[286] Landa sent in a report of his expedition to the Corregidor of Cuzco. My friend Dr. Don Julian Ochoa, the rector of the university of Cuzco, has recently searched the archives of the ancient municipality of that city, as well as private collections, for this interesting document, at my request, but without success.
[287] See Cuzco and Lima, chap. viii.; also Roy. Geo. Soc. Journal for 1855.
[288] This is not the great river which flows near Cuzco, and falls into the Ucayali. The Indians call all rivers which serve as the trunk or centre of a system of streams Huilca or Vilca-mayu.
[289] Brother of the present rector of the university of Cuzco.
[290] Account of the Valleys of Marcapata, by Don José Maria Pacheco. Museo Erudito del Cuzco, 1839, No. 21. See also an account of a journey down the course of the river Marcapata as far as its junction with the Ollachea, signed Paul Marcoy, in the Revue Contemporaine, tom. 4me, 1860. Scènes et Paysages dans les Andes.
[291] Comm. Real, ii. lib. iii. cap. xix. p. 174.
[292] Lib. iv. cap. iv.
[293] Don Pablo Pimentel says that the ancient name of the province was Inahuaya.
[294] Bosquejo del estado actual de la provincia de Carabaya, y majorias que proponen al Supremo Gobierno el Suprefecto de ella, Don Pablo Pimentel. Arequipa, 1846.
[295] Memorias de los Vireyeo, i. p. 36.