i6g A VOYAGE TO Book VII. 



Yncas, was never conquered bf them having, when 

 Vira Cocha the eighth Ynca had made himfelf fove- 

 reign in Charcas, fent a deputation of their chiefs, 

 with a requeft of being admitted among the number 

 of his fubjedls, and that he would be pleafed to fend 

 them governors, that their country might partake of 

 the benefits of thofe wife laws, and ufeful improve- 

 ments he had introduced into all the parts of his 

 empire. 



The Spaniards having penetrated into Peru, and 

 finiHied the conqueft of far the greateft part of that 

 empire, proceeded to that of Tucuman in 1549, undef 

 the condu(5l of Juan Nunez de Prado, whom the pre- 

 fident Pedro de la Gafca intruded with the condud 

 of this expedition. He had, indeed, no opportunity 

 of difplaying his military talents for the inhabitants 

 being of a mild and eafy difpolition, readily fubmitted ; 

 on which the following four cities were built in that 

 country, namely, Santiago del Eftero, fo called from 

 a river of the fame name on which it is built, and 

 whofe inundations greatly contribute to increafe the 

 fertility of the foil ; it ftands above a hundred and 

 fixty leagues S. of Plata: San Miguel del Tucuman, 

 twenty five or thirty leagues W. of the former ; Nue- 

 Ura Sennora de Talavera, fomething more than forty 

 leagues N. W. of Santiago. The fourth was called 

 Cordova de la Nueva Andalucia, and is above eighty 

 leagues S. of Antiago. 



The territories of this government being of fuch 

 extent that they reach from N. to S. above two 

 hundred leagues, and little fhort of a hundred in fome 

 parts from E. to W. it was judged proper to increafe 

 the number of Spanifti fettlements ; and accordingly 

 orders were given for building two other cities, which 

 are Rioja, about eighty leagues S. W. of Santiago, and 

 Santa, between fixty and feventy leagues N. W. of 

 the fame city ^ together with a village called San Sal- 

 vador, or Xuxuij about tv/enty leagues N. of Salta. 



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