of them knew any thing positive about it; but this latter number
is the more reasonable of the two. Mr. Markham, who goes at the
problem in another way, thinks there were five historical Incas,
counting Huayna-Capac the last. He surmises that the first may
have flourished two hundred years before the conquest.
(23) Markham's Garcillasso's "Royal Commentaries," Vol. I, p. 66.
(24) Markham's translation, p. 151.
(25) Morgan's "Ancient Society," p. 100.
(26) Our authority is Christoval Molina, a priest of Cuzco. He
made a report to the bishop, which must have been written some
time between 1570 and 1584, on the "Fables and Rites of the
Incas." This was translated by Markham, and published by
Hakluyt Society in 1873. He obtained his information by
gathering together a number of aged Indians, including some
priests, who had participated in these ceremonies in the days of
the Incas.
(27) This writer, a native Indian, wrote about the same time as
Garcillasso.
(28) "Fables and Rites of the Incas," p. 105.
(29) "Peruvian Antiquities," p. 105.
(30) "Peru," p. 5.
(31) Many such quotations could be given, not only from
Garcillasso, but from Molina, Salcamayhua, and others.
(32) Address before the Historical Society of New Mexico.
(33) We can not help wondering if the Incas did not have two
chief executives. This would make them similar to the Iroquois,
and most of the more southern tribes, such as we have already
seen to be true of the Mexicans. Mr. Bandelier says there is
abundant proof that the Incas had two chiefs--one the
"dispensing Inca," the other the "speaking head."
("Archaeological Tour in Mexico," p. 167, note 6.)
(34) "Travels," Markham's Translation, p. 164.
(35) In Forbes's "Aymara Indians," p. 109.
(36) Indian architecture from the Sioux lodge to the houses of
Uxmal, Mitla, and Tiahuanuco, is only understood through Indian
social organization." (Bandelier.)
(37) "Peru," p. 214.
(38) "Two Years in Peru," Vol. I, p. 283.
(39) Markham's "Introduction," to "Report on the Discovery
of Peru."
(40) "In this case it is nonsense to talk of hundreds."
(Hutchinson.)
(41) Markham, in Journal of the Royal Geog. Society, Vol. XLI.
(42) Squier's "Peru," p. 375.
(43) The dimensions are: Length, thirteen