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must admit that they succeeded in governing well, and more especially in maintaining intact their own religious and political prestige.

Now this very cleverness, this conscious and often extremely deliberate and astutely calculated policy, compels us to ask how far the Incas themselves were sincere in their pretension to be descended from the Sun, and their faith in the very special favour in which the great luminary held them. There is so much rationalism in their habitual tactics, that one cannot help suspecting a touch of it in their beliefs. And the truth is that their descendant, Garcilasso, has recorded certain traditions to that effect, which he has perhaps dressed up a little too much in Euro-

Mayta Capac,		died about		1156
Capac Yupanqui,		„		1197
Inca Roca,		„		1249
Yahuar Huacac,		„		1289
Viracocha Inca Ripac		„		1340
[Inca Urco, who only reigned 11 days, is omitted by Garcilasso]
Tito Manco Capac Pachacutec,		„		1400
Yupanqui,		„		1438
Tupac Yupanqui,		„		1475
Huayna Capac,		„		1525
Huascar,	}	„	{	1532
Atahualpa,		„		1533