As soon as he knew that the bridge was completed, the Ynca commenced his march with 12,000 armed men and experienced officers, and advanced as far as the bridge, where there was a strong guard stationed, in case an enemy should attempt to destroy it. But the people were so astonished at this new work, that they desired to receive the prince who had ordered it to be erected as their lord.

For the Indians of Peru, in those times, and even until the arrival of the Spaniards, were so simple, that any one who invented a new thing was readily recognised by them as a child of the Sun. Thus it was that, when they saw the Spaniards fighting on the backs of animals so ferocious as horses appeared to them to be, and when they beheld them killing people at a distance of two or three hundred paces, they looked upon such men as gods. Owing mainly to these two things, but also to other novel things that they beheld, the Indians held the Spaniards to be children of the Sun, and they submitted to them with little opposition; and they show the same wonder and awe whenever the Spaniards introduce a new thing which they have never seen before, such as mills grinding wheat, ploughing with oxen, or making masonry arches for the bridges. They say that, by reason of all these things, it is fitting that they should serve the Spaniards. In the time of the Ynca Mayta Ccapac their simplicity was even greater.