BRAVERY OF THE INDIANS. 529 



not onoly to the right hand, but also to the left : which is LrB - 

 (as he declareth) by humaine and earthly meanes, which 

 they secke more commonly than lesus Christ. It was also 

 a great providence of our Lord, that whenas the first 

 Spaniardes arrived there, they founde ayde from the Indians 

 themselves, by reason of their partialities and greato 

 diuisions. 



This is well knowne in Peru, that the division betwixt 

 the two brothers Atahualpa and Huascar, the great King 

 Huayna Ccapac their father being newly dead, gave entry to 

 the Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro, and to the Spaniards, 

 for that either of them desired his alliance, being busied in 

 warro one against the other. The like experience hath 

 becno in New Spaine, that the aide of those of the pro 

 vince of Tlascala, by reason of their continuall hatred 

 against the Mexicaines, gave the victory and siegniory of 

 Mexico to the Marquis Fernando Cortes and his men, and 

 without them it had beene impossible to have wonne it, 

 yea, to have maintained themselves within the country. 



They are much deceived that so little esteeme the In 

 dians, and iudge that (by the advantage the Spaniards 

 have over them in their persons, horses, and armes, both 

 offensive and defensive), they might easily conquer any 

 land or nation of the Indies. 



Chile standes yet, or, to say better, Arauco and Tucapel, 

 which are two cities, where our Spaniards could not yet 

 winno one foote of ground, although they have made warro 

 there above five-aud-twenty yeares, without sparing of any 

 cost. For this barbarous nation, having once lost the 

 apprehention of horse and shotte, and knowing that the 

 Spaniards fall as well as other men, with the blow of a stone 

 or of a dart, they hazard themselves desperately, entring 

 the pikes vppon any enterprise. How many yeares have 

 they levied men in New Spaine, to send against the Chi- 

 chimccos, which are a small number of naked Indians, 



