The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2

WORKS ISSUED BY The Hakluyt Society. ———— THE SECOND PART OF THE CHRONICLE OF PERU. No. LXVIII.


BY PEDRO DE CIEZA DE LEON. TRANSLATED AND EDITED, With Notes and an Introduction, BY CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. MDCCCLXXXIII. LONDON: WHITING AND COMPANY, LIMITED, SARDINIA STREET, LINCOLN’S-INN-FIELDS.


And to his gallant companions in arms, now heroically defending their native country against fearful odds, I dedicate this edition of the narrative of that scholarly soldier, Pedro de Cieza de Leon, who warmly sympathised with the people of the land of the Yncas, advocated their cause, and denounced their wrongs.
It is among the descendants of these Huancas that the Chilians are now committing havoc. With the Peruvians, with the men who are fighting in the noblest of all causes—the defence of their Fatherland—with General Caceres and his companions in arms, must be the hearty sympathies and best wishes of all who hate wrong and love patriotic devotion. Through that devotion, through the sacrifices and self-denials entailed upon the unfortunate people of the land of the Yncas, may be seen those rays of light which break the black cloud now hanging over the country and the race described by Cieza de Leon in the following pages.
May his narrative excite the interest of many readers, and so enlist sympathy for the descendants of that people whose story he tells so well.
June 1883.
THE present volume, which has been selected for issue by the Hakluyt Society, contains the Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru , by Pedro de Cieza de Leon. The First Part formed one of the Society’s volumes for 1864, having been translated from the Antwerp edition of 1554.