When the great Inca, Huayna Capac, was on his death-bed, he recalled these prophecies, and impressed them upon the mind of his successor, so that when De Soto, the lieutenant of Pizarro, had his first interview with the envoy of Atahuallpa, the latter humbly addressed him as Viracocha, the great God, son of the Sun, and told him that it was Huayna Capac's last command to pay homage to the white men when they should arrive.[1] [Footnote 1: Garcilasso de La Vega, _Comentarios Reales_, Lib.

ix, caps.
xiv, xv; Cieza de Leon, _Relacion_, MS.

in Prescott, _Conquest of Peru_, Vol.

i, p.329.The latter is the second part of Cieza de Leon.] We need no longer entertain about such statements that suspicion or incredulity which so many historians have thought it necessary to indulge in.

They are too generally paralleled in other American hero-myths to leave the slightest doubt as to their reality, or as to their significance.