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[Illustration: Facsimile (reduced) of the COAT OF ARMS OF KING PHILIP
II., From the Sarmiento MS., 1572, Göttingen University Library.
Reproduced and printed for the Hakluyt Society by Donald Macbeth.]

HISTORY OF THE INCAS

by

PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA

Translated and Edited with Notes and an Introductionby Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B. President of the Hakluyt Society.

Cambridge: Printed for the Hakluyt Society. MDCCCCVII. Cambridge:
Printed by John Clay, M.A. at the University Press.

COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM, K.C.B., F.R.S., President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL, Vice-President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AMHERST OF HACKNEY, Vice-President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.

THOMAS B. BOWRING.

COLONEL GEORGE EARL CHURCH.

SIR WILLIAM MARTIN CONWAY, M.A., F.S.A.

THE REV. CANON JOHN NEALE DALTON, C.M.G., C.V.O.

GEORGE WILLIAM FORREST, C.I.E.

WILLIAM FOSTER, B.A.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE TAUBMIN GOLDIE, K.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S.

ALBERT GRAY, K.C.

EDWARD HEAWOOD, M.A.

COLONEL SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD HOLDICH, K.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., C.B., R.E.

JOHN SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.

ADMIRAL SIR ALBERT HASTINGS MARKHAM, K.C.B.

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM RICHARDS, G.C.B.

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR EDWARD HONART SEYMOUR, G.C.B., O.M.

LIEUT.-COL. SIR RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE, BART., C.L.E.

ROLAND VENABLES VERNON, B.A.

BASIL HARRINGTON SOULSBY, B.A., F.S.A., Honorary Secretary.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introduction

Dedicatory letter to King Philip II

I. Division of the history

II. The ancient division of the land

III. Description of the ancient Atlantic Island

IV. First inhabitants of the world and principally of the Atlantic Island

V. Inhabitants of the Atlantic Island

    VI. The fable of the origin of these barbarous Indians
          of Peru, according to their blind opinions

   VII. Fable of the second age, and creation of the
          barbarous Indians according to their account

  VIII. The ancient Behetrias of these kingdoms of
          Peru and their provinces

IX. The first settlers in the valley of Cuzco

X. How the Incas began to tyrannize over the lands and inheritances

XI. The fable of the origin of the Incas of Cuzco

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