At any rate, thenceforth by this
name of Hurachi I was known throughout the land, though when addressed
for the most part I was called "Lord-from-the-Sea" or "God-of-the-Sea."
Then Quilla and the lady Mira came forward and, placing their hands
beneath my elbows, assisted me to climb out of that _balsa_, which I
think was the strangest way that ever a shipwrecked wanderer came to
land.
They led me into a large room with a flat roof that was being hastily
prepared for me by the hanging of beautiful broideries on the walls,
and sat me on a carven stool, where presently Quilla and other ladies
brought me food and a kind of intoxicating drink which they called
_chicha_, that after so many months of water drinking I found cheering
and pleasant to the taste. This food, I noted, was served to me on
platters of gold and silver, and the cups also were of gold strangely
fashioned, by which I knew that I had come to a very rich land.
Afterwards I learned, however, that in it there was no money, all the
gold and silver that it produced being used for ornament or to decorate
the temples and the palaces of the _Incas_, as they called their kings,
and other great lords.
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