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15
THE INCAS’ LAST STAND

PAGE

353
“Of the gods we believe”:
Thucydides,
The History of the Peloponnesian War
, quoted in Andrew Schmookler,
The Parable of the Tribes
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), 47.
353
Four years later:
James Lockhart,
Spanish Peru: 1532–1560
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), 12.
355
“[It] is true that what”:
Baltasar Ramírez,
Descripción del Reyno del Piru, del Sitio Temple, Provincias, Obispados, y Ciudades, de los Naturales de sus Lenguas y Trage
, in Herman Trimborn,
Quellen zur Kulturgeschichte des Präkolumbischen Amerika
(Stuttgart: 1936), 26.
355
“They grieve because”:
Hernando de Santillán,
Relación
, in Horacio Urteaga (ed.),
Colección de Libros y Documentos Referentes a la Historia del Perú
, Second Series, Vol. 9 (Lima: 1927), 73.
357
“took it upon himself”:
Father Bernabé Cobo, in Roland Hamilton (trans.),
History of the Inca Empire
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983), 181.
359
“The Indians of Peru were so idolatrous”:
Father Bernabé Cobo, in Roland Hamilton (trans.),
Inca Religion and Customs
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 3.
359
“punished them”: Antonio de la Calancha,
Crónica Moralizada de Antonio de la Calancha
, Vol. 5 (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de
San Marcos, 1978), 1804.
360
“the servant of God”:
Ibid., 1806.
360
“I want to take you”:
Ibid., 1817.
360
“tried to go to Vilcabamba”:
Ibid.
360
“Not used to getting”:
Ibid., 1818.
361
“[The friars] have not baptized”:
Inca Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui,
Relación de la Conquista del Perú
, in Carlos Romero,
Colección de Libros y Documentos Referentes a la Historia del Perú
, First Series, Vol. 2 (Lima: 1916), 107.
361
“the worship, rites”:
Calancha,
Crónica Moralizada
, 1820.
362
“a temple of the Sun”:
Ibid., 1800, 1827.
362
“The Inca emperor’s captains”:
Ibid., 1830.
363
“remained there all day”:
Ibid., 1838.
364
“He [Ortiz] responded”:
Martín de Murúa,
Historia General del Perú
(Madrid: DASTIN, 2001), 263.
367
“If you have faith”:
Francisco de Toledo, quoted in Antonio Bautista de Salazar,
Relación Sobre el Período de Gobierno de los Virreyes Don Francisco de Toledo y Don García Hurtado de Mendoza
(1596), in Luis Torres de Mendoza (ed.),
Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista, y Colonización de las Antiguas Posesiones Espanñolas de América y Oceanía Sacados de los Archivos del Reino y Muy Especialmente de Indias
, Vol. 8 (Madrid: 1867), 267.
367
“Your Majesty will appreciate”:
Francisco de Toledo, in Roberto Levillier,
Los Gobernantes del Perú
, Vol. 4 (Madrid: 1924), 295.
369
“General Martín”:
Murúa,
Historia
, 285.
369
“found [Vilcabamba]”:
Martín Hurtado de Arbieto,
Report to Viceroy Francisco de Toledo
, in Roberto Levillier (ed.),
Don Francisco de Toledo: Supremo Organizador del Perú, Su Vida, Su Obra (1515–1582)
, Vol. 1 (Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1935), 329.
369
“The entire town was found”:
Murúa,
Historia
, 286.
370
“The town has, or it”:
Ibid., 287.
371
“[When] war was declared”:
Martín García de Oñaz y Loyola,
Información de Servicios de Martín García de Oñaz y Loyola
, in Victor Maurtua (ed.),
Juicio de Límites Entre el Perú y Bolivia
, Vol. 7 (Barcelona: 1906), 3.
372
“Tupac Amaru”:
Ibid., 4.
372
“five days previously”:
Ibid., 291.
375
“So many natives attended”:
Antonio de Vega Loaiza,
Historia del Colegio y Universidad de San Ignacio de Loyola de la Ciudad del Cuzco
(1590), quoted in Rubén Vargas Ugarte,
Historia del Perú Virreinato (1551–1600)
(Lima: 1949), 257.
375
“The open spaces”:
Baltasar de Ocampo, in Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa,
History of the Incas
(Mineola: Dover, 1999), 226.
375
“a street mule”:
Ibid., 258.
375
“The Inca was taken from”:
Ibid., 226.
376
“Where are you going”:
Vega Loaiza,
Historia del Colegio
, quoted in Ugarte,
Historia del Perú Virreinato
, 258.
376
“The balconies were packed”:
Murúa,
Historia
, 298.
376
“As the multitude of Indians”:
Ibid.
376
“let it fall”:
Ocampo, in Sarmiento de Gamboa,
History
, 227.
377
“‘Lords, you are [gathered] here from’”:
Bautista de Salazar,
Relación
, 280.
377
“The Inca then received consolation”:
Ocampo, in Sarmiento de Gamboa,
History
, 228.

