ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that which appertains to the Indians called mitimaes, for many things are related concerning them in Peru and they were honoured and privileged by the Incas while in the History which they entitle Of the Indies that they were slaves of Huayna Capac. Mitimaes is the name of those who are transported from one land to another. The first kind of mitimaes, as instituted by the Incas, were those who were moved to other countries, after a new province had been conquered. The mitimaes were employed to take charge of the flocks of the Inca and of the Sun, others to make cloth, others as workers in silver, and others as quarrymen and labourers. The second class of mitimaes were those who formed garrisons under captains, some of whom were Orejones, on the frontiers, in forests east of the Andes.
