The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2Cieza de León, Pedro de
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The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2
Cieza de León, Pedro de
Incas; Peru -- History -- To 1548
[210] The Viceroy Don Andres Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete,
ordered the fortress at Huarcu (valley of Cañete on the coast) to
be repaired and garrisoned, a few years after this was written by
Cieza de Leon. It is called the fortress of Hervay, and there are
still considerable remains of it at the mouth of the Cañete river,
overlooking the Pacific.
[211] See chapter xlviii of the First Part.
[212] Worship.
[213] The reign of this Ynca Yupanqui appears to include two reigns
according to Garcilasso de la Vega. Cieza de Leon makes one generation
where Garcilasso makes two, namely Pachacutec and Ynca Yupanqui.
Pachacutec means “he who changes the world”, and Garcilasso says that
the name should have been given to Viracocha, the father, who changed
the course of events by his victory over the Chancas, but that it
was given to his son. Cieza de Leon attributes the victory over the
Chancas to this very son, whom he calls Yupanqui, and to whom the
surname Pachacutec rightly belongs. It seems likely, therefore, that
Cieza’s version of the genealogy is the more correct of the two.
Garcilasso, however, makes two long reigns where Cieza has only one.
To Pachacutec he attributes the conquest of the Huancas, Caxamarca,
and the coast valleys, and he records several of his laws and wise
sayings (ii, p. 208). To Yupanqui he assigns the expedition into the
eastern forests, and the conquest of Chile.
[214] See chapter cii of the First Part.
[215] The ruins are 18 leagues west of the present town of Huanuco,
in the province of Huamalies, 12,156 feet above the sea. They are of
great extent, covering more than half a mile in length. They show
work of the same character as the palaces at Cuzco. The work includes
a reservoir 250 feet long by 130, a bath of cut stone, and a stone
aqueduct. A doorway of cut stone, with a long rectangular room on each
side, opens to another at a distance of 240 feet, and further on there
is another doorway. Squier says,--“The perspective through this series
of portals is the finest to be found in the ancient works of Peru.”
Above the second portal are rudely-cut animal figures. There are many
other ruined buildings, and what is called the castle, 180 feet long
by 80, with a fine cut-stone wall 13 feet high. An inclined plane
leads up to the _terre-plein_, which is entered by two portals.
[216] Chapter xliv.
[217] Puerto Viejo was a seaport in 1° 2´ S. latitude. It was founded
by Francisco Pacheco on March 12th, 1535, by order of Almagro.
[218] Garcilasso de la Vega gives a fuller account of the war with
Chimu. (ii, pp. 193 to 201.)
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