16.
THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST CITY” OF THE INCAS

PAGE

379
“Something hidden!”:
Rudyard Kipling, “The Explorer,” in
Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, Inclusive Edition
(Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1920), 120.
381
“My previous studies”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City of the Incas
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002), 95.
381
“A little farther up”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922), 165.
382
“The Prefect was particularly”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 95.
383
“Magnificent precipices”:
Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins of Choqquequirau,” in
American Anthropologist
, New Series, Vol. 12 (1910): 513.
383
“At the top of the southern”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 107.
383
“Fortunately I had with me”:
Ibid., 106.
383
M. Eugene de Sartiges:
Ibid., 111.
384
“The walls … [at Choqquequirau]”:
Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins,” in
American Anthropologist
, New Series, Vol. 12 (1910), 516.
384
“Personally, I did”:
Hiram Bingham, “A Search for the Last Inca Capital,”
Harper’s
, Vol. 125, No. 749 (October 1912): 698.
385
“down the valley by Yucay”:
Baltasar de Ocampo,
Account of the Province of Vilcapampa and a Narrative of the Inca Tupac Amaru
(1610), in Pedro Sarmiento de Gam-boa,
History of the Incas
(Mineola: Dover, 1999), 220.
385
“The fortress of Pitcos”:
Ibid., 216.
386
“On the slopes of Choqquequirau”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 2.
388
Visiting the University of Cuzco:
Albert Giesecke,
The Reminiscences of Albert A. Gieseke
(1962), in
The New York Times Oral History Program: Columbia University Collection
, Part 2, No. 71 (New York: 1963).
388
“That there were undescribed”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 200.
389
“a talkative old fellow”:
Ibid., 201.
390
“Sub-prefect drunk”:
Alfred Bingham,
Portrait of an Explorer
(Greenwich: Triune, 2000), 4.
390
“My Dearly Beloved”:
Ibid., 150.
391
“Before the completion”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 208.
392
“Here the river escapes”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 173.
392
“In the … power”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 314.
392
“We passed an ill-kept”:
Hiram Bingham, Ibid., 215.
393
“dawned in a cold”:
Hiram Bingham, Ibid., 315.
394
“And no one cared”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 175.
395
“Shortly after noon”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 317.
395
“Without the slightest expectation”:
Ibid., 319.
395
The Sergeant was in duty:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 178.
395
Hardly had we rounded:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 319.
396
The task had been too great:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 178.
396
“another group of interesting”:
Ibid., 124.
396
“We scrambled along”:
Ibid., 179.
397
“Some structures of stone”:
Alfred Bingham,
Explorer
, 13.
397
Lizarraga 1902:
Ibid., 13.
398
“When I first saw”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 216.
399
“No special things”:
Alfred Bingham, “Raiders of the Lost City,”
American Heritage
, Vol. 38, No. 5 (July–August 1987): 61.
399
“They [the Incas] guarded”:
Ocampo,
Account of the Province
, 216.
399
“marched from Cusco down”:
Ibid., 219.
400
“Our next stop was”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 235.
400
“We … forded the Vilcabamba”:
Ibid., 237.
401
We hoped it might be true:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 132.
401
“indeed a residence”:
Ibid., 135.
401
“the fortress of Pitcos”:
Ocampo,
Account of the Province
, 216.
402
“Near Vitcos, in a village”:
Antonio de la Calancha,
Crónica Moralizada de Antonio de la Calancha
, Vol. 5 (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1978), 1800, 1827.
402
Questioning his:
The area was also known as Ñusta Ispanan, “the place where the Inca Princess urinates.” See Vincent Lee,
Forgotten Vilcabamba
(Cortéz: Sixpac Manco, 2000), 142.
402
“It was late on the afternoon”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 137.
403
“I went out collecting”:
Alfred Bingham,
Explorer
, 186.
404
“When Don Pedro”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 266.
405
“On the day following our arrival”:
Hiram Bingham, Ibid., 268.
405
One of our
informants:
Ibid., 269.
405
Although no one at Vilcabamba:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City
, 149.
406
“We were conducted”:
Ibid., 274.
406
“It is difficult to describe”:
Ibid., 285.
407
“Half an hour’s scramble”:
Ibid., 294.
408
“like a succession”:
Ibid., 290.
408
“the [Inca] priests”:
Ibid., 297.
408
“two long days”:
Calancha,
Crónica Moralizada
, 1796, 1820.
409
“With one exception”:
Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins of Espíritu Pampa,”
American Anthropologist
, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April–June 1914): 196.
409
“Perhaps an Inca”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 295.
409
“Espíritu Pampa or Vilcabamba”:
Alfred Bingham,
Explorer
, 196.
411
“In its last state”:
Hiram Bingham,
Inca Land
, 340.
411
“The ‘Lost City of the Incas’”:
Hiram Bingham,
Lost City of the Incas
(New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948), third photo insert, 2.

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