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every day I take a turn around the world to see and discover the wants and necessities of all things, in order that, as their true fomenter and parent, I may apply myself to their succour and redress. Thus, after my example, and as my children, sent upon the earth, I would have you imitate me, and to instil such doctrine into this people as may convert them from beasts unto men. And henceforth I constitute and ordain you king and queen over this nation, that by your instructions, reason, and government, they may be preserved. After our Father, the Sun, had thus declared his pleasure to these, his two children, he dispatched them from him; and, in taking their journey northward from Titicaca, at every place where they came to repose, they tried to strike their wedge into the ground, but to no effect; but, at length they arrived at a little inn or place of rest, in the valley of Cuzco, where they again struck their wedge of gold into the earth, which received it with the greatest ease, and which sucked it in, and they saw it no more. Then, said the Inca to his sister and wife—in this valley, our Father, the Sun, hath commanded that we should stay, and make our abode, and in so doing we shall obey his will; in pursuance whereof, it is necessary that we now separate from each other, and take different ways that we may assemble and draw the people together in such manner as we may be able to preach and propagate the doctrine among them, which has been committed to us. Our Inca, accordingly, took his way northward, and his wife to the southward, and to all the men and women, whom they met in the wild forests and uncultivated places, they declared to them that their Father, the Sun, had sent them to be teachers and benefactors, and to deliver them from the savage life they led to another, more agreeable to reason, justice, and humanity. And in further pursuance of the commands of our Father, the Sun, they had come to gather these people from the mountains and rude places, to more convenient