Note 128 — Chapter X · WRITERS OF PERU AND NEW GRANADA, 1600-1650.

Markham’s Introduction to Bollaert’s translation of a part of Simón’s work, under the title, The Expedition of Pedro de Ursúa and Lope de Aguirre in search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1561, London, Hakluyt Society, 1881, xxx. Vásquez was a soldier under Lope de Aguirre, and according to the notice on the last page of his manuscript, “credit may be given to his account, and to all he writes, because he was an honest and upright man.”—Markham’s Introduction, xxxi.