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Scene I.]
OLLANTA.
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Rumi-Ñahui.

Ñacha maytapas puririn
Quimsantin ppunchauñaschusan
Huasinmanta pichu pusan
Chay raycun mana ricurin.

Where can he have gone
In these three days,
That he has been away from his house?
Why is he not found?


Enter an Indian with a quipu.

Indian.

Cay quiputan apamuyqui
Urupampamanta46 cunan
[Huc chimlliypin ynti munan
Hamunayta ñan ricuyqui].

I bring you this quipu
From Urupampa,
They ordered me to come quickly.
Now you have seen it.


Ynca Pachacutec.

Yman chaycunapi simi?

What news are these?


Indian.

Chay quipucha huillasunqui.

That quipu will tell thee.


Brings a pole with coloured wool and grains of maize hanging from it.

Rumi-Ñahui.

Caycca llanta: ñan ccahuahuan
Cay umanpi huatasccaña
Cay rurucunari runam

There is here a pole
To which a skein of wool is fastened:
It reveals that there are as many men

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