ABSTRACT

Translated from the original manuscript in the Library of the University at Goettingen (Col. ms. hist. 809) as published by R. Pietschmann in Abhandlungen d. K. Gesellschaft d. Wiss. zu Goettingen. Philol. Hist. Kl., N.F., Bd. VI, no. 4 (1906). The second part of the author's Historia indica; a first part (Historia natural destas tierras) and a third which was to contain the history of the conquest until 1572 were projected, but apparently never completed. The first text was dedicated to Philip II in 1572; the second was written in 1610. The edition includes a bibliography of Peru, pp. 341-58. Pagination of this and the Supplement is continuous.The Supplement is another eye-witness account. Internally stated to have been issued as a separate item, yet in fact bound within the previous item. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.

chapter |18 pages

Dedicatory letter to King Philip II

chapter I|2 pages

Division of the history

chapter III|4 pages

Description of the ancient Atlantic Island

chapter V|5 pages

Inhabitants of the Atlantic Island

chapter IX|4 pages

The first settlers in the valley of Cuzco

chapter XVI|2 pages

The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca

chapter XVII|3 pages

The life of Mayta Ccapac, the fourth Inca

chapter XVIII|1 pages

The life of Ccapac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca

chapter XIX|3 pages

The life of Inca Rocca, the sixth Inca

chapter XXIV|3 pages

Life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca

chapter XXVII|5 pages

Coming of the Chancas against Cuzco

chapter XLIII|4 pages

How Pachacuti armed his son Tupac Inca

chapter XLVII|2 pages

Death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui

chapter XLVIII|1 pages

The life of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca

chapter LI|2 pages

Tupac Inca makes the Yanaconas

chapter LIII|2 pages

Tupac Inca makes the fortress of Cuzco

chapter LIV|1 pages

Death of Tupac Inca Yupanqui

chapter LV|2 pages

The life of Huayna Ccapac, eleventh Inca

chapter LVIII|1 pages

Huayna Ccapac conquers Chachapoyas

chapter LXII|3 pages

What Huayna Ccapac did after the said wars

chapter LXVIII|2 pages

News of the Spaniards comes to Atahualpa