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Garcilasso, as far as Sucre ; and the same author credits
him with penetrating to the Amazonian forests on the
north-east, and with extracting an unwilling and, as
events proved, utterly insincere submission from certain
of the Chanca on the west. A most romantic story is
told by Sarmiento of his son and successor Yahuar-
huaccac; the name of this prince means "Weeping
blood," and is explained by the following incident. When
quite a child he was kidnapped by a disaffected chief of the
Ayamarca to the south-west of Cuzco, who had desired
to marry his mother. His cruel captor ordered him to
be killed, but the child, appalled at the prospect of im-
mediate death, wept tears of blood and prophesied ruin
and disaster for his would-be murderers. The chief was
alarmed, and spared his life, but sent him to a desolate
spot to tend llamas in the care of a body of shepherds,
from whom he eventually made his escape. This story
is told by Montesinos of the fourth chief of his early
list, and denied altogether by Garcilasso, who credits
Yahuarhuaccac with the conquest of the coast region
from Arequipa to Atacama.
