Gold.........Cori Snow..........Riti Gold dust....Chichi cori A Son.........Churi Great........Hatun A Stone.......Rumi A Hatchet....Avri, champi The Sun.......Inti The Hair.....Caspa Water.........Unu, yaco The Hand.....Maqui Woman.........Huami The Head.....Uma Yes...........Y

  Specimen of Peruvian poetry.

Caylla Llapi To the Song Pununqui I will Sleep, Chaupitua At Midnight Samusac I will come.

  [A] Not good.

  [B] Great Lake.

  [C] Mother Lake.

  [D] Huampu likewise signifies a canoe, and probably a ship might be named
      Atun huampu, a great canoe.—­E.

[1] In a note of the French edition of 1742, it is said that, in the folio
    edition of Zarate printed at Seville in 1677, Luque was called the
    father of Almagro, and that no mention is made of that ecclesiastic
    having taken any part in the expedition.  Robertson, in his History of
    America, II. 273, says that Pizarro was the natural son of a gentleman
    of honourable family by a low woman, and that his education was so
    entirely neglected that he could neither read nor write.  He adds that,
    after serving some years in Italy, he embarked for America, where he
    greatly distinguished himself.  In our last chapter, Diaz makes
    frequent mention of Pizarro as serving with reputation under Cortes,
    in the early part of the expedition to Mexico; but gives no account of
    his quitting the service of Cortes; to whom he was probably somehow
    related, as the mother of Cortes was named Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. 
    Almagro, according to Robertson, was a foundling, and bred like
    Pizarro in the army.  Luque acted as priest and schoolmaster at Panama,
    and had amassed considerable riches.—­E.

[2] Named Pedrarias by Robertson.—­E.

[3] Chinchama, by the map in Zarate is that part of the western coast of
    Tierra Firma or Darien, opposite the Isla del Rey.  The poor province
    of Peru, beyond or to the southwards of Cinchama, is that now called
    Biruquete; and the Pueblo quemada, or Burnt People, must be looked for
    in the province of Novita, perhaps Nounamas, immediately to the south
    of which is the river of St Juan.—­E.

[4] Tacamez, otherwise called the district of Esmeraldas, or of emeralds,
    is in the kingdom of Quito near the equinoctial line.—­E.

[5] Instead of twelve, the text only names eight of the brave
    associates of Pizarro.—­E.

[6] Morope, in lat. 6 deg. 35’, in the district of Sana, is in the situation
    of the place mentioned in the text.—­E.

[7] This river, otherwise called Amatape, runs into the bay of Payta, in
    lat. 5 deg. 10’ south.—­E.