Ondegardo's manuscripts, it should be remarked, do not bear his signa-
ture. But they contain allusions to several actions of the writer's life,
which identify them, beyond any reasonable doubt, as his production. In
the archives of Simancas is a duplicate copy of the first memorial, Relacion
Primera^ though, like the one in the Escorial, without its author's name.
Mufioz assigns it to the pen of Gabriel de Rojas, a distinguished cavalier
ol the Conquest. This is clearly an error ; for the author of the manuscript
identifies himself with Ondegardo, by declaring, in his reply to the fifth
interrogatory, that he was the person who discovered the mummies of the



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llictt in Cmco <p set expresujr refcrrcdy botii by Acoste snd GsicOtsn^
to the Licentiate Polo de Ond^^ardo, when oorregidor of diat dtfb
Should the savants <3i Madrid hereafter embrace among the poblicationt
of valnable manuscripts these Relaciones^ they shonM be carefol not to
be led into an error here bj the anthoritjr of a critic Hbe Mnfioi^ whotC
criticism is rarely at lanlt



I500K 11.
DISCOVERY OF PERU.
CHAPTER I.
iUicient and Modern Science.— Art of Navigation. — Maritime Discovery.
— Spirit of the Spaniards. — Possessions in the New World. — Rumors
Concerning Peru.
