Htftorie of the Indies lib./. 585 



five . If they will impute the caufc to the riches of the 

 countric: I will not altogether denieit.Yet were it impo/I 

 fible to have fo great wealth, and to bee able to preierve it 

 if there had not beene a Monarchic. This is alfba worke 

 of God in this age, when as the Preachers ofthegofpcll 

 are fb-colde and without zeale, and Merchants with 

 the heat of covetoufnes and defire of commaund , fearch 

 and difcouer newe people whether wee pafle with our 

 comniodities,for as Saint Auftin faith, the Prophcfie of^, 

 Efiie is fulfilled,in that the Church of Chrift is extended, J* * 

 not onely to the right hand,but alfo to the left: which is, s *' 

 (as he declareth,)by humaine and earthly meancs, which - 

 they fecke more commonly then lefus Chrift. It was alfo 

 a great providence of our Lord, that whcnas the firft Spa- 

 niardes arrived there, thcyfounde ayde from the /*& 

 them felves ,. by reafoa of their partialities, and greatc 

 diuifions* 



ThisiswellknowneinPtfw, that the divifion betwixt 

 the two brothers Atahulpa, and Gttafea, the great King J 

 G/tanacapa their father being newly dead, gave entry to 

 the MarcjuifcDw Funds Pi&am , and to the Spaniards, 

 for that either of them defired his alliance being bufied in 

 warre one againft the other . The- like experience hath 

 beene in New Spainc,- that the aide ofthofe of the pro 

 vince ofTlafeaUa, by reafon of their continual! hatred 

 againftthe Mexicaines, gave the vidory andfiegniory 

 of Mexico , t^ the Marquile Fernando Cones and his men, 

 and without them it had beene impoffible to have wonne 

 it, yea, to have maintained themfdves within the coun 

 try. 



They are much deceived that {b little efteemc the In- V : 

 dians, and iudge that (by the advantage tire Spaniards 

 have over them in their perfons, horfes, and armes, both 



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