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Title: An Account of the Conquest of Peru

Author: Pedro Sancho

Translator: Philip Ainsworth Means

Release Date: September 12, 2008 [EBook #26602]

Language: English

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DOCUMENTS AND NARRATIVES
CONCERNING THE
DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST
OF LATIN AMERICA

PUBLISHED BY
THE CORTES SOCIETY
NEW YORK

NUMBER TWO

_Edition limited to 250 copies
of which ten are on Kelmscott paper_

_This copy is Number_

85

AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
CONQUEST OF PERU

WRITTEN BY
PEDRO SANCHO

SECRETARY TO PIZARRO
AND SCRIVENER TO HIS ARMY

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND ANNOTATED
BY
PHILIP AINSWORTH MEANS

THE CORTES SOCIETY
NEW YORK
1917

COCKAYNE, BOSTON

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

The work of Pedro Sancho is one of the most valuable accounts of the
Spanish conquest of Peru that we possess. Nor is its value purely
historical. The "Relacion" of Sancho gives much interesting ethnological
information relative to the Inca dominion at the time of its demolition.
Errors Pedro Sancho has in plenty; but the editor has striven to
counteract them by footnotes.

In every instance the translator has preserved Pedro Sancho's spelling
of proper names, calling attention to the modern equivalent on the first
occurrence of each name. In a few instances, where the text was
unusually obscure, close translation has not been adhered to.

The virtues, as well as the shortcomings of this account, are so obvious
that an extended reference to them here is superfluous. It must always
be borne in mind that this document partook of the natu