Note 209 — Chapter XVI · LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY HISTORIANS

Among the notes made by General Mitre in his copy of this book is found the following remark: “Whoever may be the author, the journey is real and contains data and ‘noticias preciosas’ which can be found only in this work. The traveller was in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in 1749, and gives many details of the condition, customs, and inhabitants of these cities. Critical and humorous anecdotes are scattered throughout the work, and on arriving at Cuzco he inserts four discussions in the form of dialogues between the author and the visitador on the condition of the Indians, of whose character he makes a very sad picture.”