Travels in Peru and Mexico (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... and they conducted themselves as courageously, and endured as many hardships as the other Spaniards did for the emperor. The Spaniards who were in that undertaking are surprised at what they have done. So many trials and wants but all are satisfied, and offer themselves again if it were necessary, to encounter greater dangers for the preservation of that people, and to glorify our Catholic faith. Let us speak no longer of the greatness of this country; but let us give grace and pray to our Lord for having guided us so openly with His hands for the interests of His Majesty, and of this kingdom. By His Divine Grace and Providence, and by the intercession of His blessed mother, and the hope that she will assist us in all our undertakings. This report was finished in the town of Jauja on the fifteenth day of July, 1534. Pedro Sancho attorney-general of this kingdom, New Castile, and secretary to the governor, Francisco Pizarro. By order of the governor and his officers he wrote this, and when finished, he read it before the governor and the officers of His Majesty, word by word, and this report was signed by the aforesaid governor Francisco Pizarro, and the officers Albaro Eiguelme, Antonio Navarro, and Garcia de Salcedo. (Secretary) Pedro Sancho. No. III. The following is extracted from a letter written by a gentleman of Arequipa, containing the first information I received respecting the family particularly mentioned in one of the chapters on Lima. A few Particulars connected with the Flight of Senora from the Monastery of Thereso in Arequipa. The father of the lady came from Spain in the capacity of a merchant many years previous to the rebellion, and whilst the Spanish Government with characteristic jealousy preserved a strict prohibitory system in her ...