Travels in Peru and India / While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.

by Sir Clements R. Markham

[178] Manifesto de los agravios que padecen los Indios.—MS. at Lima.

[179] Funes, iii. p. 242-333.

[180] Calancha.

[181] In 1591 a duty of 2 per cent. was placed on all merchandise, and 5 per cent. on coca.—Report of the Prince of Esquilache, 1620.

[182] This system of repartimientos or repartos was also introduced in the first instance with a benevolent intent, that of supplying the people with European goods at a reasonable price. I use the word reparto in future, to distinguish this system from that of the repartimiento during the earlier period of Spanish domination in Peru, which, with the same word, had a very different meaning.

[183] Informe por Diego Tupac Amaru.—Azangaro. Oct. 18, 1781. (Angelis).

[184] Letter from Gen. del Valle to two friends at Lima, Oct. 3, 1781.

[185] Colonization and Colonies, p. 6 and p. 283 (note).

[186] Papeles Varios, No. 4.—MS. at Lima.

[187] Manifesto de Don Juan de Padilla.—MS. at Lima.