Z02 A Voyage to 



There are five Monafteries of Religious Men, Vo?ninicanr r 

 francifcans, Augujiins, Mercenarians, and Jefuites ; be- 

 fides the Hofpital of S. John of God. The Number of the 

 Inhabitants does not exceed 400 Families, tho' they reckon 

 600. 



Garrifon. Tho' the King of Spain has fettled a Fund of 292171 

 Pieces of Eight a Year, for maintaining of the Garrifon of 

 Callao 1 there are fcarce Soldiers enow to mount the 

 Guard at the Place of Arms. 

 Governor and The Governor is generally a confiderable European, who 

 Ingimer. is relievM by the Court of Spain every five Years. His Ca- 

 tholick Majefty alfo keeps an Engineer there, who ferves 

 for all the Places in South America ; which are Baldivia, 

 Valparaiso, Callao, Lima, and Truxillo. 



Since the Death of Monfieur Roffemin, the French Engi- 

 neer, the Charge of the Fortifications has been committed 

 to Signior Peralto,. zCreollo, or Mongrel Spaniard of Lima, 

 Aftrologer and Aftronomer of the City,- but tho' the King 

 allows 30000 Pieces of Eight affign'd upon the Excife on 

 Flefli, for repairing the Walls oiCal ao, they let them run- 

 to ruin next the Sea ; fo that they will be obliged to rebuild 

 near one Half of them. 



Without the Walls of Callao there are two Indian Suburbs 

 calPd Pitipiti, and diftinguifh'd by the Names of the Old and 

 New ; the firft of them is on the South, and the other on 

 the North Side, into which runs the River of Rimac, or 

 of Lima. 



Road to Li- ° n £ ' m ^ e * s *' ie ^ oac * ^ iat * eac * s t0 Lima> which is 

 ma. °. n b 7 two Leagues diftant, the Way good and pleafant, a- 



long a fine Plain. At the Mid-way is a Chappel of S, John 

 of God, caird La Legua, or the League: A Quarter of a 

 League beyond it, the Road parts into two Branches, of 

 which that on the Left Hand leads to the Royal Gate of 

 Lima, and the other to that call'd Juan Simon, which an- 

 fwers to the Middle of the City, and is confequently more 

 frequented than the other. 



That 



