The 3\(jiturallandMoratl 



abufes and wickednes are dtfcovercd more at large and 

 particularly in the confeflions made by the Prelates of 

 >Peru. 



There is a kinde of forcerers amongft the Indians 

 allowed by the Kings Inguas , which are as it were 

 footh-faiers, they take vpon them what forme and fi 

 gure they pleafe,flying farre through the aire in a fhort 

 time,beholding all that was done. They talke with the 

 Divell , who anfvvereth them in certaine ftones or o- 

 ther things which they reverence much. They ferve as 

 coniurers, to tell what hath paflcd in the fartheft partes, 

 before any newes can come. As it hath chanced fince 

 the Spaniardes arrived there,that in the diftanceof two 

 or three hundred leagues , they haveknowne the mu 

 tinies, battailes 3 rebellions,and deaths,both of tyrants, 

 and of thofc of the Kings partie , and of private men, 

 the which have beene knowne the fame day they 

 chanced , or the day after , a thing impoffible by the 

 courfe of nature. To worke this divination, theyfhut 

 themfelves into a houfe,& became drunk vntil they loft 

 their fences, a day after they an fvvered to that which 

 was demanded. Some affirme they vfe certaine vndi- 

 onsThe Indians lay,that the old women do common, 

 ly vfe this office of witch-craft, & fpecially thofe of one 

 Province, which they call QM/Y/<?,and of another towne 

 called Manchey , and of the Province of Guarochiri. 

 They likewife (hew what is become of things ftolne 

 and loft. There are of thcfe kindes of Sorcerers in all 

 partes, to whom commonly doe come the AnAConas, 

 and Cyva, which ferve the Spaniardes , and when they 

 have loft any thing of their maftcrs , or when they de- 

 fire to know the fiiccefle of things paft or to come , as 

 when they goc to the Spaniardes attics for their pri 

 vate 



