These monarchs were styled Incas, and were distinguished by a peculiar dress and ornaments, which none of their subjects dared to assume; they were adored by the Peruvians, who looked upon them as the sons and vicegerents of the divinity they worshipped. This unbounded power of the Incas was unaccompanied by any ill effects, as their attention was uniformly exerted for the good of their subjects, in extending the benefits of civilization, and knowledge of the arts introduced by their founder. It seems highly probable that such a person as Manco Capac existed, and that he introduced the measures we have related, but it is also most probable that he was accompanied by followers who carried his dictates into effect among the rude Peruvians, and therefore the supposition that these people were conquered by a superior and warlike tribe from the south, is by no means improbable, as at the present day, there exist several tribes in the southern forests, who are more civilized than the modern Peruvians, and who have successfully resisted the invasion of the Spaniards. The successor of Manco Capac, who died in the latter end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, was his son _Sinchi Roca_, or the brave, who extended his dominions sixty miles south of Cuzco. The third Inca was _Lloque Yupanqui_, who further extended the territories of Cuzco and reduced several tribes; the fourth was _Maita Capac_, who also added to the empire, and erected several splendid edifices; the fifth, _Capac Yupanqui_, was another conqueror; the sixth, _Inca Roca_, subdued many small districts; the seventh was named _Yahuar Huacac_; the eighth, _Inca Ripac_, and who had an army of 30,000 men; he conquered many provinces, and obliged the chief of Tucuman to pay him homage; the ninth was _Inca Urca_, who was deposed after he had reigned eleven days; he was succeeded by _Pachacutec_, who subdued Jauja, Tarma, and other provinces; the eleventh was _Yupanqui_, who carried his conquests to the river Maule, in Chili, and over the Mojos far to the east of the Andes; the twelfth, _Tupac Yupanqui_, conquered several districts in Quito; and the thirteenth, _Huayna Capac_, subdued the kingdom of Lican or Quito, and established himself in the capital. His history has been related in the historical description of that province. On his death-bed he divided Quito and Peru between his sons; but _Inti Cusi Hualpa_, or _Huascar_, was declared Inca; he fought a bloody battle with his brother _Atahualpa_, and was taken prisoner, on which _Atahualpa_ or _Atabalipa_, invested himself with the regal fillet, and was proclaimed fifteenth Inca of the Peruvians. On his being killed by Pizarro, _Manco Capac_ was crowned by permission of that general, but revolted from the allegiance he had vowed to Spain, and retiring to the mountains, is supposed to have died about 1553. The seventeenth and last of the Incas, was _Sayri Tupac_, who resigned his sovereignty to Philip the