The missionary chronicler says that Titu Cusi was far from glad to see him and received him angrily.  It worried him to find that a Spaniard had succeeded in penetrating his retreat.  Besides, the Inca was annoyed to have any one preach against his “idolatries.”  Titu Cusi’s own story, as written down by Friar Marcos, does not agree with Calancha’s.  Anyhow, Friar Marcos built a little church in a place called Puquiura, where many of the Inca’s people were then living.  “He planted crosses in the fields and on the mountains, these being the best things to frighten off devils.”  He “suffered many insults at the hands of the chiefs and principal followers of the Inca.  Some of them did it to please the Devil, others to flatter the Inca, and many because they disliked his sermons, in which he scolded them for their vices and abominated among his converts the possession of four or six wives.  So they punished him in the matter of food, and forced him to send to Cuzco for victuals.  The Convent sent him hard-tack, which was for him a most delicious banquet.”

Within a year or so another Augustinian missionary, Friar Diego Ortiz, left Cuzco alone for Uilcapampa.  He suffered much on the road, but finally reached the retreat of the Inca and entered his presence in company with Friar Marcos.  “Although the Inca was not too happy to see a new preacher, he was willing to grant him an entrance because the Inca ... thought Friar Diego would not vex him nor take the trouble to reprove him.  So the Inca gave him a license.  They selected the town of Huarancalla, which was populous and well located in the midst of a number of other little towns and villages.  There was a distance of two or three days journey from one Convent to the other.  Leaving Friar Marcos in Puquiura, Friar Diego went to his new establishment and in a short time built a church, a house for himself, and a hospital,—­all poor buildings made in a short time.”  He also started a school for children, and became very popular as he went about healing and teaching.  He had an easier time than Friar Marcos, who, with less tact and no skill as a physician, was located nearer the center of the Inca cult.

The principal shrine of the Inca is described by Father Calancha as follows:  “Close to Vitcos [or Uiticos] in a village called Chuquipalpa, is a House of the Sun, and in it a white rock over a spring of water where the Devil appears as a visible manifestation and was worshipped by those idolators.  This was the principal mochadero of those forested mountains.  The word ‘mochadero’ [5] is the common name which the Indians apply to their places of worship.  In other words it is the only place where they practice the sacred ceremony of kissing.  The origin of this, the principal part of their ceremonial, is that very practice which Job abominates when he solemnly clears himself of all offences before God and says to Him:  ’Lord, all these punishments and even greater burdens would I have deserved had I done that which the blind Gentiles do when the sun rises resplendent or the moon shines clear and they exult in their hearts and extend their hands toward the sun and throw kisses to it,’ an act of very grave iniquity which is equivalent to denying the true God.”