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Excerpt from Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco De Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro; II. Report of Miguel De Astete on the Expedition to Pachacamac; III. Letter of Hernando Pizzaro to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo; IV. Report of Pedro Sancho on the Partition of the Ran Francisco de Xeres, the Secretary of Pizarro, wrote his account of the early days of the conquest of Peru, on the spot, by order of his master. He sailed from San Lucar, with Pizarro, in January 1530, was with the conqueror in his voyage, in his march along the Peruvian coast and across the Andes, and was an eye-witness of the events at Cassamarca, down to the murder of the Ynca Atahuallpa. He returned to Seville on July 3rd, 1534, after an absence of four years and a half, with the first instalments of gold. His friends lived at Seville, and I gather from Argote de Molina that he came of a respectable family settled at Ubeda; but nothing is known of himself personally, beyond what can be deduced from his narrative. The narrative of Xeres appears to have been printed at Seville in 1534, the year of his return, but this first edition is extremely scarce. The second edition, which was very carelessly printed, appeared at Salamanca in 1547, and is also very rare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.