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Show 448 PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA. sion of an " animal" fastened to a cord; but indeed, even in Spanish "res" is by no means limited to oxen, but may be applied to any tame cattle. We cannot examine here how far the Padre may have mingled parts of his own sermons with the heresies of the Inca, with the view of weaning the natives from the official and dynastic worship of the Sun, the religion of the court. We see, in the very conservative state policy, and in the maxims of state and proceedings of the Inca Roca, the conqueror of the province of Charcas, the solicitude which was felt to guard strictly the lower classes of the people from such doubts. This Inca founded schools for the upper classes only, and forbade, under heavy penalties, to teach the common people anything, "lest they should become presumptuous, and should create disturbances in the State !" (No es lecito que ensefien a los hijos de los Plebeios las Ciencias, porque la gente baja no se eleve y ensobervezca y menoscabe la Republica; Garcilasso, p. i. p. 276.) Thus the policy of the Inca's theocracy was almost the same as that of the Slave States in the United Free States of North America. ( 1') p. 433.-" Tl~e restoration of an empire of the Incas." I have treated this subject more fully in another place (Relation hist. t. iii. pp. 703-705 and 713). Raleigh thought there was in Peru an old prophecy, "that from Inglaterra those Ingas should be againe in time to come restored and deliuered from the seruitude of the said conquerors. I am resolued that if there were but a smal army afoote in Guiana marching towards Manoa, the chiefe citie of Inga, he would yield Her Majestie by composition so many hundred thousand pounds yearely as should both defend all enemies abroad and defray all expences at home, and that he woulde besides pay a garrison of 3000 or 4000 soldiers very royally to defend him against other nations. The Inca wil be brought to tribute with great gladnes.'' (Raleigh, " The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana, performed in 1595," according to the edition published by Sir Robert Schomburgk, 1848, pp. 119 and 137.) This scheme of a Restoration promised much that might be very agreeable to both sides, but unfortunately the dynasty who were to be restored, and who were to pay the money, were wanting ! |