First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas (Paperback)

Introduction; Book I: 1. Whether there are many worlds; 2. Whether there are antipodes; 3. How the new world was discovered; 4. The derivation of the word Peru; 5. Authorities in confirmation of the name Peru; 6. What a certain author says touching this name of Peru; 7. Of other derivations of new words; 8. The description of Peru; 9. Of the idolatry of the Indians; 10. Of many other gods that they had; 11. Of the manner of their sacrifices; 12. Concerning the mode of life and government of the ancient people; 13. How they dressed in those ancient times; 14. Different modes of marriage, and divers languages; 15. The origin of the Yncas kings of Peru; 16. The founding of Cuzco, the imperial city; 17. Of the country which was brought under the rule of the Ynca Manco Ccapac; 18. Of fabulous accounts of the origin of the Yncas; 19. Protest of the author touching the history; 20. The villages which the first Ynca ordered to be founded; 21. The things which the Ynca taught to his vassals; 22. The honourable badges which the Ynca gave to his followers; 23. Of other fashions, and of the name of Ynca; 24. Names by which the Indians knew their king; 25. Of the will and death of the Ynca Manco Ccapac; 26. Of the royal names and their meanings; Book II. 1. Of the idolatry of the second age, and of its origin; 2. The Yncas sought the true God Our Lord; 3. The Yncas kept a cross in a sacred place; 4. Of many gods improperly attributed to the Indians by the Spanish historians; 5. Of many other meanings of the word Huaca; 6. What an author says concerning their gods; 7. They knew of the immortality of the soul, and of the general resurrection; 8. Of the things that they sacrificed to the sky; 9. Of the priests, rites, and ceremonies, and of the laws attributed to the first Ynca; 10. The author collates his own statements with those of the Spanish historians; 11. They divided the empire into four districts, and registered their vassals; 12. Two duties which the decurions performed; 13. Concerning certain laws that the Yncas instituted in their government; 14. The decurions gave an account of the births and deaths; 15. The Indians deny that an Ynca of the blood royal has ever committed any crime whatever; 16. The life and acts of Sinchi Roca the second king of the Ynca dynasty; 17. Lloque Yupanqui, third king, and the meaning of his name; 18. Two conquests made by the Ynca Lloque Yupanqui; 19. The conquests of Hatun-Colla, and the origin of the Collas; 20. The great province of Chucuitu is reduced; 21. The sciences which the Yncas had acquired; 22. They understood the measurement of the year, and the solstices and equinoxes; 23. They observed the eclipses of the sun, and what they did when those of the moon occurred; 24. The medicines they used, and their manner of effecting cures; 25. Of the medicinal herbs they used; 26. Of their knowledge touching geometry, arithmetic, and music; 27. The poetry of the Yncas Amautas, who are philosophers, and haravicus or poets; 28. Of the few instruments which the Indians used for various purposes; Book III: 1. Mayta Ccapac, the fourth Ynca, annexes Tiahuanaca; 2. Hatunpacasa is reduced, and they conquer Cac-Yaviri; 3. The Indians who surrendered are pardoned; 4. They reduce three provinces and conquer others; 5. The Ynca acquires three new provinces; 6. Those of Huaychu submit, and are mercifully pardoned; 7. They reduce many towns; 8. Many nations are reduced to submission by the fame of the bridge; 9. The Ynca acquires many other great provinces, and dies in peace; 10. Ccapac Yupanqui, the fifth king, gains many provinces in Cunti-Suyu; 11. The conquest of the Aymaras; 12. The Ynca sends an army to conquer the Quechuas; 13. They conquer many valleys on the sea coast; 14. Two great curacas refer their differences to the Ynca, and become his subjects; 15. They make a bridge over the Desaguadero; 16.