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Excerpt from Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital
As the only ruins described in this region were those of Choqquequirau, nearly the entire Peruvian writers, including the geographer Paz Soldan, have fallen in with Raimondi’s idea that this was once the refuge of Manco. The word Choqquequirau means cradle of gold. This lent color to the story in the Spanish chronicles that Manco had carried off with him from Cuzco great quantities of gold utensils for use in his new capital.
Personally I did not feel so sure that Choqquequirau was once the Inca town of Vilcabamba. The ruins did not seem fine enough for an Inca’s residence. There were certainly no sumptuous palaces all built Of marble. Furthermore, I used to be very anxious to Visit the vicinity of Pucyura and see whether we could not find there stone remains of Inca occupation. No travellers looked as if it would have visited the ancient province and reported their discoveries, apart from Raimondi, – and he was once not satis factory. There were rumors of others, alternatively, and the Spanish chroniclers who give in detail the story of the expedition which in the long run captured the last Inca, (manco’s third son, Tupac Amaru), and drove the family out of Vilcabamba, mention a certain number of places inhabited by the Incas.
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