Letters of a Peruvian Princess, Vol. 1 of 2: With the Sequel (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Maflcocafac, according to the tradition of thefe people, was their Legiflator and their firfi Inca. The fun, whom they call their fa ther, and regard as a god, touched, they fay, With that barbarity in which they had for a long time lived, fent them from heaven two ot'his children, a fun and a daughter, vi ho were to give them laws, and to induce them, by cultivating the earth and raifing of cities, to become rational beings. It was therefore to Marrorapar and to his wife Goya [mama saco, that the Peruvians owed thofe principles, thofe manners and arts, by which they were made a happy people before avarice, iffuing from a world of whofe exifience they had no idea, brought tyrants to their land, whole barbarity was a difgrace to human nature, and the peculiar infamyor the age in which they lived.

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