An Account of the Conquest of Peru

DOCUMENTS AND NARRATIVES CONCERNING THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF LATIN AMERICA
PUBLISHED BY THE CORTES SOCIETY NEW YORK
NUMBER TWO
Edition limited to 250 copies of which ten are on Kelmscott paper
This copy is Number
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND ANNOTATED BY PHILIP AINSWORTH MEANS
THE CORTES SOCIETY NEW YORK 1917
COCKAYNE, BOSTON
Transcriber's Note: Variant spellings of proper names in the main body of the text, as noted in the Preface, have been retained. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant amendments have been listed at the end of the text. A list of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below.

The work of Pedro Sancho is one of the most valuable accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru that we possess. Nor is its value purely historical. The Relación of Sancho gives much interesting ethnological information relative to the Inca dominion at the time of its demolition. Errors Pedro Sancho has in plenty; but the editor has striven to counteract them by footnotes.
In every instance the translator has preserved Pedro Sancho's spelling of proper names, calling attention to the modern equivalent on the first occurrence of each name. In a few instances, where the text was unusually obscure, close translation has not been adhered to.