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The Royal Apartments have their vaults, in which are stored the 

 supplies, munitions, and other stores for the navy, which has Admiral's 

 and Vice Admiral's flagships. The San Pelayo has 40 pieces of 

 bronze artillery of 40 quintals and over ; the San Joseph, which is 

 the Vice Admiral's ship, has usually 32 pieces or more; there are 

 2 or 3 others, small galleons, the San Bartolome, San Felipe, and 

 Santiago ; these usually carry 18 or 20 pieces, and transport His 

 Majesty's silver and private gentlemen to Panama, with other mer- 

 chant ships without artillery or defense, in consequence of the careless 

 security in which they have been living. Two or three other galleons 

 are left for the defense of the port. 



1298. Later, since much apprehension was aroused by the corsair's 

 fleet which roamed that ocean robbing its ships and ravaging its 

 coasts, in the year 1624 the Marques de Guadalcazar built another 

 fort or bastion near the point on the open sea ; it is called San Felipe 

 de Guadalcazar, with 12 pieces of artillery, among them 2 culverins 

 of 120 quintals, and the rest half culverins and heavy cannon. In this 

 fort there is a Warden and Lieutenant, with gunners and a garrison 

 of soldiers. Near this fort are the lagoons, where they catch quan- 

 tities of excellent lisas. 



At the end of the island, he ordered another fort built, where there 

 is excellent artillery and soldiers to guard it and assist in the defense 

 on that quarter ; and there is another of the same sort at the entrance 

 to Callao, near the gristmills, for the defense of the harbor on that 

 side. There is another castle at the mouth of the Rio de Bocanegra, 

 to the N. of Callao and about half a league away, there being an 

 inlet there, at the mouths of the Rio de Lima and Rio de CarabuUo, 

 which they call the Bocanegra. Thus the port and the city of Lima 

 are guarded by these forts and castles just described, and protected 

 from enemies. 



Furthermore, in consequence of the enemy pirate's incursion of 

 the year 1624, they built 3 galliots and 13 gunboats, each with a 

 fieldpiece or small-bored culverin in the bow, and a flatboat like a 

 pontoon arranged on heavy timbers, with 4 cannon, to inflict damage 

 on the enemy's ships. 



1299. In Callao there is a General, whose annual salary is 3,000 

 assay pesos, and five Captains, whose monthly pay is 90 9-real pesos 

 each ; the Ensigns get 50, Sergeants 30, and the soldiers 20 ; there 

 are two Adjutants without pay. The Sergeant Major is one of the 

 infantry Captains, with the same pay as Captain. 



