[1499] [It would seem to have been used by Herrera. Navarrete communicated a copy to Prescott, who characterizes it in his Conquest of Peru, ii. 72.—Ed.]
[1500] Papeles Manuscripts Originales y Ineditos, G. 127.
[1501] Lima, 1880.
[1502] [The author of the Varones was a grandson of the daughter of Francisco Pizarro (cf. Carter-Brown, ii. 465). H. H. Bancroft, Central America, ii. 273.—Ed.]
[1503] [It was published at Madrid in 1807, 1830, 1833, and at Paris in 1845.—Ed.]
[1504] [Harrisse (Bibl. Am. Vet., 132) quotes from Asher’s Catalogue, 1865, a Lettere di Pietro Arias, 1525, without place, which he supposes to refer to the first expedition of Almagro, Pizarro, and Luque.—Ed.]
[1505] [Cf. the notice of Herrera with references, given in the Introduction.—Ed.]
[1506] [Prescott, ii. 494.—Ed.]
[1507] [There is a copy in the Carter-Brown Library (Catalogue, no. 207). Quaritch priced it in 1879 at £9.—Ed.]
[1508] [There is a copy in the Carter-Brown Collection (no. 316); and others were sold in the Brinley (no. 5,346) and Murphy (no. 2,808) sales, as well as in the Sunderland (no. 13,521) and the Old Admiral’s sales (no. 329) in England. Quaritch priced a copy at £16 10s. in 1883,—a rapid advance on earlier sales, but exceeded in 1884 by F. S. Ellis (£21). Leclerc (giving the date 1557) priced it in 1878 at 400 francs (no. 1,862).—Ed.]