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III. Tucuman. IV, Paraguay. 



V. Buenos Ay res. 

 Archbishoprick of the Audience of Chacas, or 

 Chuquisaca, 

 La Plata. 

 The Spanianis having conquered all the pro- 

 vinces between Turabcz and Cusco, and quelled the 

 tumults formed among the conquerors themselves, 

 turned their thoughts on reducing the more remote 

 nations. Accordingly in the year 1538, Gonzalo 

 Pizarro, and other commanders, marched from Cus- 

 co at the head of a large body of troops, and ad- 

 vancing as far as Charcas, were opposed by the 

 iiations inhabiting this country, and the Carangues, 

 with such vigour, that it was not till after several 

 obstinate battles that they submitted. But their re- 

 sistance did not equal that made by the Chuquisa- 

 cans ; for Pizarro having, after several actions, pene- 

 trated to their principal town, they besieged him in 

 ¿t, and the danger was so great, that without the 

 speedy snccoiirá sent him from Cusco by his brother 

 the ii-iarquis Don Francisco Pizarro, the few Spani- 

 ards who survived the form.er actions would have 

 been all cut oiT. But on the arrival of this rein- 

 fcrcement, an^ong which were a great number of 

 volunteers of distinction, he routed the Indians, who 

 feeing no longer able to continue the war, submitted, 

 and acknowledged the sovereignty of the king of Spain, 

 In the following year 1539, Pizarro, convinced of 

 Ihc importance of making a strong settiemeiit there, 

 í'onnnissioned captain Pedro Anzures to build a, 

 town, which was accordingly done on the site of 

 fhat of Chuquisaca, and great numbers of those who 

 had shared in the conquest, continued there in order 

 to subdue the other contiguous nations. This town 

 they called Plata, alluding to the silver mines of the 

 iiiouiitain of Porco in its neighbourhood, and from 

 which the Yncas received great quantities of silver, 



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