THE
Reading edition
SECOND PART
OF THE
GENERAL HISTORY
CALLED
"INDICA"
WHICH WAS COMPOSED
BY
THE CAPTAIN PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA
BY ORDER OF
THE MOST EXCELLENT LORD DON FRANCISCO DE TOLEDO VICEROY GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE KINGDOMS OF PERU AND MAYOR-DOMO OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD OF CASTILLE
1572
[Illustration: Facsimile (reduced) of PAGE I OF THE SARMIENTO MS. 1572. From the original, Goettingen University Library. Reproduced and printed for the Hakluyt Society by Donald Macbeth.]