So, what say you?"
I answered that it would be best to make an alliance with Kari, whom
I knew to be honest and no Pretender, since without his help I did not
think that it would be possible to defeat the armies of the People of
the Incas. For the rest, we must trust to chance, making no promises as
to Quilla.
"If we did they would avail little," said Huaracha, "seeing that without
doubt she is dead and only vengeance remains to us. There is more poison
in Cuzco, White Lord!"
Eight days later we were marching on Cuzco, a great host of us,
numbering at least forty thousand Chancas and twenty-five thousand of
the rebellious Yuncas, who had joined our standard.
On we marched by the great road over mountains and across plains,
driving with us numberless herds of the native sheep for food, but
meeting no man, since so soon as we were out of the territory of the
Chancas all fled at our approach. At length one night we camped upon a
hill named Carmenca and saw beneath us at a distance the mighty city of
Cuzco standing in a valley through which a river ran.
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