Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-05-17

- eiiS iiiiiJ IdIlllS d great garden
made IN two terraces, perhaps 500 feet above
Cuzco, stood the palace of Nance Capac,
the hrst great Inca ruler. This was right
under the Notifications and it commanded
magnificent view of the city and valley. On
the first terrace now stands church which
was erected there in the days Of the Inoui-
sltlon, and outside it, in what you might call
the churchyard, are some great stone instru-
ments OF torture, that were used to bring the
Indians and heretics to the Christian reli-
glon. Some of these stones were made in
the shape of keyhoe, the round part of the
hole being nearest the ground the remain
der of the keyhole being in the form of a
capital T. The hole was Just large enough
SO that the mans head could be squeezed
through it, his neck lying as it were on the
stone tie was put into this position on his
belly and after his head was put through
the hole his legs were bent I'D over his back
and his feet thrust through the T part OF the
key, bending his body, as it were, in knot.
he torture was such that it often caused
death. | had my stenographer get down
and put his head through the hole to illus
trate how 1t was done. | also tried to in
duce him to let me put his legs through the
I, but this he refused.
The palace of Nance Capac must have
been magnificent home It's garden COW
cred acres, the main part standing upon
terrace, which was II feet above the church
L have described. This terrace is made of
these wonderful walls into which were fitted
sentinel boxes
Walking through the garden which is
now hlled with eucalyptus trees and beauti-
ful roses, came to the ruins of the building
itself. 1t was made of black granite, the
blocks being very thick at the bottom and
lessening in size from there to the top. l
went around to the opposite side Of the
structure where some of the stones had been
torn away. Here I could see that the thick
walls were double. They had two separate
walls of granite, which were filled in with
stones and mud. | took sheet of paper
from my note book and tried to fit it in be-
tween the cracks but found it impossible.
Nance Capac's palace and its grounds are
now the property of Caesar Lomelini. a
wealthy Italian merchant of Cuzco He has
planted the garden to flowers, and the trees
which have grown in it now almost hide the
city below.
Leaving the palace and climbing up to
the fort, found an enormous structure SUR
rounding many acres, and incosing the
whole top of the hill. The walls of the forti-
hcation are in terraces rising one over the
other. They are made of enormous blocks
of granite, some of which weigh many tons.
There is no stone of the same nature nearby,
and the stone must have been brought from
a great distance. No one knows exactly
where it came from nor how it was carried
up this precipitous HILL which is almost a
thousand feet from the plain. 1t is supposed
that roads were made for the purpose and
that hundreds of men had to work together
to move single stone. The fort was built
long before the time of Columbus, and some
of its walls are in perfect condition today
Each section of the wall has its hole for
drainage, and the whole structure is almost
as smoothly cut as the palaces. measured
some stones which were Is feet tall, and rid
ing on horseback close to the wall beside
one great block I stood up in my stirrups
and tried to reach to its top The distance
from my hand to the ground was only half
the way up. That stone, venture, weighed
100 tons.
From these Notifications rode over the
hills and plains in the rear They are COW
cred with the remains of the Incas. Much
of the rock consists of mighty powders,
some as big as haystack, which the Incas