Cusco

/ ˈkusko /

noun

In 1550 oxen were employed, for the first time, in tilling the ground in the valley of Cusco.

There is a public road through the mountains, 1000 miles in length, part of which runs from Quito to Cusco.

At Cusco the virgins of the sun offered sacrifices of bread made from Indian corn.

Garcilasso de la Vega affirms that in Peru, up to 1658, wheaten bread had not been sold in Cusco.

In 1540 he was nominated to the sees of Canaria and of Cusco, Peru, but declined both.

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