ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how Huayna Capac ordered that an army should be assembled, and how he set out for Quito. Huayna Capac enjoyed a rest of some months at Cuzco, during which he assembled the priests of the temples and diviners of the oracles. He ordered sacrifices to be made, and the offering of the capacocha was celebrated with grandeur and great outlay, the mouth-pieces of the oracles returning very full of gold. Each one gave a reply such as was most likely to please the king. The grandest road was constructed that there is in the world, as well as the longest, for it extended from Cuzco to Quito, and was connected with that from Cuzco to Chile. When Huayna Capac set out along the road which had been made by his order, he marched until he arrived at Vilcas, where he rested for a few days in the lodgings which had been made near those of his father.
