In these provinces of the Antis they usually worshipped the tigers as gods, and also the great serpents that they called Amaru; these serpents are much larger round than the girth of a man's thigh, and twenty-five or thirty feet long, others being smaller. The Indians worshipped them by reason of their greatness and monstrosity; they are harmless, and they say that a magician bewitched them so that they could do no harm, but that before they were exceedingly ferocious. They worshipped the tiger by reason of its ferocity and courage; and they said that the serpents and tigers were the original possessors of the land, and that they had a right to adoration as its lords, while the Indians themselves were strangers. They also adored the herb called cuca, or coca as the Spaniards spell it. In this expedition the prince Yahuar-huaccac increased the boundaries of the empire by nearly thirty leagues of land, though the new territory was thinly populated; he did not advance any further, owing to the difficulty of passing the forests, swamps, and morasses in that region. The province is called Anti, and hence all the territory on that side is known as Antisuyu.

Having completed the conquest, the prince returned to Cuzco. The king his father then desisted from further conquests, for in Antisuyu, to the eastward, there was nothing left to conquer; and to the westward, which is called Cuntisuya, there was also no province unsubdued; the empire extending in that direction as far as the sea coast.