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And in like fort all the new kingcjome oGrwaJff y that 

 of Gutti-maSa , the Ilandes , all Fl&rida, BreJiS, Lufi 

 and other countries of great circuite : but that in fomc 

 places, they are yet more barbarous, fcarcely acknow 

 ledging any head, butallcommaundand governein 

 common, having no other thing, but wii, violence,in- 

 duftry and diforder, fo as he that moft may, moft com- 

 maunds. \At the Eaft Indies there are great kingdomes, 

 well ordered and governed, as that &fSf4* s Bt/#Xg4,tnd 

 others, which may bring to field when they pleafe, a 

 hundred or two hundred thoufand men. 



Aslikewife theKingdomeofC^*, the which in 

 greatnesand power,furpa(Teth all the reft, whofe kings, 

 (as they .report J have continued above two thoufand 

 yeares, bymcanes of their good order and govern 

 ment. But at the Weft Indies, they have onely found 

 twoKingdomes orfetled Empires, that ofthe3/m- 

 tMnes in new Sftttft&tyd ofthelngtttis in Peru. It is not 

 eafictobefaid, which of the two was thcmightieft 

 Kingdome, for that A/(?/tp/^exceeded them of Per* > 

 in buildings, and in the greatnes of his court : but the 

 IngUiUy did like wife exceedc thcMexicawesjn treafure, 

 riches,and greatnes of Provinces. In regardc ofanti- 

 quitie, the Monarchic of the/tfj/^, haththcadvan^ 

 tage,alchough it be notmuch 3 and in my opinion,they 

 havebccneequall infeacesof aitncsand vidories. It 

 is aioft certaine 3 that thcfe two Kingdomcs have much 

 exceeded all the IndianProvinces , difcovered in this 

 new world, as well in good orcJer and government, as 

 in power and wealth, and much more in fuperftition 

 andfervicc of their idolls,having many things like one 

 to an other. But in one thing they differed much, for 

 among the 3/rAr/V^^thefucceflion of thekingdome, 



was 



