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LIB. vii. arme d onely with bowes and arrowes : yet, to this day, they 

 could not bee vanquished, but contrariwise, from day to day 

 they grow more desperate and resolute. But what shall 

 wee say of the Chunchos, of the Chirihuanos, of the Pilco- 

 cones, and all the other people of the Andes ? Hath not 

 all the flower of Peru beene there, bringing with them so 

 great provision of armes and men, as we have seene ? 

 What did they ? With what victories returned they ? 

 Surely they returned very happy in saving of their lives, 

 having lost their baggage and almost all their horses. Let 

 no man thinke (speaking of the Indians), that they are 

 men of nothing ; but if they thinke so, let them go and 

 make triall. Wee must then attribute the glory to whom 

 it appertaines, that is, principally to God, and to his ad 

 mirable providence : for if Montecuma in Mexico, and the 

 Ynca in Peru, had bin resolute to resist the Spaniards, 

 and to stoppe their entrie, Cortes and Pizarro had prevailed 

 little in their landing, although they were excellent Cap- 

 taines. jit hath also beene a great helpe to induce the 

 Indians to receive the law of Christ, the subiection they 

 were in to their Kings and Lords, and also the servitude 

 and slaverie they were helde in by the divell s tyrannies 

 and insupportable yoke. This was an excellent disposition 

 of the Divine Wisedome, the which drawes profite from ill 

 to a good end, and receives his good from another s ill, 

 which it hath not sowen. It is most certaine that no people 

 of the West Indies have been more apt to receive the 

 Gospel then those which were most subiect to their Lords, 

 and which have beene charged with the heaviest burthens, 

 as well of tributes and services, as of customes and bloodie 

 practises. All that which the Mexicane Kings, and those 

 of Peru did possesse, is at this day most planted with 

 Christian religion, and where there is least difficultie in the 

 government and ecclesiasticall discipline. The Indians 

 were so wearied with the heavy and insupportable yoke of 



