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pesos ; its administration is conducted like that of San Andres. At 

 that same time the Marques de Salinas, Don Luis de Velasco, aided 

 by the warm-hearted charity of saintly Padre Juan Sebastian of 

 the Company of Jesus, established a Confraternity Hke that of San 

 Andres; they serve under the same arrangement, but with a larger 

 number of invalids, a women's ward apart, and infirmaries so remark- 

 able that they surpass all praise ; the beds are neat and clean and the 

 wardrobe so extensive that it can furnish what is needful for i,ooo 

 beds ; and as the Indians are used to their meals of Indian corn and 

 herbs, seasoned with aji (chilli) or pepper, they prepare them for 

 them after their fashion ; and even though there are so many of them, 

 particularly when they come down from the sierra and adjoining 

 villages into the hot country in the plains for the allotment of the 

 mitas (service assignments) for labor and cultivation on the land, 

 at the beginning of summer, the season when most are sick, they care 

 for each one with great solicitude and attention ; the deputies are 

 present at their treatment, their dinners and suppers ; they look after 

 both the food that is provided for them and the preparation of the 

 remedies prescribed for them. 



1274. There is another hospital called the Espiritu Santo, in which 

 they take care of sick sailors, with a brilliant church and fine infirmary 

 wards. Its income is derived from the ships that enter and clear the 

 port; the hospital receives a share of the profits and freight charges 

 of these ships, and as there are many of them, this city's port Callao 

 having an active commerce, the hospital benefits to the amount of 

 many thousand ducats a year. 



The hospital of San Diego belongs to the Brethren of San Juan 

 de Dios ; they take care of convalescents and the aged, providing 

 them with the necessary sustenance. It was founded by two honorable 

 married citizens of this city ; although I cannot remember their names, 

 they are written in the Book of Life. 



1275. The University and Royal Schools are so distinguished that 

 they need envy no other in the world, since they were established 

 by the Emperor Charles V, and later by Philip II, both of glorious 

 memory ; they enlarged, ennobled and enriched them, with the same 

 privileges as the University of Salamanca ; they endowed the pro- 

 fessorial chairs of Prime with i,ooo assay pesos, and those of Vespers 

 with 6oo, per annum. The Prime chairs are in Theology, Scholastics, 

 Scripture, Law, and Canons ; the Vespers, in the Institutes, the Code, 

 the Decretals, three in Philosophy, one in the Indian language for 

 the training of the priests who are to be parish priests or dotrineros ; 



