Table of Contents

Dedication to General Caceres; Introduction; Fragment of chapter 3; 4. Which treats of what the Indians of this kingdom say touching the state of things before the Incas were known; 5. Touching what these natives say concerning the Ticivira-cocha; 6. How certain men and women appeared in Pacaree Tampu; 7. How the brothers, being in Tampu-Quiru, beheld him whom they had shut up in the cave by deceit, come forth with wings; 8. How Manco Capac founded Cuzco; 9. The author prefers to explain the government of the people, their laws, and customs; 10. How the lord was married to his sister the Coya; 11. How it was the custom among the Incas that they celebrated in their songs; 12. How they had chroniclers to record their deeds; 13. How the lords of Peru were beloved on the one hand, and feared on the other, by all their subjects; 14. How the riches possessed by the king were very great; 15. How they built the edifices for the lords; 16. How and in what manner they made the royal hunts for the lords of Peru; 17. Which treats of the order maintained by the Incas; 18. Which treats of the order they adopted in the payments of tribute by the provinces; 19. How the kings of Cuzco ordered that every year an account should be taken of all persons who died and were born; 20. How governors were appointed to the provinces; 21. How the posts of the kingdom were arranged; 22. How the Mitimaes were established; 23. Of the great preparations that were made when the lords set out on warlike expeditions; 24. How the Incas ordered the people to form settled towns; 25. How the Incas were free from the abominable sin; 26. How the Incas employed councillors and executors of justice; 27. Which treats of the riches of the temple of Curicancha; 28. Which treats of the other principal temples; 29. How the Capacocha was made; 30. How they made great festivities and sacrifices; 31. Of the second king or Inca who reigned in Cuzco, named Sinchi Roca; 32. Of the third king who reigned at Cuzco, named Lloque Yupanqui; 33. Of the fourth king who reigned at Cuzco, named Mayta Capac; 34. Of the fifth king who reigned at Cuzco, named Capac Yupanqui; 35. Of the sixth king who reigned in Cuzco, and of what happened in his time; 36. Of the seventh king or Inca who reigned in Cuzco, named Inca Yupanqui; 37. How, when this Inca wanted to make war in the province of Collao, a certain disturbance arose in Cuzco; 38. How the Orejones considered who should be Inca; 39. How Viracocha Inca threw a stone of fire with a sling at Caitomarca; 40. How a tyrant rose up in Cuzco; 41. How ambassadors from the tyrants of Collao came to Cuzco; 42. How Viracocha Inca passed by the province of the Canches and Canas; 43. How Cari returned to Chucuito; 44. How Inca Urco was received as supreme ruler of the whole empire; 45. How the Chancas arrived at the city of Cuzco; 46. How Inca Yupanqui was received as king; 47. How Inca Yupanqui set out from Cuzco; 48. How the Inca returned to Vilcas; 49. How Inca Yupanqui ordered Lloque Yupanqui to proceed to the valley of Xauxa; 50. How the captains of the Inca left Xauxa; 51. How the royal house of the sun was founded on a hill overlooking Cuzco; 52. How Inca Yupanqui set out from Cuzco and marched to the Collao; 53. How Inca Yupanqui set out from Cuzco; 54. How the Inca Yupanqui, having grown very old, resigned the government of the kingdom to Tupac Inca, his son; 55. How the Collas asked for peace; 56. How Tupac Inca Yupanqui set out from Cuzco; 57. How the Inca sent from Quito to know whether his commands had been obeyed; 58. How Tupac Inca Yupanqui marched by the coast valleys; 59. How Tupac Inca again set out form Cuzco; 60. How Tupac Inca once more set out from Cuzco, and of his death; 61. How Huayana Capac reigned in Cuzco; How Huayna Capac departed from Cuzco; 63. How Huayna Capac again ordered that an army should be assembled; 64. Ho

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Volume 68 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1883) contains a sixteenth-century description of Inca society.