INDEX. 



549 



went to Mexico. Thence he re 

 moved to Guaternela, and, after 

 labouring for many years, he re 

 turned to Spain, and died in the 

 monastery of San Pedro at Valla- 

 dolid. 



Cabrera, Amador de, possessor of a 

 rich quicksilver mine at Huauca- 

 velica, which he sold, 216 



Canete, Marquis of, 482, 435 



Carbajal, Outierre/., Bishop of Pla- 

 seucia. A ship of his passed 

 through the Strait of Magellan, 

 137. 



Castro, Lope Garcia de, 215. Go 

 vernor of Peru, under the title of 

 President of the Audience. He 

 succeeded the Viceroy, Conde de 

 Nieva, who wsw assassinated in 1562. 

 In his time the quicksilver mines of 

 Huancavelica were discovered. He 

 colonised the island of Chiloe, 

 founding the town of Castro. In 

 1567 he despatched the expedition, 

 under his young nephew Alvaro de 

 Mendafia, which discovered the So 

 lomon Islands. In 1507 the Jesuits 

 arrived in Peru. Castro was suc 

 ceeded by the Viceroy Toledo in 

 1569. 



Cavendish Thomas, his capture of a j 

 pri/e near California, 141 n. 



Centeno, Diego, a vein of silver ore at 

 Potosi named after him, 199. A 

 man of good family, native of Ciu- 

 dad llodrigo. At the age of twenty 

 he came to Peru with Pedro de 

 Alvarado in 1534. He fought on 

 the side of the Pizarros at the battle 

 of Las Salinas on April 26th, 1538, 

 and under Vaca de Castro at Chu- 

 p:us. He received a rich estate at 

 La Plata (Chuquisacu), in the pro 

 vince of Charcas, where he was 

 Alcalde when the Viceroy Blasco 

 Nunez Vela published tlic new 

 laws. At first he was opposed to 

 them, but he eventually rose against 

 Francisco de Almendras, whom Gon- 

 7.alo Pizarro had appointed his lieu 

 tenant in Chareas. He seized Al 

 mendras, who was a friend and 

 almost a brother to him, and had 

 him beheaded at La Plata. Gon- 

 zulo Pizarro sent Carbajal against 

 Centano, who defeated him several 

 times, and he was obliged to hide in 

 a cave near Arequipa. On the ar 

 rival of Pedro de la Gnsca in Peru 

 Centeno again collected a force, but 



was defeated by Gonzalo Pizarro in 

 the battle of Huariuu. He escaped 

 and joined Gasca at Audahuaylas, 

 being present with him at the battle 

 of Sacsahuana. He had charge of the 

 person of Gonzalo Pi/arro until his 

 execution. Centeno died in 1541). 

 He was a short fair man, with a red 

 beard. 



Columbus Christopher. A nameless 

 pilot said to have given the secret 

 of the discovery of America to, 54. 

 For a full discussion of this story, 

 see my note in the first volume of 

 my translation of the lloyal Com 

 mentaries of (Jarcilasso i/e /a I cya, 

 p. 24. 



Cortez, Hernando, Marques del Valle, 

 conqueror of Mexico, 304, 353, 458, 

 498 ; his arrival on the coast of 

 Mexico, 514 ; march to Mexico, 517, 



518 ; interview with Montezuma, 



519 ; return to Mexico, 523 

 Costillas, Geronimo, lost his txes from 



frost bites in Chile, 138. He was a 

 native of Zamora, of good family. 

 He dissuaded Almagro from ex 

 ecuting Heruando Pizarro, and fled 

 from Gonzalo Pizarro to Arequipa 

 and Lima. He was afterwards ac 

 tively engaged in the campaign 

 against Giron. He had a house at 

 Cuzco. (See (/. de la Vcya, ii, p. 

 243.) 



Drake, Sir Francis, vi ; his passage of 

 Magellan Strait, 137 ; his Portu 

 guese pilots land in New Spain, 140 ; 

 at Guatulco, viii, n. 



Ercilla, Alonzo de, 136; said to have 

 written part of his Araucana on 

 plantain leaves, 244. For his life 

 and writings, tee Ticknor s .s/xzjm/i 

 Literature, ii, p. 426. 



Garces, Henrique, a Portuguese, the 

 discoverer of the quicksilver mine 

 of Huaucavelica, 215 



Gasca, President, 429 



Grimston, Edward, English translator 

 of Acosta, account of, xiv 



Henriquez, Don Martin, Viceroy of 

 Mexico from 1568 to 1580, and of 

 Peru from 1581 to 1583. He was 

 a younger son of the Marquis of 

 Alcauices. (.S ce Hawkins s Voyages, 

 p. 75, 7i.) Acosta conversed with 

 him on the subject of a southern 

 continent, vi, 139, 391, 423 ; his 

 death, vii. 



Hernandez, Dr. Francisco, 201. He 

 was born at Toledo in 1514, and gra- 



