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Updated: June 22, 2025
I told him at once what had chanced and that I was sworn to return to Cuzco when I had done my business. Then the Inca's ambassadors set out their proposals for a truce, and retired, while Huaracha discussed them with his generals and Kari, who also was overjoyed to see me safe.
"I make my farewell to the lord Hurachi as you command," she answered, curtseying, and in a very quiet voice, "but know, my father, that I love this White Lord as he loves me, and that therefore, although I may be given to the Prince Urco, as a gold cup is given, never shall he drink from the cup and never will I be his wife." "You have courage, Daughter, and I like courage," said Huaracha.
"I only know you as the servant or slave of the White-Lord-from-the-Sea, though it is true I have heard stories concerning you," he added. "I am Kari, the first-born lawful son of Upanqui and by right heir to the Inca throne, no less, O Huaracha.
But since then, O Huaracha, more rumours have reached me that you still prepare for war and seek to make alliances among my subjects, tempting them to rebel against me. Therefore I am here myself to lead away the lady Quilla and to deliver her to the Prince Urco." "Why did not the Prince Urco come in person, O Inca?" "For this reason, Huaracha, from whom I desire to hide nothing.
Scarcely had the ceremony begun when Urco appeared at the head of a number of lords and princes of the Inca blood, who are of his clan, and I noticed that he was drunk and furious. He advanced to the foot of the throne, almost without obeisance, and shouted: "'Where is the lady Quilla, daughter of Huaracha, who is promised to me in marriage, Inca? Why have you hidden her away, Inca?
We camped upon the hill Carmenca and that night there came to us an embassy which spoke in the names of Upanqui and Urco, as though they reigned jointly. This embassy of great lords who all wore discs of gold in their ears asked us what was our purpose. Huaracha answered to avenge the murder of the lady Quilla, his daughter, that he heard had been poisoned by Urco.
Go back whence you came, or the countless army of the Incas will fall upon you and destroy you, you and your handful together." "That is yet to be seen," answered Huaracha, and without more words the embassy withdrew. That night also men crept into our camp secretly, who were of the party of Kari.
"King Huaracha," I went on, "I see that you are a soldier and the lord of armies, and it has come into my mind that perchance you dream of war." "The gods see far, White Lord."
These shouted that the Inca Upanqui, the Child of the Sun, the god who ruled the earth, drew near. "Let him approach!" said Huaracha briefly, and they departed.
Only then what had happened to Quilla, whose person was the price of peace? Perhaps she was hidden away during the preparations for her nuptials; at least I could think of nothing else, unless indeed she had chosen to kill herself or died naturally. Soon, however, all news ceased, for Huaracha shut his frontiers, hoping that thus Urco might not learn that he was gathering armies.
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