The earth and its inhabitants .. . hich, in fact, did not belong to them inpersonal ownership. INHABITANTS OF PERU. 307 Besides the seed-corn, and the dole in case of famine, the State also distributedevery two years wool and leather on the uplands, and cotton in the hot family had to make its own clothes and foot-gear, also under Governmentcommissioners, scrupulously returning all remnants to the public stores. Thelivestock was similarly common property ; that is to say, the administrationappointed the herdsmen, regulated the conditions of slaughter, and on specialoccasions even
The earth and its inhabitants .. . hich, in fact, did not belong to them inpersonal ownership. INHABITANTS OF PERU. 307 Besides the seed-corn, and the dole in case of famine, the State also distributedevery two years wool and leather on the uplands, and cotton in the hot family had to make its own clothes and foot-gear, also under Governmentcommissioners, scrupulously returning all remnants to the public stores. Thelivestock was similarly common property ; that is to say, the administrationappointed the herdsmen, regulated the conditions of slaughter, and on specialoccasions even the distribution of meat. All the national customs and institutions were thus transformed by the Stateto rigid laws, until the whole people had finally become mere serfs of the divine family of the Incas. Manco Capac, founder of the dynasty, wassupposed to have suddenly appeared on an island in Tiake Titicaca, unless he fellfrom heaven, like the gold, silver and copper eggs whence sprang the chiefs, the Fig. IIS.^Stkino of nobles and the common people. But according to another legend the first Incaemerged from the ocean like the divine Yiracocba ( Sea Foam ), whose namewas transferred to the Spanish conquerors also arriving like gods from thehigh seas. During the four or five centuries of the mild sway to which the nationwas subjected it ended by adapting itself to the yoke, and obedience became blind, as required by the laws. Even culprits came forward for the most partto denounce themselves. All men were held to military service, death being thepenalty of any act of insubordination. All conquered peoples were obliged to accept the national religion, the feastsand ceremonies of which were strictly regulated by the State; the least change inthe traditional rites would, in fact, have seemed more than a crime. The publicworship, however, as well as the common tenure of land, at least kept alive the 80fi SOUTH AMERICA-THE ANDES BEGIOXS. memory of times anterior to the Inc
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