4000003871

Boo.~JX.

Royal

Commentaries.

feen in my Countreyti It is a thing very' remarkable, thatHens did not batch their

Chickens in

Co:tco,

nor yet in the Vallies neighbouring to it, rhough they fed them

with the befl: nourifhment they could contrive to give them ; which defelt they

amibut-ed to che chilnefs ofahe Air. Such as have mentioned chis particular, have

given for a reafon heréoC.tfiat Hens were firangers in that Countrey,_and their

confl:itution and temperarpent.not agr~eable to the Climate; _becaufe in pares more

warm, as

Yucay

and

Muy_na_,_

which ar~_r¡,on above.four Leagues diíl:ant from the

City,the Hens hatch theil- Chickens as lh other places ~but in

Couo

for above thit–

ty years the Eggs proved all addle, and

éontinued in che year

560,

when

de–

parted from tnat City: but fome years afterwards, amongfl: ocher advices, which

-certaio Gemleman calle<il1..0'iirri

Siotnch~ t wr-oté

me,

was,informe.d. ohat' the Hens

. ,:,b,egan t0 rharch Chjekeñs

iri~Co,:,co,

asJ neeJy, at1d plent~fuHy as in other 'places. ,

::; 4

.the_:year J_S"S"6,.a-Gentlem~nNative,of_Sa/ama11:~; cáJl _d

Don.-!:f.'artinde_Guz.man~

w,-11o·h;id ~ ~!rl'eru-c;-,-r_eturomg from

Spam

a fecond 1tune th1tht11,,c.amed Very

6.iJ.

ÍQrFJ\tau~

for-

Hór(es.,

.wlt_h him ;

,amd

ocher curiofüies

amorígút11Mlíiich he had

lictl~

CaP,aty.;bird

a,J;ag~, whichf ahi1

tó

admirationband was.Jhé wonder of

alj,

h0w

fo,littl~ a ct~t\ilr~ríhould be:<Jbl<';

éndúre;thd0..ng,Voyage over tw6

great

Se~,

and che Travels by Land both in

Spain,

and'in

Peru,

from the

Sea.to

Co,:,có•

Thp~

we'

mentio1f fmall.ánd incdnfiderable Birds,'that fo it

inay_

an·ioduce–

rnent ro tranfport Bir~s

and:F.owl

ofgr~_ªf~r ·benefit

aúd,

u(e,

fuch ~s-1 Pamidg~,

ª'-?:~

ocher carne Fowl, wbich tWdireed up;mourYards; ,,md,feedat qu,r Barn-doors.

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Relatioñ-ofBirds

and

Fo; l~;

Wé

are

nej(:ttO

país

to'

Corn,'

Planes, Len~

tils, and fuch other things as were wanting in

Peru·.'

-Apá

as to chis poinc we

rnuí_l: note, that the

_firft

perfon that i¡npoi-te~·vy,

he.at

ign0·my Countr~y -( for fo

call the whole Ernpire of ,the

lncM)

wa~a certam noble La~y, called

Mary

Eféo–

b~r,

who was married·

td'Diego de Chaves;

bothNatives of

Truxillo

wás well ác.:

quainted with her, when I lived at my own

Plantation, blilt many years after fhe

~ame

toPeru,

fhe removed to

Co,:,co;

bue

her'. Husband

did not ftn·ow,_for _hé dy-·

fAÍ

Los

Reye.t.

· · ·

. · .•

, ·.

This 1ªdy, worchy of all good fottune, was -the füll tha'.t-irnported

Wpe?t

-the City of

Rimar

Peru;

for which great benefidhe i;eceived no thankfull·returns

:fi:om

my Countrey,though for a lefs va:luable confideration.theGé.nriles adored

Cé-

res

for a Goddefs': I know not the year ptecifely in which it was brought; but chis

I anrfure, the quántity was·fo fmall, hot,exceeding halfa Buíhel, that they

fov~ed

· ,the Corn three years for

its

increa[e,.dividing it into finall parcels oftfürty ano fór–

ty Granes

a neighbom:; which was gi-ven alfo for fríendíhip fake, thát

every

one might enjoy fomething ·of che new Harveft.

For chis great b,enefit'which rhiswor-thy Womari did to

Peru,

and

fo!'

fhé many

fervices performed by herHusband; who was·one of the firfl: Conquer-oúts, a Plan–

tation of

Indianswas

befrowed upon her in theCicy

de los

Reyei,

.fo

the yéar

547;

Wheaten bread was not as yet eaten in

Coz.ca;

thougp there was fomeWheat found

in the Countrey : And I fpeak it upon this grou'nd, becau[e I do remember, cha.e

when

Don Frayfolano Dwinico,

Bifbop of that City, fled from the Battel of

Harin;,1,

' he quarter(;d in my Father's houfe wich fourteen or fifteen of his Companions, and

my Mother entertained them wich Bread ofMayz

and the

Spani4rds

were then

fo'

famifhed with hunger, that they had not the patience

fiay untill tht Dinner was ·

made ready, but taking whole handfulls of the raw Mayz, devoured rhem as iféhey ·

had been fügred Almonds. Ir is not certainly ~nown who was the

firíl:

thaéimpor–

ted B'arl~y

,it

is probable that fome Granes of it being mixed with cheWheat., rnighc;

grow up with it, for we obferve that they are never purely and enürely feparatecL

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