CHAP. VII.--How the brothers, being in Tampu-Quiru, 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 16 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 22 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 24 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 26 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 28 CHAP. XII.--How they had chroniclers to record their deeds, and of the QUIPOS, what they were, and what we see of them 32 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 36 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 39 CHAP. XV.--How they built the edifices for the lords, and the royal road along which to travel over the kingdom 42 CHAP. XVI.--How and in what manner they made the royal hunts for the lords of Peru 45 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 47 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 51