INDEX
425
- Galapagos Islands: voyage of Inca Tupac Yupanqui to, 93, 184, 185; two islands called Hahua-chumpi and Nina-chumpi, 184
- Garcia, Gregorio de: in possession of the manuscript of Betanzos, 4
- Garcia de Melo : sent the first asparagus to Cuzco, 267
- Garcilasso de la Vega (the father): married to an Inca princess, 260; his noble lineage, 261; birth and early career, 261, 262; came to Peru with Alvarado, war services, settled at Cuzco, 262; position of his house at Cuzco, 263; flight from Cuzco, at the battle of Huarina, 269; flight from Giron's rebellion, 272; return to Cuzco, 273; his estates, 273; founded a hospital for Indians, 273; kindness to sons of Pedro del Barco, 273; illness and death, 274, 275
- Garcilasso Inca de la Vega: author's translation of the first part of his Royal Commentaries, x n.; quotes Acosta, 9; on Tiahuanacu, 29; calls himself an Antarctic Indian, 31; account of Inca buildings in the fortress of Cuzco, 32; meaning of names of Ayars, 51, 53; sayings of Incas acknowledging a Supreme Being, 103; denied human sacrifices, 109; version of the Paccari-tampu myth, 140; experience of native medicines, 158, 268; on Inca invasions of the coast, 223, 238; birth and early recollections, 263 ; his relations at Cuzco, 264; school life, 264–8; an excellent topographer, 268; in cane tournaments, 268 ; house attacked, 269; goes out to meet his father, 270; kindness of Gonzalo Pizarro to, 270; learning Inca lore from his mother's relations, and the way to count the quipus, 271; adventures on the breaking out of Giron's rebellion, 272; his father's agent and secretary, 273; interview with Sayri Tupac, 274; takes leave of Polo de Ondegardo, who shows him Inca mummies, 275; goes to Spain, 275; coldly received, restitution refused, 276; captain in the Morisco war, 276; literary work, 277; MS. on the Vargas family, settled at Cordova, 277; account of his 'Commentarios Reales,' 278; obtained the MSS. of Valera, 279; quotations from other authors, 279; value of the Commentaries, 280; visit of an old schoolfellow, 280, 281; agent to his mother's relations, 281; his will, 282; legacies to his servants, 283; purchase of a mortuary chapel in Cordova Cathedral, 283; death, 283; buried at Cordova, in his chapel, 283; epitaph, 284; used the word Aymara for the language once, 315
- Garlands. See Ccuri Vincha
- Garua. See Coast
- Gasca, Pedro de la, 272, 275
- Gayangos, Don Pascual de, x
- Geography of Peru: Royal Geographical Society's map, xii; publication of the 'Relaciones Geograficas de Indias,' 8; relief maps used by the Incas, 112; the coast region of Peru, 200–206; topography of Cuzco, 268, 269
- Giron, Francisco Hernandez de: rebellion, 272; defeated at Pucara, 273
- Gold, principal sources of, 191, 197. See Breastplate
- Gomara, 15; account of a god he calls Con, 103 n.; Garcilasso's quotations from, 279
