History of the Incas

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780486404417
• eBook ISBN: 9780486147055
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

This rare manuscript — written by a Spanish military officer and dedicated to King Philip II of Spain in 1572 — is considered one of the primary sources of information on the pre-Conquest history, traditions, and chronology of the Incas. One of the most authentic and reliable records of the period, it was based on carefully verified evidence provided by the Incas themselves.
Rich in details, this authentic study not only contains full accounts of ceremonies, festivals, and religious beliefs, it also includes detailed narratives of the origin of the Incas, ancient systems of land division, early settlements, biographical sketches of major rulers, the Incas’ law and administration, the coming of the Spanish conquistadores, the execution of Atahualpa — the last Inca emperor — and much more. Sarmiento’s fascinating history is followed by Captain Baltasar de Ocampo’s sensitively written account of events leading up to the 1571 execution of the ill-fated Tupac Amaru, a young heir of the Inca rulers, and Ocampo’s description of events in the province of Vilcapampa during the first decades of Spanish settlement.
Accompanied by a lexicon of Quechua words, a list of place names, and an extensive bibliography that includes important contemporary documents, this affordable reprint of History of the Incas will be of great interest to students of the ancient cultures of South America, and of the Incas in particular.

INDEX.

Abancay, province of Abancay, 220

Acamaqui, Sinchi of Pacaycacha, 83

Acapulco, Don Juan de Mendoza y Luna comes by sea to Callao from, 203

Accha, province of Paruro, 208

Account of the antiquities of Peru.See Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua, Juan de

Account of the province of Vilcapampa, 1610. See Ocampo, Baltasar de

Achaia, flood in, 24

Achihua, parasol, 215

Acllari, Cristoval (Cuycusa Ayllu), 1572, 46

Acllas, women servants of the Sun, 151, 170, 216

Acobamba (Acos), capital of Angaraes, 109

Acollo Tupac, of the lineage of Viracocha Inca, 160

Acos (Acobamba), town, 109

Acosta, Joseph de, Jesuit (1540–59), accompanies the Viceroy in his visitation of Peru, xiv; The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, 1604, edited by Sir Clements Markham, 1879, 29, 37, 63, 64, 66, 99

Adam, 20

Adobe, walls of, on the coast roads of Peru, 132

Africa, 14, 16, &c.; circumference of, 17, &c.

African Slaves, in the Vilcapampa factories, insurrection of the, 239

Aguilar de Campos, Palencia, Spain, Alvaro and Francisco Ruiz de Navamuel born at, xi

Ahua Panti, captain, in army of Huascar, 177; prisoner of Atahualpa, 181

Ahua-tuna, 142

Ahuayro-cancha, capital of the Ayamarcas, 75

Alayda, Huayna Ccapac at, 159

Albornoz, Don Cristóval de, Precentor of Cuzco Cathedral, 239; his metal works at Puquiura, 214, 222

Alcabisa, 40, 67

Alcabisas, mentioned by Cieza de Leon, 40; their resistance to Manco Ccapac, 58, &c; to Mayta Ccapac, 66, &c.

Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Melchior Carlos Inca died at, 225

Alcalde, Peru, xv

Alcanizes, Marquis of, 219

Alcanizes and Oropesa, Juan, Marquis of, descendant of the Incas, 219

Alcantara, Order of, 207, 208

Alca-parihuana, Sinchi of Toguaro, 108

Alcaviquiza, 40, 60

Alcaviya, 40

Alcides. See Hercules

Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, 1

Aleman, Diego, his expedition into the montaña of Paucartambo, 144

Alemanes, descendants of Tuscan, 20

Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, 15; sends out navigators, 26

Alexander VI, Pope (1492–1503), 4

Alfonso II, el Casto, King of Spain (792–842), 65

Aliaga, family of, Counts of Luringancho in Peru, xii

Aliaga, Geronimo de, son of Francisco Ruiz de Navamuel, xii

Aliaga, Juana de, wife of Francisco Ruiz de Navamuel, xii

Allcayviesas, 40, 60

Allcay-villcas, 40, 60

Almagro, Diego de (1475–1538), xvii; his expedition to Chile, xviii; his differences with Francisco Pizarro, 152.

Alusipo, seventh son of Neptune, 22

Alva, Dukes of, 6

Alvarez, Captain Anton de, in Mañaries, 234–6

Alvarez de la Carrera, Friar Gabriel, first Creole born after siege of Cuzco, 226; baptises Tupac Amaru, 1571, ib.

