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The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2
Cieza de León, Pedro de
Incas; Peru -- History -- To 1548
After the marriage, there was a district near the city where dwelt a
tribe called Alcaviquiza,[160] who had shown no desire to form a
friendship with those of Cuzco. They were full of suspicion, the one of
the other. It is related that, when a woman went to certain springs to
draw water, a boy came forth from the other district, and broke her
pitcher, making use of I know not what words. She went back to Cuzco
shrieking; and presently the two parties came forth with their arms,
which they had taken up on hearing the noise. The Inca, with his
followers, arrived, and they put themselves in array to fight, having
taken as the pretext so slight a cause as this quarrel between the woman
and the boy. This was the motive for subjugating that tribe, and for
making all memory of it to disappear.
The object was well understood by those of Alcaviquiza, and, as valiant
men, they resolutely came forth to the battle, which was the first that
took place in those days. They fought together for a long time, and, as
the affair had arisen so suddenly, those of Alcaviquiza had not been
able to seek for help. Though they fought well, they were defeated in
such sort that nearly all were killed, scarcely fifty of them escaping
with life. Then the king Mayta Capac took possession of the fields and
inheritances of the dead as conqueror, and divided them among the people
of Cuzco. There was great rejoicing for the victory, and sacrifices were
offered up to the oracles, which they held to be sacred.
Of this Inca the Orejones do not relate more than that Mayta Capac
reigned in Cuzco several years; and, when people were arriving to set
out for the province called Condesuyo, he became so ill that he
died,[161] leaving, as his heir, his eldest son, named Capac Yupanqui.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
_Of the fifth king who reigned at Cuzco, named Capac Yupanqui._
It seems to me that the Indians related few things of those Incas who
reigned in Cuzco soon after the foundation of that city. Certainly it
must be as they say that three or four of the Incas were those who
ordained and performed all that has already been written.
Mayta Capac being dead, his obsequies were performed in the usual way,
and, his image having been placed in the temple, he was canonized as a
saint in conformity with their blindness. Capac Yupanqui then assumed
the fringe. This was done with great feasting, and people came from all
parts to attend the solemnity of the coronation. These rejoicings having
been completed, drinking and singing being the chief part of them, the
Inca determined to go and make sacrifice on the hill of Guanacauri,
accompanied by the High Priest, the ministers of the temple, and many
Orejones and inhabitants of the city.
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