tt and Moral! 



offencive and deffencive 5 ) they might eafily conquer any 

 land or nation of the Indies. 



C$/7/<?ftandesyet, or to fay better, Arance and Ttteca- 

 pelj which are two citties 3 where our Spaniards could not 

 yetwinnc one foote of ground,although they have made 

 warre there above five and twenty yeares, without fpa- 

 ringofany coft. For this barbarous nation, having once 

 loft the apprchcntion of horfe and fhottc , and knowing 

 that the Spaniards fall as well as other men , with the 

 blowofaftoneor of a dart, they hazard themfelves def- 

 perately, entring the pikes vppon any enterprife. How 

 many yeares have they levied men in New Spaine,.to 

 fend againft the Chjcbymequos, which are a final! number 

 of naked Indians, armed onely with bowes and arrowes: 

 yet to this day they could not bee vanquished, butcon- 

 trariwife,from day to day they grow more defperate and 

 refolute. ButwhatfliallweefeyofthcCAwar, of the Chi- 

 rAgtiAnaSy of the Pifiocones, and all the other people of the 

 Andes' Hath not all the flower of Peru beene there, brin 

 ging with them fo great provifion ofarmes and men as 

 we have feenec' What did they? With what vi&ories re 

 turned they? Surely they returned very happy infaving 

 of their lives,having lofl their baggage and almoft all their 

 horfes. Let no man thinkc (fpeaking of the Indians,) that 

 .they are men of nothing; but if they thinkefo, let them 

 go and make triall. Wee muft then attribute the glory 

 towhomitappertiines, that is, principally to God, and 

 to his admirable difpofition : for if Motcptrna. in Mexip^ 

 and the Ingua in Peru, had bin refolute to refift the Spani 

 ards, and to ftoppe their entrie, Cortes and Pizarrehcid 

 prevailed little in thgir landing , although they were ex 

 cellent Captaines I It hath alfb becne a great hclpe to in 

 duce the Indians to receive the law of Chnft, die fub- 



