The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru

Pedro de Cieza de León; Clements R. Markham

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511697692

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Pedro de Cierza de León (c.1520–1554) was a Spanish solider who participated in many expeditions throughout South America. Between 1548 and 1553 he travelled across Peru, interviewing local officials and Inca prisoners and collecting information about the landscape and indigenous people. Volumes 33 (Travels of Pedro de Cierza de León) and 68 of the Hakluyt series were the first English translation of his work; this, the second volume, appeared in 1883 and contains a detailed description of Inca society and the Spanish conquest of Peru.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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DEDICATION TO GENERAL CACERES
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INTRODUCTION
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Fragment of Chapter III
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CHAP. IV - Which treats of what the Indians of this kingdom say touching the state of things before the Incas ware known, and how they had fortresses in the hills, whence they came forth to make war one with another
pp 2-4
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CHAP. V - Touching what these natives say concerning the Ticiviracocha; of the opinion held by some that an Apostle passed through this land, and of the temple there is in Cachan; also what happened there
pp 5-10
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CHAP. VI - How certain men and women appeared in Pacarec Tampu, and what they relate touching their proceedings after they came forth from there
pp 11-15
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CHAP. VII - How the brothers, being in Tampu-Quiri, beheld him whom they had shut up in the cave by deceit, come forth with wings; and how he told them that he went to found the great city of Cuzco; and how they departed from Tampu-Quiru
pp 16-21
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CHAP. VIII - How Manco Capac, when he saw that his brothers had been turned into stones, went to a valley where he met some people; and how he founded and built the ancient and very rich city of Cuzco, which was the capital of the whole empire of the Incas
pp 22-23
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CHAP. IX - In which notice is given to the reader of the reason that the author, leaving the account of the succession of the kings, prefers to explain the government of the people, their laws, and customs
pp 24-25
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CHAP. X - How the lord, after he had assumed the fringe of sovereignty, was married to his sister the Coya, which is the name of the Queen, and how it was permitted that he should have many women, although among them all the Coya alone was the legitimate and principal wife
pp 26-27
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CHAP. XI - How it was the custom among the Incas that they celebrated in their songs, and by making statues of those who were valorous and extended the bounds of the empire, and performed any other deed worthy of memory; while those who were negligent or cowardly received little notice
pp 28-31
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CHAP. XII - How they had chroniclers to record their deeds, and of the Quipos, what they were, and what we see of them
pp 32-35
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CHAP. XIII - How the lords of Peru were beloved on the one hand, and feared on the other, by all their subjects; and how no one, even a great lord of very ancient lineage, could come into the presence, except with a burden, in token of great obedience
pp 36-38
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CHAP. XIV - How the riches possessed by the king were very great, and how the sons of the lord were ordered always to be in attendance at court
pp 39-41
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CHAP. XV - How they built the edifices for the lords, and the royal road along which to travel over the kingdom
pp 42-44
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CHAP. XVI - How and in what manner they made the royal hunts for the lords of Peru
pp 45-46
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CHAP. XVII - Which treats of the order maintained by the Incas, and how in many parts they made the waste places fertile, by the arrangements they made for that purpose
pp 47-50
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CHAP. XVIII - Which treats of the order they adopted in the payments of tribute by the provinces to the kings, and of the system by which the tribute was regulated
pp 51-56
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CHAP. XIX - How the kings of Cuzco ordered that every year an account should be taken of all persons who died and were born throughout their dominions; also how all men worked, and how none could be poor by reason of the storehouses
pp 57-58
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CHAP. XX - How governors were appointed to the provinces; and of the manner in which the kings visited their dominions, and how they bore, for their arms, certain waving serpents with sticks
pp 59-63
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CHAP. XXI - How the Posts of the Kingdom were arranged
pp 64-66
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CHAP. XXII - How the Mitimaes were established, and of the different kinds of them, and how they were highly esteemed by the Incas
pp 67-71
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CHAP. XXIII - Of the great preparations that were made when the lords set out from Cuzco on warlike expeditions; and how robbers were punished
pp 72-74
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CHAP. XXIV - How the Incas ordered the people to form settled towns, dividing the lands concerning which there was any dispute, and how it was ordered that all should speak the language of Cuzco
pp 75-77
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CHAP. XXV - How the Incas were free from the abominable sin, and from other evil customs which have been seen to prevail in the world among other princes
pp 78-80
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CHAP. XXVI - How the Incas employed councillors and executors of justice, and of their method of reckoning time
pp 81-82
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CHAP. XXVII - Which treats of the riches of the temple of Curicancha, and of the veneration in which the Incas held it
pp 83-86
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CHAP. XXVIII - Which treats of the other principal temples, and of their names
pp 87-90
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