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very illustrious republic. In this imperial city there is a large Indian 

 population, nobility and commoners, comprising over 14,000 resi- 

 dents, not counting many others who come in from the adjoining 

 provinces to render service in the city, plus large numbers of Negro 

 slaves and mulattoes whom the city residents keep for their service 

 in the city and on their farms, for they have cattle ranches, sugar 

 mills, vineyards, and fields of wheat, corn, and other cereals and 

 crops, and troops of mules for traffic to Lima and other points. 



1600. This imperial city has a very fine Cathedral, one of the best 

 in the Kingdom, with a Bishop and Prebendaries who reside there 

 and serve it, together with beneficiaries, curates, and other clerics 

 for the administration of the Holy Sacraments. There are very 

 sumptuous convents — the Dominican, where the Sun Temple was ; 

 two Franciscan, the principal one in the center of the city, and 

 another, of Recollects, near the San Cristobal ridge ; Augustinian and 

 Mercedarian, all with many friars and courses in Arts and Theology. 



There is a handsome Jesuit establishment with large revenues, 

 built where the royal palaces of Huayna Capac stood, known as. 

 Amaru Cancha. Here they teach Latin and the other sciences. There 

 are two excellent nunneries, one, Santa Clara, under the direction 

 of the Franciscan friars, and the other, Santa Catalina, a foundation 

 of nuns who came from Arequipa when they had that great earth- 

 quake in the year 1600. 



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Continuing the Description of the Imperial City of Cuzco. 



1601. This noble and imperial city contains besides the Cathedral, 

 seven parishes, whose curates administer the Holy Sacrament to 

 their parishioners. These are: the parish church of San Cristobal, 

 founded by King Paullu Inca when he was baptized with Queen 

 Dona Catalina Toto Usica ; that of San Sebastian ; Santa Ana, San 

 Bias, Nuestra Seiiora de Belen, and Santiago, which is the parish 

 of the Indian silversmiths ; and the Indian General Hospital is also 

 a parish, and one of the finest hospitals in all the Indies. It was 

 founded in the year 1555, at the time when Garcilaso de la Vega 

 was Corregidor of that imperial city. This hospital has large revenues 

 for the comfort and care of the poor sick Indians, with over 300 beds. 

 One of the reasons for its establishment, besides the great consolation 

 afiforded the poor invalids, was that that gift represented some 

 recompense in satisfaction of the great debt of the Spaniards to the 

 Indians. The first day they began asking contributions for its estab- 

 lishment, the residents of the city gave 34,200 ducats, and within a 



