318 PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA. 



(Relation hist. T. iii. p. 703-705 and 713). Raleigh 

 thought there was in Peru an old prophecy "that from 

 Inglaterra those Ingas should be againe in time to come 

 restored and deliuered from the seruitude of the said con- 

 querors. I am resolued that if there were but a srnal army 

 afoote in Guiana marching towards Manoa, the chiefe citie 

 of Inga, he would yield Her Majestic by composition so 

 many hundred thousand pounds yearely, as should both 

 defend all enemies abroad and defray all expences at home, 

 and that he woulde besides pay a garrison of 3000 or 4000 

 soldiers very royally to defend him against other nations. 

 The Inca wil be brought to tribute with great gladnes." 

 (Raleigh, " The Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful 

 Empire of Guiana, performed in 1595," according to the 

 edition published by Sir Robert Schomburgk, 1848, p. 119 

 and 137.) This scheme of a Restoration promised much 

 that might be very agreeable to both sides, but unfortunately 

 the dynasty who were to be restored, and who were to pay 

 the money, were wanting ! 



( 18 ) p. 299. " Of the expedition of Vasco Nunez de 

 Balboa." 



I have already remarked elsewhere (Examen critique de 

 Thistoire de la Geographic du Nouveau Continent, et des 

 progres de 1' Astronomic nautique aux 15 erne et 16 erne 

 siecles, T. i. p. 349) that Columbus knew fully ten years 

 before Balboa's expedition the existence of the South Sea 

 and its great proximity to the east coast of Veragua. He 

 was conducted to this knowledge not by theoretical specula- 



