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INDEX. 



duated at Salamanca. In 1570, 

 Philip II sent him to Mexico, with 

 the cosmographer Francisco Do- 

 minguez, to write the natural his 

 tory of that Viceroyalty. He re 

 turned in 1576, but died before he 

 could publish the results of his 

 labours. He prepared sixteen MS. 

 folio volumes, six describing the 

 plants, animals, and minerals of New 

 Spain, and ten of drawings. Fran- 

 cisci Hernandez rerum medicarum 

 Novce HispanicB Thesaurus sen 

 plantarum, animalium, mineralium, 

 Mexicanorum Historia, torn i, 1648 ; 

 ii, 1651, folio. He also translated 

 Pliny s Natural History. (See An 

 tonio, Bib. Script. Hisp., i, p. 432 



Holguin, Dr. Gonzalo, his Quichua 

 grammar, v 



Ladrillero, Captain, his account of a 

 voyage through the Straits of Ma 

 gellan, 137 



Lancero, a soldier of Peru, cures 

 wrought by, 525 



Loaysa, Dr. Don Geronimo de, first 

 Archbishop of Lima, 425 ; letter 

 from Polo de Ondegardo on the rites 

 of the Peruvians, 356. Loaysa was 

 native of Truxillo in Estreniadura, 

 a Dominican, made Bishop of Car- 

 thagena in 1537. In 1543 he was 

 translated to Lima, which was made 

 an Archbishopric in 1548. He 

 died at Lima in 1575, and was 

 buried in the hospital of Santa 

 Ana, which he had founded. 



Magellan, Fernando, his discovery of 

 the Strait, 136 



Maudana, Alvaro de, discovered the 

 Solomon Islands in 1568, 46, 115 



Matienza, Judge, iv 



Melendez, the Adelantado Pedro, 

 affirmed that there was a passage 

 north of Florida, 140 ; on whale 

 fishing, 150 ; or Menendez ? Pe 

 dro Menendez was a native of 

 Aviles near Oviedo, of a very anoient 

 Asturian family. He was a daring 

 sea captain. In 1565 Philip II sent 

 him with a fleet to conquer Florida. 

 He returned, and died at Santander 

 in 1574. His nephew Pedro, Mar 

 quis of Aviles, went out to Florida 

 with his uncle the Adelantado. He 

 was killed by the Indians. Menen 

 dez wrote a report on his examina 

 tion of the east coast of Florida. 



Mendoza, Garcia de, Governor of Chile, 

 sent a ship to explore towards the 



Strait of Magellan, 137. Garcia Hur- 

 tado de Mendoza, son of the Marquis of 

 Canete, was a young man of twenty- 

 two when he came to govern Chile 

 in 1577, sent by his father the Vice 

 roy of Peru. He made a successful 

 war on the Araucanians, and ex 

 plored the archipelago of Chiloe. 

 He founded Mendoza on the east 

 side of the Andes, and rebuilt An- 

 gol and other towns previously aban 

 doned. In 1561 he was superseded 

 and returned to Spain. He came out 

 as Viceroy of Peru in 1590 until 

 1599. His life by Christoval Snares 

 de Figueron was published in 1613. 

 (See Hawkins s Voyages, xxviii, 255, 

 n, 338, 340. Hakluyt Society s vo 

 lume for 1878.) 



Mogrovejo, Dr. Toribio, Archbishop 

 of Lima, vi ; lives of, viii, n. 



Monardes, Dr., on whale fishery, 150; 

 on liquid amber, 259 ; on tobacco, 

 261 



Narvaez, Pamphilo, landing in Mexico, 

 520 



Pizarro, Francisco, conqueror of Peru, 

 treasure seized by, 325, 432, 435, 

 529 



Pizarro, Gonzalo, 429 



Polo de Ondegardo, iv, v, 304, 313, 

 314, 356, 369, 391, 425, 432, 434, 

 525, the licentiate, was born at 

 Salamanca, and in 1545 he was in 

 Peru, with the fame of a very 

 learned and prudent man. He was 

 a friend of Gonzalo Pizarro, yet 

 Gasca made him corregiclor of 

 Potosi. Afterwards he was corre- 

 gidor of Cuzco, when he discovered 

 several mummies of the Yncas, 

 which were sent to Lima. He was 

 the adviser of the Viceroy Toledo, 

 and died at Potosi in about 1575, 

 very old and rich. His widow mar 

 ried Don Alonzo de Loaysa, a citizen 

 of Potosi, and survived until 1603. 

 His valuable Relaciones are ad 

 dressed to the Viceroys Marques de 

 Canete and Conde de Nieva, 1561- 

 71. They show him to have been 

 a humane and good man. They 

 are in MS. in the Escurial. Another 

 MS. of Ondegardo is in the Royal 

 Library at Madrid. It is printed in 

 the Hakluyt Society s volume for 

 1872, p. 151. (See also Prescott s 

 Conquest of Peru, i, p. 163.) 



Roa, Juan de, an Austin friar, and 

 zealous preacher, 531 



