[8] Named _Atavillos_ By Garcilasso De La Vega.

- E.

[9] The arrangement of Zarate is extremely faulty and confused, as he here recounts circumstances which preceeded the return of Almagro to Cuzco. We are here giving a translation of a original document; not endeavouring to write a history of the Conquest of Peru, and have not therefore authority to alter the arrangement of our author. - E.

[10] Garcilasso names the Peruvian general Titu Yupanqui. The remainder of the sentence, respecting the brother of the Inca and Gaete, is quite unintelligible. I suspect it has been misunderstood by the French translator and ought to stand thus: "The commander of these Peruvians was Titu Yupanqui, a brother of the Inca, and the same person who had driven Gaete and others to take refuge in Lima." - E.

[11] Abancay is a town on one of the branches of the Apurimac about 60 miles west from Cuzco. - E.

[12] We learn from the History of America, II. 331, that this bloodless victory over Alvarado took place on the 12th July 1537. Garcilasso calls it the battle of the river Amancay, and names Alvarado Alonso. - E.

[13] Nasca is about 240 miles S.S.E. from Lima, or about sixty Spanish leagues. - E.

[14] Zarate forgets that only a few lines before, he had mentioned that Almagro carried these officers along with his army: - E.

[15] Mala, or San Pedro de Mala, is a town and sea-port on a river of the same name, about 50 miles south from Lima.

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