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Updated: June 1, 2025
Also sometimes he used Indian words as though he had talked the tongue of these Peruvians, or rather the Chanca variety of it, so long that he had begun to forget his own language. Myself I have found his story very romantic and interesting, and I hope that some others will be of the same opinion. Let them judge.
Let him be careful lest through the might of that one, behind whom stands every Chanca that breathes, the Inca Kari Upanqui should yet lose both throne and life, and with them the ancient empire of the Sun. Thus say we all." "Thus say we all!" repeated the great company with a roar that shook the walls. In the silence that followed Quilla asked: "Have you aught to add, O Ambassadors?"
You threaten to gather all the strength of your mighty empire, and because of what I hold to be your superstitions, to destroy the Chanca people to the last babe and to level their city to the last stone. I do not believe that the God I worship will suffer this to come about, though how he will stay your vengeance I do not know.
When the shouting had died away Quilla rose from her throne and began to speak, which like many of the higher class of this people she could do well enough. "Lords and Captains of the Chanca nation," she said, "my father, the king Huaracha, being dead, leaving no lawful son, I have succeeded to his dignities, and summoned you here to take counsel with me.
There was also Doctor Chanca, a Court physician who accompanied the expedition not only in his professional capacity but also because his knowledge of botany would enable him to make, a valuable report on the vegetables and fruits of the New World; there was Antonio de Marchena, one of Columbus's oldest friends, who went as astronomer to the expedition.
"And if your tale be true and Urco is overthrown, what do you promise me in return?" "The independence of the Chanca people, who otherwise must soon be destroyed, and certain other added territories which you covet, while I am Inca." "And with this my daughter, if she still lives?" asked Huaracha looking at him. "Nay," replied Kari firmly. "As to the lady Quilla I promise nothing.
"Lord-from-the-Sea," he said, "you have played a man's or a god's part to-day. Had you bidden my daughter bide here, she would have done so for love of you and the Chanca people must have been destroyed, for as that old Inca or his spokesman told us, the breaking of my oath would have been taken as a declaration of instant war. Now we have breathing time, and in the end things may go otherwise."
Suddenly they came on some suspicious-looking mounds of earth over which new grass was growing. An examination of these showed them to be the graves of eleven of the Spaniards, the remains of the clothing being quite sufficient to identify them. Doctor Chanca, who examined them, thought that they had not been dead two months.
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