the South-Sea. 20 1 



.thn. The French Ships that have had leave to trade to 

 Callao^ have been obliged to put into it all they had aboard. 

 They exaft upon the felling Price 13 per Cent, of fuch as 

 come with their whole Lading, and fometimes even i6 5 

 of thofe who have already fold much in other Ports along 

 the Coafi:, and three in the Thoufand for other Royal 

 Duties and Confullhip, without reckoning the Prefects 

 that are to be privately mad^ to the Viceroy and the King's 

 Officers, who will not tranfgrefs the Laws of the King- 

 dom for nothing, in a Place where they have the Power 

 in their own Hands. It is not to be wonder'd that the 

 hungry Officers fliould be corrupted, they buying their 

 Places only to enrich themfelves, and confequently are 

 little concern'd for the Publick Good, provided they find 

 their own Account therein. It is true, there feems to be FnnchTMz: 

 fome Reafon for permitting the French to trade, du* 

 ring thefe late Wars, confidering the Scarcity of Mer- 

 chandizes there was in the Country, by reafon of the Stop- 

 page of the Trade of the Galeons ; but it muft alfo be 

 own'd, that the Spaniards have permitted it without any 

 Difcretion, with fo much Eafe, that it has been prejudicial 

 to both; becaufe the French referring thither without 

 Meafure, have carry'd many more Goods than the Coun- 

 try could ufe; that Plenty has obliged them to fell the 

 faid Goods at very low Rates, and has ruin'd the Spanijh 

 Merchants, and confequently the French for feveral Years. 

 Three Ships, with each of them Goods to the Value of 

 a Million of Pieces of Eight, would have been fuificient for 

 Peru yearly ; for Chili cannot take off for above the Value 

 of 400000 Pieces of Eight; the Merchants would have 

 bought to a more certain Profit, and one French Ship would 

 have made more Profit than three or four : But enough of 

 this Reflexion, which can be of no Advantage. 



Befides the publick Stru£fcures already mentioned, there C y n y r 

 are none of Note, except the Churches, which, confidering Monafme^, 

 they are built with Canes interwoven, and coverM with and InkM- 

 Clay or Timber painted white, are neverthelefs very neat. 



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