In the more than 1,200 leagues of coast they ruled they had their representatives and governors, and many lodgings, and great storehouses filled with all necessary supplies. This was to provide for their soldiers, for in one of these depots there were lances, and in another, darts, and in others sandals, and in others, the different arms they employed. Likewise, certain depots were filled with fine clothing, others, with coarser garments, and others with food and every kind of victuals. When the lord was lodged in his dwellings and his soldiers garrisoned there, nothing, from the most important to the most trifling, but could be provided. [Cieza (1553) 1959: 68–9]

For it was their custom when they were making a progress through any part of this great kingdom to travel with great pomp and fine style, in keeping with their habits, for except when it was to the state's interest, they did not travel more than four leagues a day. And so there were lodgings and storehouses abundantly supplied with everything to be found in these regions. Even in the uninhabited areas and deserts there had to be these lodgings and storehouses, and the representatives or stewards who lived in the capital of the provinces took great care to see that the natives kept these inns or lodgings well supplied. [Ibid., p. 105]