The Last Days of the Incas (75 page)
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THE INCAS’ LAST STAND
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| 353 | “Of the gods we believe”: Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War , quoted in Andrew Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), 47. |
| 353 | Four years later: James Lockhart, Spanish Peru: 1532–1560 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), 12. |
| 355 | “[It] is true that what”: Baltasar Ramírez, Descripción del Reyno del Piru, del Sitio Temple, Provincias, Obispados, y Ciudades, de los Naturales de sus Lenguas y Trage , in Herman Trimborn, Quellen zur Kulturgeschichte des Präkolumbischen Amerika (Stuttgart: 1936), 26. |
| 355 | “They grieve because”: Hernando de Santillán, Relación , in Horacio Urteaga (ed.), Colección de Libros y Documentos Referentes a la Historia del Perú , Second Series, Vol. 9 (Lima: 1927), 73. |
| 357 | “took it upon himself”: Father Bernabé Cobo, in Roland Hamilton (trans.), History of the Inca Empire (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983), 181. |
| 359 | “The Indians of Peru were so idolatrous”: Father Bernabé Cobo, in Roland Hamilton (trans.), Inca Religion and Customs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 3. |
| 359 | “punished them”: Antonio de la Calancha, Crónica Moralizada de Antonio de la Calancha , Vol. 5 (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1978), 1804. |
| 360 | “the servant of God”: Ibid., 1806. |
| 360 | “I want to take you”: Ibid., 1817. |
| 360 | “tried to go to Vilcabamba”: Ibid. |
| 360 | “Not used to getting”: Ibid., 1818. |
| 361 | “[The friars] have not baptized”: Inca Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui, Relación de la Conquista del Perú , in Carlos Romero, Colección de Libros y Documentos Referentes a la Historia del Perú , First Series, Vol. 2 (Lima: 1916), 107. |
| 361 | “the worship, rites”: Calancha, Crónica Moralizada , 1820. |
| 362 | “a temple of the Sun”: Ibid., 1800, 1827. |
| 362 | “The Inca emperor’s captains”: Ibid., 1830. |
| 363 | “remained there all day”: Ibid., 1838. |
| 364 | “He [Ortiz] responded”: Martín de Murúa, Historia General del Perú (Madrid: DASTIN, 2001), 263. |
| 367 | “If you have faith”: Francisco de Toledo, quoted in Antonio Bautista de Salazar, Relación Sobre el Período de Gobierno de los Virreyes Don Francisco de Toledo y Don García Hurtado de Mendoza (1596), in Luis Torres de Mendoza (ed.), Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista, y Colonización de las Antiguas Posesiones Espanñolas de América y Oceanía Sacados de los Archivos del Reino y Muy Especialmente de Indias , Vol. 8 (Madrid: 1867), 267. |
| 367 | “Your Majesty will appreciate”: Francisco de Toledo, in Roberto Levillier, Los Gobernantes del Perú , Vol. 4 (Madrid: 1924), 295. |
| 369 | “General Martín”: Murúa, Historia , 285. |
| 369 | “found [Vilcabamba]”: Martín Hurtado de Arbieto, Report to Viceroy Francisco de Toledo , in Roberto Levillier (ed.), Don Francisco de Toledo: Supremo Organizador del Perú, Su Vida, Su Obra (1515–1582) , Vol. 1 (Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1935), 329. |
| 369 | “The entire town was found”: Murúa, Historia , 286. |
| 370 | “The town has, or it”: Ibid., 287. |
| 371 | “[When] war was declared”: Martín García de Oñaz y Loyola, Información de Servicios de Martín García de Oñaz y Loyola , in Victor Maurtua (ed.), Juicio de Límites Entre el Perú y Bolivia , Vol. 7 (Barcelona: 1906), 3. |
| 372 | “Tupac Amaru”: Ibid., 4. |
| 372 | “five days previously”: Ibid., 291. |
| 375 | “So many natives attended”: Antonio de Vega Loaiza, Historia del Colegio y Universidad de San Ignacio de Loyola de la Ciudad del Cuzco (1590), quoted in Rubén Vargas Ugarte, Historia del Perú Virreinato (1551–1600) (Lima: 1949), 257. |
| 375 | “The open spaces”: Baltasar de Ocampo, in Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, History of the Incas (Mineola: Dover, 1999), 226. |
| 375 | “a street mule”: Ibid., 258. |
| 375 | “The Inca was taken from”: Ibid., 226. |
| 376 | “Where are you going”: Vega Loaiza, Historia del Colegio , quoted in Ugarte, Historia del Perú Virreinato , 258. |
| 376 | “The balconies were packed”: Murúa, Historia , 298. |
| 376 | “As the multitude of Indians”: Ibid. |
| 376 | “let it fall”: Ocampo, in Sarmiento de Gamboa, History , 227. |
| 377 | “‘Lords, you are [gathered] here from’”: Bautista de Salazar, Relación , 280. |
| 377 | “The Inca then received consolation”: Ocampo, in Sarmiento de Gamboa, History , 228. |
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THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST CITY” OF THE INCAS
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| 379 | “Something hidden!”: Rudyard Kipling, “The Explorer,” in Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, Inclusive Edition (Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1920), 120. |
| 381 | “My previous studies”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002), 95. |
| 381 | “A little farther up”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922), 165. |
