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Queen " the transports of those barbarous na- 

 tions at the sight of her picture ;" he would have 

 " the name of the august virgin, who knows 

 how to conquer empires, reach as far as the 

 country of the warlike women of the Oroonoko 

 and the Amazon;" he asserts, that, "at the 

 period when the Spaniards overthrew the throne 

 of Cuzco, an ancient prophecy was found, which 

 predicted, that the dynasty of the Incas would 

 one day owe it's restoration to Great Britain ;" 

 he advises, that, " on pretext of defending the 

 territory against external enemies, garrisons of 

 three or four thousand English should be placed 

 in the towns of the Inca, obliging this prince to 

 pay a contribution annually to Queen Elizabeth 

 of three hundred thousand pounds sterling;" 

 finally, he adds, like a man who foresees the 

 future, that " all the vast countries of South 

 America will one day belong to the English na- 

 tion.*" 



* " I shewed them her majesties picture which the Casi- 

 gui so admired and honoured, as it had been easy to have 

 brought them idolatrous thereof. — And I further remember 

 that Bcrreo confessed to me and others (which I protest be- 

 fore the Majesty of God to be true), that there was found 

 among prophecies in Peru (at such time as the Empire w as 

 reduced to the Spanish obedience) in their chiefest temples, 

 amongst divers others which foreshewed the losse of the said 

 Empyre, that from Inglatierra those Ingas should be again in 

 time to come restored. — The Inga would yield to her Majesty 

 by composition many hundred thousand pounds yearely as to 



