employment, and the charge will be only the first setting out in
victualling and arming them; for after the first or second year I doubt
not but to see in London a Contractation-House (the whole trade of
Spanish America passed through the Casa de Contratacion at Seville)
of more receipt for Guiana than there is now in Seville for the West
Indies.

And I am resolved that if there were but a small army afoot in Guiana,
marching towards Manoa, the chief city of Inga, he would yield to her
Majesty by composition so many hundred thousand pounds yearly as should
both defend all enemies abroad, and defray all expenses at home; and
that he would besides pay a garrison of three or four thousand soldiers
very royally to defend him against other nations. For he cannot but
know how his predecessors, yea, how his own great uncles, Guascar and
Atabalipa, sons to Guiana-Capac, emperor of Peru, were, while they
contended for the empire, beaten out by the Spaniards, and that both of
late years and ever since the said conquest, the Spaniards have sought
the passages and entry of his country; and of their cruelties used to
the borderers he cannot be ignorant. In which respects no doubt but he
will be brought to tribute with great gladness; if not, he hath neither
shot nor iron weapon in all his empire, and therefore may easily be
conquered.

And I further remember that Berreo confessed to me and others, which I
protest before the Majesty of God to be true, that there was found among
the prophecies in Peru, at such time as the empire was reduced to the
Spanish obedience, in their chiefest temples, amongst divers others
which foreshadowed the loss of the said empire, that from Inglatierra
those Ingas should be again in time to come restored, and delivered from
the servitude of the said conquerors. And I hope, as we with these few