[241] _Pepino_ is a cucurbitaceous plant, and grown in great abundance on the coast of Peru. The plant is only a foot and a half high, and creeps along the ground. The fruit is from four to five inches long, cylindrical, and somewhat pointed at both ends. The husk is of a yellowish-green colour, with long rose-coloured stripes. The edible part is solid, juicy, and well flavoured, but very indigestible. [242] _Ancha_, “very”; _hatun_, “great”; _Apu_, “Lord”; _micu_, “eat”; _campa_, “thou”. [243] _Campa_, “you” (dative); _manan_, “not”; _pucula_ must be a clerical error, it may be _pucuna_ (correctly _poccuna_), from _poccuni_, “to ripen, to become mature”; _tucuy_, “all”; _huambracuna_ is a mistake, it should be _huayna-cuna_, “boys”. Cieza de Leon translates erroneously. It should be, “You are not grown up,” “You are all boys.” [244] Garcilasso de la Vega also tells the story of this war of the Caranques and of their punishment (II, p. 447). This country is on the northern frontier of the empire of the Yncas, and of the province of Quito. Garcilasso gives a violently prejudiced account of the war, and endeavours to blacken the character of the Caranques, by way of excusing the Ynca’s cruelty. Cieza de Leon alludes to the affair in the First Part (p. 133 of my Translation). Versions of it are also given by Balboa (p. 149), Montesinos (p. 221), and Velasco in his _History of Quito_ (I, p. 18). Balboa describes the Caranque war as having continued through three bloody campaigns, and says that a number of Collas, with their chiefs, whom he names, were serving in the Ynca army. [245] 1526. [246] The names of the thirteen companions of Pizarro, as enumerated in the Capitulation for the conquest of Peru, made by Francisco Pizarro with Queen Juana on July 26th, 1529, were:-- Bartolomé Ruiz (Pilot). Cristóbal de Peralta. Pedro de Candia. Domingo de Soraluce. Nicolás de Ribera. Francisco de Cuellar. Alonzo de Molina. Pedro Alcon. Garcia de Jaren. Anton de Carrion. Alonso Briceño. Martin de Paz. Juan de la Torre. Xeres, Pizarro’s secretary, says that the number was 16. See the whole subject discussed in a note at page 8 of my translation of the narrative of Francisco Xeres (Hakluyt Society, 1872). [247] In the Third Part, still inedited. [248] Ciui Chimpu Runtu, the second legitimate wife of Huayna Ccapac. According to most authors, the name of the mother of Huascar was Rahua Ocllo. [249] He was quite right. In 1571 the Viceroy, Don Francisco de Toledo, received information that Huayna Ccapac was buried in Cuzco, where Polo de Ondegardo afterwards found his mummy, with others. (See _G. de la Vega_, I, p. 273; and II, p. 91.) [250] The author alludes to Lopez de Gomara in his chapter entitled “Linaje de Atabaliba”. Velasco, who follows Gomara, says that the name of the Queen of Quito was Scyri Paccha. [251] Before he is called Colla Tupac.