| 382 | “The Prefect was particularly”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 95. |
| 383 | “Magnificent precipices”: Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins of Choqquequirau,” in American Anthropologist , New Series, Vol. 12 (1910): 513. |
| 383 | “At the top of the southern”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 107. |
| 383 | “Fortunately I had with me”: Ibid., 106. |
| 383 | M. Eugene de Sartiges: Ibid., 111. |
| 384 | “The walls … [at Choqquequirau]”: Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins,” in American Anthropologist , New Series, Vol. 12 (1910), 516. |
| 384 | “Personally, I did”: Hiram Bingham, “A Search for the Last Inca Capital,” Harper’s , Vol. 125, No. 749 (October 1912): 698. |
| 385 | “down the valley by Yucay”: Baltasar de Ocampo, Account of the Province of Vilcapampa and a Narrative of the Inca Tupac Amaru (1610), in Pedro Sarmiento de Gam-boa, History of the Incas (Mineola: Dover, 1999), 220. |
| 385 | “The fortress of Pitcos”: Ibid., 216. |
| 386 | “On the slopes of Choqquequirau”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 2. |
| 388 | Visiting the University of Cuzco: Albert Giesecke, The Reminiscences of Albert A. Gieseke (1962), in The New York Times Oral History Program: Columbia University Collection , Part 2, No. 71 (New York: 1963). |
| 388 | “That there were undescribed”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 200. |
| 389 | “a talkative old fellow”: Ibid., 201. |
| 390 | “Sub-prefect drunk”: Alfred Bingham, Portrait of an Explorer (Greenwich: Triune, 2000), 4. |
| 390 | “My Dearly Beloved”: Ibid., 150. |
| 391 | “Before the completion”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 208. |
| 392 | “Here the river escapes”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 173. |
| 392 | “In the … power”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 314. |
| 392 | “We passed an ill-kept”: Hiram Bingham, Ibid., 215. |
| 393 | “dawned in a cold”: Hiram Bingham, Ibid., 315. |
| 394 | “And no one cared”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 175. |
| 395 | “Shortly after noon”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 317. |
| 395 | “Without the slightest expectation”: Ibid., 319. |
| 395 | The Sergeant was in duty: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 178. |
| 395 | Hardly had we rounded: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 319. |
| 396 | The task had been too great: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 178. |
| 396 | “another group of interesting”: Ibid., 124. |
| 396 | “We scrambled along”: Ibid., 179. |
| 397 | “Some structures of stone”: Alfred Bingham, Explorer , 13. |
| 397 | Lizarraga 1902: Ibid., 13. |
| 398 | “When I first saw”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 216. |
| 399 | “No special things”: Alfred Bingham, “Raiders of the Lost City,” American Heritage , Vol. 38, No. 5 (July–August 1987): 61. |
| 399 | “They [the Incas] guarded”: Ocampo, Account of the Province , 216. |
| 399 | “marched from Cusco down”: Ibid., 219. |
| 400 | “Our next stop was”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 235. |
| 400 | “We … forded the Vilcabamba”: Ibid., 237. |
| 401 | We hoped it might be true: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 132. |
| 401 | “indeed a residence”: Ibid., 135. |
| 401 | “the fortress of Pitcos”: Ocampo, Account of the Province , 216. |
| 402 | “Near Vitcos, in a village”: Antonio de la Calancha, Crónica Moralizada de Antonio de la Calancha , Vol. 5 (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1978), 1800, 1827. |
| 402 | Questioning his: The area was also known as Ñusta Ispanan, “the place where the Inca Princess urinates.” See Vincent Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba (Cortéz: Sixpac Manco, 2000), 142. |
| 402 | “It was late on the afternoon”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 137. |
| 403 | “I went out collecting”: Alfred Bingham, Explorer , 186. |
| 404 | “When Don Pedro”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 266. |
| 405 | “On the day following our arrival”: Hiram Bingham, Ibid., 268. |
| 405 | One of our informants: Ibid., 269. |
| 405 | Although no one at Vilcabamba: Hiram Bingham, Lost City , 149. |
| 406 | “We were conducted”: Ibid., 274. |
| 406 | “It is difficult to describe”: Ibid., 285. |
| 407 | “Half an hour’s scramble”: Ibid., 294. |
| 408 | “like a succession”: Ibid., 290. |
| 408 | “the [Inca] priests”: Ibid., 297. |
| 408 | “two long days”: Calancha, Crónica Moralizada , 1796, 1820. |
| 409 | “With one exception”: Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins of Espíritu Pampa,” American Anthropologist , Vol. 16, No. 2 (April–June 1914): 196. |
| 409 | “Perhaps an Inca”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 295. |
| 409 | “Espíritu Pampa or Vilcabamba”: Alfred Bingham, Explorer , 196. |
| 411 | “In its last state”: Hiram Bingham, Inca Land , 340. |
| 411 | “The ‘Lost City of the Incas’”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948), third photo insert, 2. |
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