Peru in the Guano Age

ld seem that His Divine Majesty t

t deceit poisons his soul and makes hi

arge harvest of evils, let hi

n Alonso the Wise, when he said-'If this world w

695, a rich Spanish merchant, living in the neighbourhood

with his money, no unfortunate he did not run to console. And this

undrels for whom Don Pedro had been bound, reduced him to great straits. Our honourable Spaniar

d applied to many whom, in the days of his opulence, he had helped, and sole

ntained in the proverb which says 'There are n

love he believed like a child, it was very clearly

uld again become rich, even though to make h

awakened within him a profound disgust for human nature. Like the Roman tyrant, he could have wishe

m Lima, and went t

Biscayan usurer. Some said that he had died of congestion, and others d

e taking of revenge? The publi

t this event coincided with the

t of 1706, when Don Pedro returned to Li

man, self-denying and genero

that all Lima knew that he was again rich; but they likewise knew

a misanthrope. He walked alone, he never returned a salutation, he visited no one s

la had called a notary, made his will, and left a

ll and made another, in which he distributed his fortune in equal proportions among the various convents and monasteries of Lima; setting apar

graphically says, 'the Jesuit and the Friar scratched und

er which, after reading and re-reading, made his excellency cogitate, and the result of his cogitation was to send for a magistrate wh