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iflued of that race, and that from him fprang two fami 

 lies or linages , the one of Havan Cufio , the other of 

 yrniCufco. They fay moreover , that when the Kings 

 /#//<# attempted warreand conquered fundrie Pro 

 vinces , they gave a colour and made a pretext of their 

 cnterprife, faying, that all the world ought to acknow 

 ledge them for that all the world wasrenuedby their 

 raceand Countrie : and alfo that the nue religion had 

 been revelled to them from heaven. But what availeth 

 it to fpeake more; feeing that all is full of lies and vani- 

 tie, and farre from reafon? Some learned men write, 

 that all which the Indians make mention of , is not a- 

 bove 4co.yeeres old ; and whatfc ever they fpeake of for. 

 merageS;, is but a confufion full ofobfcuritie, wherein 

 we find no truth . The which may not feeme ftrange, 

 they having no vfe ofbookes, or writing; in fteede 

 whereof, they vfc counting with thdz^jjrif0caf6yes 9 

 the which is peculiarvnto them. By which reckon ing 

 all they can report is not paft^oo. yceres . InftrudHng 

 niy felfe carefully of them , to know from what land, 

 and what nation they pafled , to that where they now 

 live, I havefound them fo farre vnable to give-any rea- 

 (bn thereof,as they beleeve confidently, that they were 

 created at their firft beginning at this new world,where 

 they now dwell . But we have freed them of this error 

 by our faith, which teachcth vs,thatallmen came from 

 the firft man. There are great and apparant coniedures, 

 that thefe men for along time, had neither Kings nor 

 'common weales,but lived in troupes, as they do at this 

 day in Florida^ the Cbiriqu<itt?aj,thok ofBrefi/^ and ma 

 ny other nations, which have no cei taine Kings, but as 

 occafion is offered in peace or warre, they choofe their 

 Captaines as they pleafe , But Ibme men excelling 



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