ABSTRACT
After Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz had sent off the messengers to Atahualpa, they caused the prisoners to be brought before them, and in the presence of all, and of the mother and wife of H uascar, they declared, addressing themselves to the mother of H uascar, that she was the concubine and not the wife of Huayna Ccapac, and that, being his concubine, she had borne Huascar, also that she was a vile woman and not a Coya. The troops of Atahualpa raised a shout of derision, and some said to the o1'ejones, pointing their fingers at H uascar-" Look there at your lord! who said that in the battle he would turn fire and water against his enemies?" Huascarwas then tied hand and foot on a bed of ropes of straws. The orqolzes, from shame, lowered their heads. Presently Quiz-quiz asked Huascar, ,. Who of these made you lord. there being others better and more valiant than you, who might have been chosen 1" Araua Ocllo, speaking to her son, said, " You deserve all this my son as I told you, and all comes from the cruelty with which you treated your own relations." Huascar replied, "Mother! there is now no remedy, leave us," and he addressed himself to the priest Chalco Yupanqui, saying-" Speak and answer the question asked by Quizquiz." The priest said to Quiz-quiz, .. I raised him to be lord and Inca by command of his father Huayna Ccapac, and because he was son of a Coya" (which is what we should call Infanta). Then Chalco Chima was indignant, and called the priest a deceiver and a liar. Huascar answered to Quiz-quiz, "Leave off these arguments. This is a
