i6 A VOYAGE TO Book VlL 



cordingly they purfue themfelves the fliorteft road, 

 and perform the remainder of the journey with re-* 

 markable chearfulnefs and difpatch. 



On the 26th we left Morrope, and arrived at 

 Lambayeque, four leagues from it: and being ob- 

 liged to continue t^ere all the 27th, we obferved its 

 latitude, and found it 6° 41' 37'' S, This place 

 confifts of about 1 500 houfes, built fomc of bricks, 

 others of bajareques, the middle of the walls being of 

 cane, and plaiftered over, both on the infide and out- 

 fide with clay: the meanefl: confifts entirely of cane, 

 snd are the habitations of the Indians. The number 

 of inhabitants amount to about 3000, and among 

 them, fome confiderable and opulent families ; but the 

 generality are poor Spaniards, Mulattoes, Meftizos, 

 and Indians. The parifti church is built of ftone, 

 large and beautiful, and the ornaments fplendid. It 

 has four chapels called Ramos, with an equal number 

 of prieils, who take care of the fpirituai concerns of 

 the Indians, and alfo attend, by turns, on the other 

 inhabitants. 



The reafon why this town is fo populous is, that 

 the families which formerly inhabited the city of 

 Sana, on its being facked in 1685, by Edward Davis, 

 an Engiiili adventurer, removed hither; being under 

 a farther neceffity of changing their dwelling from a 

 fudden inundation of the river of the fame name, by 

 which every thing that had efcaped the ravages of the 

 Englilli, was deftroyed. It is the refidence of a Cor- 

 regidor, having under his jurifdidipn, befides many 

 other towns, that of Morrope. One of the two 

 officers of the revenue appointed for Truxillo, refides 

 here. A river called Lambayeque, wafties this 

 place; which, when the waters are high, as they 

 were when we arrived here, is croffed over a wooden 

 bridge but at other times may be forded, and often 

 is quite dry. 



The neighbourhood of Lambayeque, as far as the 



induftry 



