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Updated: May 23, 2025
Moreover, there are many plantations which have been deserted owing to the depredations of the Chincas, a tribe who live on the tributaries of the Pueros, or as it used to be called, Rio Madre de Dios. Here you will find fields of maize still growing, sugar-cane, cacao, and rice.
One after another the estates have been abandoned; at some of them the whole of the people on the farms were massacred, and in all the danger was so great that the proprietors found it impossible to work them. The one drawback to that road is that we may fall in with the Chincas, in which case they will certainly attack us.
"And did either the Incas or the Spaniards ever conquer the Chincas and cultivate these splendid plains?" "The Incas drove them back some distance, senor, and forced them to pay a tribute, but they never conquered them.
"I saw a naked Indian standing in front of that tree; he has gone now." "Are you sure, Jose?" "Quite sure. He was standing perfectly still, looking at us, but when I called to you he must have slipped round the tree. I only took my eyes off him for a moment; when I looked again he was gone." "Then we are in for trouble," Dias said gravely. "Of course it was one of the Chincas.
I may say, senor, that, great as was the treasure of the Incas, that of the Chimoos or Chincas, a powerful people who inhabited part of this country, was fully as large; and traditions say that most of the treasures hidden were not those of the Incas, but of the Chimoos, who buried them when their country was invaded by the Incas.
They were sure that Dias would not have lain down unless he felt perfectly certain that the Chincas would make no fresh move until the morning, and they chatted gaily until, at two o'clock, Dias came up. "Everything is quiet here, Dias. My brother is fast asleep, but I will wake him now that you have come up." "Do not do so, senor; he worked very hard building the walls today.
Bertie, who had joined Harry when he saw Dias approaching, had listened silently to their talk, then said: "Don't you think that, by loading the mules and moving towards the mouth of the next gorge just as it is getting dark, we might induce the Chincas to think that we are going that way, and so to follow along the top of the hills.
If they try to descend by day, we can very well defend ourselves." "The only question is, How long will it take to tire them out?" "That I cannot tell. We know so little of the Chincas that we have nothing to go upon.
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