Plots there were
indeed, for, as I came to understand in time, they were nothing less
than the preparing of a great war which the Chancas and the Yuncas were
to wage against their over-lord, the Inca, the king of the mighty nation
of the Quichuas, who had his home at a city called Cuzco far
inland. Indeed, there and then this alliance was arranged, and by
Quilla--Quilla, who proposed to sacrifice herself and by the gift of
her person to his heir, to throw dust in the eyes of the Inca, whose
dominion her father planned to take and with it the imperial crown of
Tavantinsuyu.
Leaving the coastland, we were borne forward through the passes of great
mountains, upon a wonderful road so finely made that never had I seen
its like in England. At times we crossed rivers, but over these were
thrown bridges of stone. Or mayhap we came to swamps, yet there the road
still ran, built upon deep foundations in the mud. Never did it turn
aside; always it went on, conquering every hindrance, for this was one
of the Inca's roads that pierced Tavantinsuyu from end to end.
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