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A42257	The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts the first part, treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas, with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries : the second part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards : also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land, of the rise and fall of rebels, and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures / written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt.; Comentarios reales de los Incas. English	Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing G215; ESTC R2511	1,405,751	1,082

see one of their own Trees to bear two three and four sorts of Fruit in one year which being a curiosity beyond the scantling of their Understanding they have contented themselves with the admiration of it without farther search into the cause I am of opinion that Olives might be engrafted on those Trees which the Indians call Quishuar for both the Wood and the Leaf is much like an Olive and I remember when I was a Boy that I have often heard the Spaniards say that Olives and Oil did proceed from Trees like them but the truth is that Tree is barren for though it casts out a Leaf like the Olive yet it soon withers and falls for want of Canes we did usually in Cozco make our Darts of that Wood for Canes will not grow in so cold a Countrey as that CHAP. XXIX Of their Garden-Herbs and other Herbs and of the greatness of them OF all the common Herbs and Plants and Roots which are eaten in Spain there was none in Peru that is to say Lettuce Radishes Turnips Garlick Onions Beets Spinage Goards Garden-Carduus Asparagus and the like which grow in Spain onely there was Pursloin and Pennyroyal nor of Seeds had they Pease or Beans or Lentils or Anniseed or Mustard-seed or Carroways or Rice or Lavander nor many other Herbs and Plants nor had they Roses or Gillyflowers of various sorts as we have in Spain nor Jasmines nor other odoriferous Flowers Of all these Herbs and Flowers which we have already named and many others which I cannot now call to mind there are now such great quantities and which do now abound to that degree that they are cumbersome and pernitious to the ground having so spread and rooted themselves in some Vallies that they cannot be eradicated and destroyed by the Art and Industry of Mankind and having so over-run some Vallies that they have rooted out the ancient name and caused them to take that of the prevailing Weed witness that of Rucma which is now called the Valley of good Herbs upon the Coast. In the City of los Reyes the first Spinage and Endive which they sowed grew to that prodigious height that a Man could not reach the top of it with his Hand and so thick that a Horse could not pass through them and all other Herbs grew to the like rankness and largeness at the beginning in like manner Wheat in many parts yields three hundred Bushels for one In the Valley of Huarcu lately peopled by a Colony which the Vice-king Don Hurtado de Mendoça sent thither the like abundance was observable for in the Year 1560. being upon my Voyage into Spain one of the Inhabitants of that Colony called Garci Vazquez who had been a Servant to my Father carried me to his House where at Supper he gave me some Bread and told me that it was of that Corn which had yielded him three hundred for one and so much I tell you said he that you may report it of a truth in Spain which when I seemed to admire Garci Vazquez assured me that I might believe it for that upon the Faith of a Christian he had sowed no more than two Bushels and a half of Wheat and that they had produced 680 Bushels which were heaped in his Granary and that he thought he had lost as much more for want of people to gather it in Once I remember that telling this story to Gonçalo Silvestre of whom we have made mention in our History of Florida and shall have farther occasion to name him when we shall have deduced our matter to his time he confirmed the same and farther assured me that in the Province of Chuquisa●a which is near to the River of Pillcumayu and where he hath some Lands that the first Year he sowed Wheat it yielded him four hundred Bushels for one In the Year 1556. when Don Garçia de Mendoça went Governour into Chili and taking the Port of Arica in his way it was told him that in a certain Valley near to that place called Cuçapa there was a Turnip to be seen of that prodigious bigness that five Horses might be tied to the top branches of it and that if he pleased they would carry him to see it Garçia willingly accepted the profer and went thither purposely that he might say he had seen such a sight which when he saw he found the report true for the Turnip was so big that a Man could scarce encompass it with both his Armes and so tender that being brought to Garçia's quarters many people are of it In the valley which is called the Vale of good Herbs there are some Herbs of two Yards and a half long for I keep the measures of some of them and upon that assurance I give this Relation In the Year 1595. and in the Month of May being in the Cathedral Church of Cordova and there discoursing with Don Martin de Contreras and telling him that being now to write these particulars in my History I was a little scrupulous to deliver the truth of the strange increases of Corn and the prodigious growth of Herbs in my Countrey lest to many who had never gone out of their own it should seem incredible or that I took the privilege of a Traveller which is to lye but he desired me not to forbear to give a true account on such considerations leaving to them to believe what they pleased for my part I can testifie that I was an Eye-witness of the great Turnip in the Valley of Cuçapa where I was that day with Don Garçia de Mendoza and upon the Faith of a Gentleman I saw the five Horses tied to the tops of the Turnip and that afterwards I ate some of it with several others and farther I can add that the same day I saw in the Valley of Yca a Melon which weighed an hundred and three pounds weight the truth of which was attested before a publick Notary and in the Valley of Yucay I ate of one Root of Lettuce which weighed seven pounds and an half Many other things of the like kind concerning Corn Fruit and Herbs this Gentleman related to me which I omit to mention that I may not seem tedious to the Reader Acosta in the 19th Chapter of his 4th Book where he treats of the Greens Herbs and Fruits of Peru hath these very Words which I have extracted verbatim I have never heard said he that the Indians ever had Gardens for Herbs onely that they digged some little pieces of ground to sow Herbs Pease Beans and Fitches nor have I learned that ever any kind of these several sorts of Pulse which grow in Europe were found in Peru untill they were first imported by the Spaniards which since have grown and increased in a wonderfull manner for the fertility of those Countries far exceeds the soil of Spain as we have given an example of the Melons which grow in the Valley of Yca in Peru which are not sown every year like

