61 en vida le mostr6 tanto amor que no le dejaba comer otra cos* que lo que 61 le daba de su plato." Sarmiento, Eelacion, MS., cap. 6*. *> EEIGN OF HUAYNA CAPAC. 221 that he resolved to depart from the established usages of the realm, and divide his empire between him and his elder brother Huascar. On his death-bed, he called the great officers of the crown around him, and declared it to be his will that the ancient kingdom of Quito should pass to Atahuallpa, who might be considered as haying a natural claim on it, as the dominion of his ancestors.
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