Alvarez de Toledo, Francisco, third Count of Oropesa, father of Francisco de Toledo, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Dedicatory letter to King Philip II
• I. Division of the history
• II. The ancient division of the land
• III. Description of the ancient Atlantic Island
• IV. First inhabitants of the world and principally of the Atlantic Island
• V. Inhabitants of the Atlantic Island
• VI. The fable of the origin of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions
• VII. Fable of the second age, and creation of the barbarous Indians according to their account
• VIII. The ancient Behetrias of these kingdoms of Peru and their provinces
• IX. The first settlers in the valley of Cuzco
• X. How the Incas began to tyrannize over the lands and inheritances
• XI. The fable of the origin of the Incas of Cuzco
• XII. The road which these companies of the Incas took to the valley of Cuzco, and of the fables which are mixed with their history
• XIII. Entry of the Incas into the valley of Cuzco, and the fables they relate concerning it
• XIV. The difference between Manco Ccapac and the Alcabisas, respecting the arable land
• XV. Commences the life of Sinchi Rocca, the second Inca
• XVI. The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca
• XVII. The life of Mayta Ccapac, the fourth Inca
• XVIII. The life of Ccapac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca
• XIX. The life of Inca Rocca, the sixth Inca
• XX. The life of Titu Cusi Hualpa, vulgarly called Yahuarhuaccac
• XXI. What happened after the Ayamarcas had stolen Titu Cusi Hualpa
• XXII. How it became known that Yahuar-huaccac was alive
• XXIII. Yahuar-huaccac Inca Yupanqui commences his reign alone, after the death of his father
• XXIV. Life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca
• XXV. The provinces and towns conquered by the eighth Inca Viracocha
• XXVI. Life of Inca Yupanqui or Pachacuti, the ninth Inca
• XXVII. Coming of the Chancas against Cuzco
• XXVIII. The second victory of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui over the Chancas
• XXIX. The Inca Yupanqui assumes the sovereignty and takes the fringe, without the consent of his father
• XXX. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco
• XXXI. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it
• XXXII. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of country near Cuzco
• XXXIII. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his elder brother named Inca Urco
• XXXIV. The nations which Pachacuti Inca subjugated and the towns he took: and first of Tocay Ccapac, Sinchi of the Ayamarcas, and the destruction of the Cuyos
• XXXV. The other nations conquered by Inca Yupanqui, either in person or through his brother Inca Rocca
• XXXVI. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the House of the Sun with great wealth
• XXXVII. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Colla-suyu
• XXXVIII. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends an army to conquer the province of Chinchay-suyu
• XXXIX. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui plants mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered
• XL. The Collas, sons of Chuchi Ccapac, rebel against Inca Yupanqui to obtain their freedom
• XLI. Amaru Tupac Inca and Apu Paucar Usnu continue the conquest of the Collao and again subdue the Collas
• XLII. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui nominates his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui as his successor
• XLIII. How Pachacuti armed his son Tupac Inca
• XLIV. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchay-suyu
• XLV. How Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui visited the provinces conquered for him by his captains
• XLVI. Tupac Inca Yupanqui sets out, a second time, by order of his father, to conquer what remained unsubdued in Chinchay-suyu
• XLVII. Death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
• XLVIII. The life of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca
• XLIX. Tupac Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Antis
• L. Tupac Inca Yupanqui goes to subdue and pacify the Collas
• LI. Tupac Inca makes the Yanaconas
• LII. Tupac Inca Yupanqui orders a second visitation of the land, and does other things
• LIII. Tupac Inca makes the fortress of Cuzco
• LIV. Death of Tupac Inca Yupanqui
• LV. The life of Huayna Ccapac, eleventh Inca
• LVI. They give the fringe of Inca to Huayna Ccapac, the eleventh Inca
• LVII. The first acts of Huayna Ccapac after he became Inca
• LVIII. Huayna Ccapac conquers Chachapoyas
• LIX. Huayna Ccapac makes a visitation of the whole empire from Quito to Chile
• LX. Huayna Ccapac makes war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambis, Huancavilcas
• LXI. The Chirihuanas come to make war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas
• LXII. What Huayna Ccapac did after the said wars
• LXIII. The life of Huascar, the last Inca, and of Atahualpa
• LXIV. Huascar Inca marches in person to fight Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz, the captains of Atahualpa
• LXV. The battle between the armies of Huascar and Atahualpa. Huascar made prisoner
• LXVI. What Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz did concerning Huascar and those of his side in words
• LXVII. The cruelties that Atahualpa ordered to be perpetrated on the prisoners and conquered of Huascar’s party
• LXVIII. News of the Spaniards comes to Atahualpa
• LXIX. The Spaniards come to Caxamarca and seize Atahualpa, who orders Huascar to be killed.Atahualpa also dies
• LXX. It is noteworthy how these Incas were tyrants against themselves, besides being so againstthe natives of the land
• LXXI. Summary computation of the period that the Incas of Peru lasted
• Certificate of the proofs and verification of this history Account of the Province of Vilcapampa and a narrative ofthe execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, by Captain Baltasar de Ocampo
• Account of the Province of Vilcapampa and a narrative of the execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, by Captain Baltasar de Ocampo
• Index of Authors, Editors
• Index of Titles
• Index