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Chap- IV, A M E T^I C Ai ^6 9 



The Peruvians relate from the teftimony of the Quipos, much mor£ concerning The . 

 thcfe High-Ways, and other Buildings on them, made by GuainacaVa. Thcfc Quipos ** iuJ!* 

 are Rowls of divers colour'd Strings/ full of all manner of Knots, which ferve in 

 ftead of Characters to keep their Chronicles; in which were employed the Quipo* 

 Camayos, who being in the nature of our Secretaries, Regiftred all Tranfa&ions, 

 performing the fame with the feverai Strings and Buttons, with which they 

 gave Obligations, Difcharges, and the like : but befides the Quipos they alfo us'd 

 Rings full of little Stones for the fame purpofe ♦ and knew with Ki/^Seed how to 

 caftup an Account as well as the beft Arithmetician with Figures. 



Their Account of Time hung on the twelve Pillars Succanga, ere&ed on a Moun- 

 tain beyond Cufco by the Ingxpachacuma, that is, The Regulator of the Year, to fliew 

 the Courfe of the Sun, and according to that their appointed Feaft-days, times of 

 Sowing and Harveft : Their Year begins in 'December. 



The Spatiifl? Government in the Kingdom of Tern is fetled at prefent in great 7hc P refInfc 

 tranquility and fplendor. The Vice.Roy, who keeps a fplendid Court in Lima, " n j c V he 

 otherwife call'd Los fyyos, Commands over Chili and Terra Firma, and never comes vemmcnt. 

 abroad without a Guard of forty Halberdeers : when he travels by l!and he is ac- 

 companied by the Arch-bifhop, and guarded by his forty Halberdeers, a hundred 

 Pike-men, and fifty Mufquetteers. His Reign is generally not above fix or eight 

 years, during which time he receives forty thoufand Ducats per Annum out of the 

 King's Exchequer. 



The City Los <%eyos hath been of late years very much enlarged and brought to a £yg** 

 moft flourishing Condition, being exceeding populous , and extending four £^£%jj 

 Miles in length, and half as much in breadth : In the biggeft Market-place is the ***• 

 City Hall and the Exchange, where all things are brought to be fold. Of the other 

 three Markets, two have their Denominations from St. Anne and St. Jacob ; the 

 fourth is call'd El Santo delos CaVallos, becaufc nothing but Mules, AiTes, and Horfes 

 are fold there. The chief Church is Confecrated to St. John the Evangelift; the 

 other Three to Marcellus, Sebaflian, and Anna. The Francifcans inhabit three Cloy- 

 fters ; the Dominicans , Augujltnes, and Monks De la Merced, each of them two, befides 

 two coftly Stru&ures for the Jefuits. Other Orders have alfo five Cloyfters here, 

 Vi^ the Creation, Conception, the Holy Trinity, St. Jofeph, and St. Clara ; tke three firft 

 have each of them a Church built hard by the feverai Cloyfters, Dedicated to the 

 Santas Virgmes del Montferratto, Del Prado, and Ve Loretto. Each Cloyfter contains 

 above two hundred and fifty either Monks or Nuns. Here are alfo four large Hof- 

 pitals, the chiefeft whereof call'd Jndrias, hath feldom lefs than four hundred Sick, 

 which are kept and cur'd on Charity. The fecond is for Peruvians onely., call'd T7;e 

 Ho/pital of St. Anna. The third, built in honor of the Apoftle St. Peter, is for poor 

 old Clergy-men. The fourth, nam'd TheHoufe cfLoye, is for fick Women. Befides 

 thefe there ftands another Stru&ure near the Walls of the City, Confecrated to La* 

 %arus, where thofe that have the Leprofie are cur'd. The Houfe call'd The Holy 

 Ghofl, receives all fick and wounded Sea-men. The King maintains twenty four 

 Students at his own Charge in the Royal Colledge, and the Arch-bifhop as many 

 in the Colledge call'd St. Toronim ; but in the Colledge of St. Martin refide above 

 fix hundred, which are brought up in all manner of Arts and Sciences. Two hun- 

 dred Students are alfo taught in the high School, where they chufe a new Gover- 

 nor every year. Here alfo is kept the King's Treafure, and the Court of Inquifi- 

 tion. The River which wafhes the City Walls runs fo exceeding fwift, that not 

 long fince it carried away a new Stone Bridge with nine great Arches. 



The Dominican Monks were the firft that Landed on Peru, the firft which came 



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