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 *stantinople with the Great Turke; and hauing seene his court he passed ouer vnto Venice, and from thence into Italie, France, Spaine, and so came againe to Lisbon. So that he and Damian de Goes were in our time the most noble Portugals, that had discouered and seene most countreyes and realmes of their owne affections.

In the same yeere 1530. little more or lesse, one Francis Pisarro, which had been in Spaine to obtaine the gouernment of Peru, turned backe againe to the citie of Panama with all things that he desired: he brought with him fower brethren, Ferdinand, Iohn, Gonzaluo, and Francis Martines de Alcantara: They were not well receiued by Diego de Almagro, and his friends; for that Pisarro had not so much commended him to the Emperour as he looked for, but omitted the discouerie, wherein he lost one of his eies, and spent much: yet in the end they agreed, and Diegro de Almagro gaue vnto Pisarro 700. pezoes of golde, victuailes and munition, wherewith he prepared himselfe the better for his iourney.

Not long after this agreement Francis Pisarro and his brethren went in two ships with the most of their soldiers and horses; but he could not arriue at Tumbez as he was minded, and so they went on land in the riuer of Peru; and went along the coast with great paines, because there was many bogs and riuers in their way, wherein some of his men were drowned: They came to the towne of Coache, where they rested, where they found much gold and emeraulds, of which they brake some to see if they were perfect. From thence Pisarro sent to Diego de Almagro twentie thousand pezoes of gold to send him men, horses, munition, and victuailes; and so he went on his iourney to the hauen named Porto Viego: and thither came vnto him one Sebastian de Benalcazer, with all such things as he had sent for, which pleased and pleasured him very much.

In the yeere 1531. he hauing this aide, passed ouer into a rich Island called Puna, where he was well receiued of the gouernour: yet at last he conspired to kil him and all his men: but Pisarro preuented him, and tooke many of the Indians, and bound them with chaines of gold and siluer. The gouernour caused those that kept his wiues to haue their noses,