En el caso del aldea Kichwa lamista, la principal actividad sobre subsistencia la representa la agricultura, con una importancia secundaria sobre la pesca desplazandolo hacia el pelo caza, asimismo, las actividades de cosecha son cada ocasion menos practicadas. La agricultura de toda la vida lamista se ha caracterizado por la rotacion sobre chacras, descansos prolongados y las cuestiones a considerar que se tiene para provocar la regeneracion del monte; sin embargo, el desarrollo de la poblacion y, en resultado, sobre la opresion demografica, ha hecho que esta clase sobre agricultura sea cada oportunidad menos practicada.
1. Some princes, so as esatto hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects; others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions; others have fostered enmities against themselves; others have laid themselves out to gain over those whom they distrusted in the beginning of their governments; some have built fortresses; some have overthrown and destroyed them.
And although one cannot give a final judgment on all of these things unless one possesses the particulars of those states mediante which per decision has onesto be made, nevertheless I will speak as comprehensively as the matter of itself will admit
2. There never was per new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, because, by arming them, those arms become yours, those men who were distrusted become faithful, and those who were faithful are kept so, and your subjects become your adherents.