432 VIEWS, &C. PLATEAU OF CAXAMAECA. 



(17) p. 415 "Expected restoration of the Inca rule" 



I have treated this subject at length in another work. 

 Sir Walter Raleigh had heard of an old prophecy current in 

 Peru, which foretold " that from Inglaterra those Ingas shoulde 

 be againe in time to come restored and deliuered from the 

 seruitude of the said conquerors. I am resolued that if there 

 were but a small army afoote in Guiana marching towards 

 Manoa, the chiefe citie of Inga, he would yield her Majesty 

 by composition, so many hundred thousand pounds yearely, as 

 should both defend all enemies abroad and defray all expenses 

 at home, and that he woulde besides pay a garrison of 3000 

 or 4000 soldiers very royally to defend him against other 

 nations. The Inca will be brought to tribute with great glad- 

 nes." A restoration project, which promised to be highly 

 satisfactory to both parties, but, unfortunately for the success 

 of the scheme, the dynasty which was to be restored and which 

 was to pay for the restoration was wanting. 



(18) p. 418 " The adventurous expedition of Vasco Nunez 

 de Balboa:' 



I have, in another work, mentioned the fact that Columbus, 

 long before his death, full ten years prior to Balboa's expedi- 

 tion, was aware of the existence of the South Sea, and its near 

 proximity to the eastern coast of Veragua.* Columbus was led 

 to the knowledge of this fact, not by theoretical speculations on 

 the configuration of Eastern Asia, but by positive and local in- 

 formation obtained from the inhabitants themselves, information 

 which he collected on his fourth voyage (llth May, 1502, to 

 the 7th November, 1504). This fourth voyage led the Admiral 

 from the coast of Honduras to the Puerto de Mosquitos, and 

 even as far as the western extremity of the Isthmus of Panama. 

 The natives reported (and Columbus commented on their re- 

 ports in the Cartararissimaofthe 7th of July, 1503), "that not 

 far from the Rio de Belen, the other sea (the South Sea), turns 



* Relation hist., t. iii. pp. 703, 705, 713. 



+ Raleigh., The Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire 

 of Guiana, performed in 1595. Edition published by Sir Robert 

 Schomburgk, 1848, pp. 119 and 137. 



J Examen critique de Vhistoire de la Geographic du Nouveau 

 Continent et des prog res de I'Astronomie nautique aux 15me et IQme 



