ABSTRACT
Justice was executed at the river which flows near Cuzco, on those who were taken there, or who were brought as prisoners from other parts. As Cuzco was the principal city in all Peru, where the kings resided during the greater part of their time, many of the chief people of the empire lived there also, whose knowledge and ability fitted them for royal councillors. The most trustworthy travelled much, in all parts, inspecting the roads, superintending the government of the city, seeing that no offences were overlooked, and that culprits were punished. Mutinies and conspiracies were punished more severely than other crimes. Thieves, and those who were convicted as such, were also severely punished, and their women and children were looked upon as degraded. In observing natural things these Indians were much advanced, as well the movements of the sun as of the moon.
