Chap. IV. 



AMERICA. 



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Receiver. The Natives about this Place are a ftupid and barbarous People, which 

 before the Spaniards coming thithcr,would for a fmall trifle kill one another. 



16. The City TCaen, fituate in the- countrey Chuiquimayo - it is fo call'd from a 

 fwift River, crofs which the Peruvian Women and Children fwim, to the great 

 amazement of the Spaniards. They paint their Bodies black with the Juice of the 

 Root7*gfMf, and feed forthemoft part on the ftamp'd Plant laca. On the other 

 fide of the Mountain, which rifes on the Banks of Qbuquimayo, lies the Countrey Te- 

 rico, fruitful and well inhabited, againft which juts the Golden Countrey Cherinos. 

 fern hath alfo feveral delightful Valleys, amongft which on the North the chiefeft 

 are the Tumbe^ Solana, Poechos, zndPiura, all of them very fertile, full of ftately 

 Buildings, and water'dby feveral Rivers. 



17. San Utguel, the firft City that was built by the Spaniards in fern, fituate in a 

 fandy and dry Soyl, being extraordinary dufty in Summer, and very flabby in the 

 Winter, becaufe the hard Ground cannot foak up the Rain. The Ingot made a 

 Way through this Valley fifteen Foot broad, between two Walls, and Planted 

 Trees on each fide. 



1 8. Weftward from Miguel appears Payta, near a convenient Haven in the South- 

 Sea, which Anno 1547. was burnt by Thomas Candijh 5 fince which it had been re- 

 built twenty eight years, when Joris Spilbergen, after a hard Engagement with the s £^^ r 

 Spanip? Admiral %odrigo Mendo^a, arriving in the large Haven before Payta, fent eight onf ^' 

 Sail with three hundred Armed Men up to the City, where finding the Enemy 

 Encamp'd along the Shore, he returned without any erTeft ; but two of his Frigats, 



the Eolus and the Morning-Star, running clofe to Payta, fir'd whole Broad-fides at the 

 fame, whileft Captain Ve Wit took a Permian Fiftier.man, wfco had been two 

 Moneths out at Sea, and taken abundance of Fifli. The Guns which the Ships 

 fir'd upon the Town ftruck fuch a terror into the Citizens, that they fled with Bag 

 and Baggage into the Mountains, and left the City for a Prize to Spilbergen, who 

 fetting fire on the fame, in few hours burnt down two Churches, a Dominican Cloy- 

 fter, and feveral Alms-houfes : But had not the Citizens been cowardly, they might 



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