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Show PLATEAU OF OAXAMAROA. 431 l\Ianco Capac, similarly crowned, but who afterwards rebelled again. Atahuallpa left indeed a on, who e Christian name was Don Francisco (but who died very young), and a daughter, Dona Angelina, by whom Franci co Pizarro (with whom she led a wild and warlike life) had a son whom he loved fondly, grandchild of the slaughtered monarch. Besides the family of the Cacique Astorpilco, with whom I was acquainted at Caxamarca, the Carguraicos and Titu Buscamayta were pointed out at the period of my visit as belonging to the Inca dynasty; but the Buscamayta family has since become extinct. The son of the Cacique Astorpilco, a pleasing and friendly youth of seventeen, who accompanied me over the ruins of the palace of his ancestor, while living in extreme poverty, had filled his imagination with images of buried splendor and golden treasures hidden beneath the masses of rubbish upon which we trod. He related to me, that one of his more immediate forefathers had bound his wife's eyes, and then conducted her through many labyrinths cut in the rock into the subterranean garden of the Incas. There she saw, kilfully and elaborately imitated, and formed of the purest gold, artificial trees, with leaves and fruit, and birds sitting on the branches; and there too was the much sought for golden travelling chair (una de las andas) of Atahuallpa. The man commanded his wife not to touch any of these enchanted riches, because the long foretold period of the restoration of the empire had not yet arrived, and that whoever should attempt, before that time, to appropriate aught of them would die that very night. These golden dreams and fancies of the youth were founded on recollections and traditions of former days. These artificial "golden gardens" (Jardines o Huertas de oro) were often described by actual eye-witnesses, Cieza de Leon Sarmiento, Garcilasso, and other early historians of the Conquest. They were found beneath the Temple of the Sun at Cuzco, in Caxamarca, and in the pleasant Valley of Yucay, a favorite residence of the monarch's family. Where the golden Huertas were not below ground, living plants grew by the side of the artificial ones : among the latter, tall plants and ears of maize (mazorcas) are mentioned as particularly well executed. The morbid confidence with which the young Astorpilco assured me that below our feet, a little to the right of the spot on which I |