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"Huaina Cápac went beyond Quito and reached another province called Quillacenca, "iron-nose," so called because the inhabitants bored the (Vega 1966 [1609]: 493) membrane between the nostrils and wore an ornament of copper, gold, or silver hanging over lips like an earring. The Inca found them in a very primitive and filthy condition, ill-clad and consumed by vermin which they did not trouble to remover, with no religion and no idea of worship except that one might say they adored meat, since they are so inordinately fond of it that they will steal any animals they can lay hands on (494)."
From:
Vega, Garcilaso de la
1966 [1609] Royal Commentaries of the Incas and a General History of Peru
Part One. Translated by Harold V. Livermore. University of Texas Press, Austin.
He is discussing a people who lived north of the Ecudorean capital of Quito. Huaina Cápac is the last Inca king prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1532.