A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595- 



of silver and golde unwrought in Cuzco which was lost by 

 the death of Guascar, for the Indians hid it, seeing that the 

 Spaniards tooke it, and sent it into Spaine. 



And in the 117. chapter Francisco Pizarro caused the 

 gold and silver of Atabalipa to be weyed after he had 

 taken it, which Lopez setteth downe in these words 

 following. Hallaron cinquenta y dos mil marcos de buena 

 plata, y un millon y trezientos y veinte y seys mil, y 

 quinientos pesos de oro, Which is : They found fiftie and 

 [III. 635.] two thousand markes of good silver, and one million, and 

 three hundred twenty and sixe thousand and five hundred 

 pezos of golde. 



Now although these reports may seeme strange, yet if 

 we consider the many millions which are dayly brought 

 out of Peru into Spaine, wee may easily beleeve the same : 

 for we finde that by the abundant treasure of that countrey 

 the Spanish king vexeth all the princes of Europe, and is 

 become, in a few yeeres, from a poore king of Castile, the 

 greatest monarch of this part of the world, and likely 

 every day to increase, if other princes forslow the good 

 occasions offered, and suffer him to adde this empire to 

 the rest, which by farre exceedeth all the rest : if his golde 

 now indanger us, hee will then be unresistable. Such of 

 the Spanyards as afterward endevoured the conquest 

 thereof (whereof there have bene many, as shall be de- 

 clared hereafter) thought that this Inga (of whom this 

 emperour now living is descended) tooke his way by the 

 river of Amazones, by that branch which is called Papa- 

 mene : for by that way followed Orellana (by the 

 commandement of Gonzalo Pizarro, in the yere 1542) 

 whose name the river also beareth this day, which is also 

 by others called Marannon, although Andrew Thevet 

 doeth afHrme that betweene Marannon and Amazones 

 there are 1 20 leagues : but sure it is that those rivers have 

 one head and beginning, and the Marannon, which Thevet 

 describeth, is but a branch of Amazones or Orellana, 

 of which I will speake more in another place. It was 

 attempted by Ordas ; but it is now little lesse then 70 



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