company to eat with him every day intimating that the charge of Victuals was inconsiderable provided that the reckoning were not inflamed with Wine which yet was not refused so much for the dearness of it as for the total want there was sometimes of it being brought from so remote parts as Spain CHAP. XXVII Of the Olive Plants and who brought them first to Peru. IN the same Year of 1560. Don Antonlo de Ribera an Inhabitant of the City of los Reyes who had been Procurator General of Peru and lived some time there and going afterwards into Spain and returning back again he brought with him from Seville several Olive Plants which he carefully saved and put up in two great Jars and of above a hundred which he had brought there were but three slips onely that were alive the which he planted in a fruitfull Soil and Valley wherein he having also other Fruits such as Grapes Figgs Pomegranats and Oranges Limes and the like with Pulse and Seeds of Spain he sold them publickly in the Market-place of that City which being new Fruit were bought up at any prices and as I am informed for certain that he made above two hundred thousand Pieces of Eight thereof Don Antonio de Ribera having planted these Olive Trees in his own Land would not afford so much as one Leaf of them to be planted in any other Ground than his own and for security of them he guarded them with at least one hundred Negroes and thirty Dogs which watched his rich Plantations both by day and night but it happening out that some persons more watchfull than his Dogs and perhaps by the connivance or consent of the Negroes as is to be suspected stole away in the night time one of the three Olive Plants the which in some time after was seen to flourish and grow in Chili being above six hundred Leagues from the City of Los Reyes and there for the space of three Years afforded many sprouts for divers Plantations increasing with that prosperous success that not the least twig was put into the ground but which took and in a short time became a fair Olive Tree Don Antcnio de Ribera for recovery of his Plants having procured many Excommunications against the Authours of this Theft at the end of three years it came to pass that the same Tree was again restored and replanted in the very same place from whence it had been taken with that secrecy and with that dexterity returned that the Master could never detect the Person who had robbed him of it The Olive-plantations have thrived better in Chili than they have done in Peru the reason whereof may be because the Climate of Chili may be more agreeable to them being situate from thirty to forty degrees being almost of the same temperature with Spain and in Peru they thrive better in the Hills than in the Plains At first three or four Olives were a great Treat for a Stranger but now at this time they bring Oil from Chili to Peru. And thus much shall serve to have spoken concerning the first plantations of Olives in my Countrey let us proceed to other Plants Pulse and Seeds which were not originally in my Countrey CHAP. XXVIII Of other Fruits of Spain and Sugar Canes IT is most certain that anciently in Peru there were neither Figs nor Pomegranates nor Oranges nor sweet or sower Lemons nor Apples nor Pears nor Quinces nor Nectarines nor Peaches nor Apricocks nor Plumbs of any sort like those in Spain onely they have one sort of Plumb different from ours which the Spaniards call Melas and the Indians Ussun nor had they Melons or Cucumbers nor Goards which we dress and stew in our Dishes Of all these Fruits which I have named and many others which I cannot call to mind there was not any sort found in Peru when the Spaniards at first entred the Countrey and yet now the abundance of them is so great that they are not esteemed and like the Cattel the number is so increased that the Spaniards themselves have admired the plenty When Pomegranates were first produced in the City of los Reyes they carried one of them of a prodigious greatness in procession laying it upon the Pageant of the most holy Sacrament when that was carried in triumph on the Festival day of Corpus Christi I dare not describe the bigness of it lest I should be thought to tell a Traveller's Story and offend the incredulity of ignorant People who conceive the perfection of all worldly things to be contained within the compass of their own Village Howsoever it would seem an imprudent caution and too much nicety for a Man to forbear to relate the great Wonders of Nature for fear of offending the ignorant sort of Mankind and therefore I shall take the boldness to report with confidence that the Pomegranate of which I speak was as big as the Vessel in which they ordinarily carried Oil from Seville into the Indies and many bunches of Grapes have weighed eight or ten pound weight and Citrons half a hundred and Quinces as big as a Man's Head. And thus much for the Fruit. Now as to other Trees and Plants we shall deliver that which is as strange and wonderfull as the former I should gladly know the Names and Conditions of those Persons who were so curious and industrious as to import them into these parts that so I might specifie and record them in this History as worthy of due Praise and Honour In the Year 1580. a Spaniard called Gaspar de Alcoçer who was a rich Merchant in the City of los Reyes and had there a very fair Plantation was the first that brought Cherries and Mazards into that Countrey which as they tell me are all dead by reason of the over great care they had of them and the many experiments they tried to make them grow Nor were there anciently Sugar-Canes in Peru though now by the industry of the Spaniards and the fertility of the soil they are increased to a loathsome plenty that whereas formerly they were highly they esteemed are now become of no value or estimation The first Sugar Works of Peru were made in Huanacu by the contrivance of a Gentleman with whom I was well acquainted a Servant of his who was a subtile and ingenious Person observing the great quantities of Sugar which were imported from Mexico by reason of which the Sugar of that Countrey would not sell to any Account advised his Master to send one Ship 's lading of his Sugar into New Spain that they seeing thereby the plenty of that Commodity in Peru might forbear to send any more thither the project succeeded according to expectation and now Sugar-works are erected in many places of that Countrey I have been told that some Spaniards who have been curious in Husbandry have engrafted the Fruits of Spain upon the wild Stocks of Peru to the great admiration of the Indians who have been astonished to