Lizárraga’s most important work was rather secular than religious. It was called _Descripción y población de las Indias_. Doubt has arisen as to where this book was written, whether, as indicated in the text, in “the valley of Jauja,” or in Chile. Medina has discussed the question, and has reached the conclusion that it was written in Chile, during the second sojourn of Lizárraga in that country, and from the number of known copies of it, he infers that it must have enjoyed a certain popularity, if that may be said of a manuscript necessarily confined to a few readers.[173] [Sidenote: Contents of Lizárraga’s book] Among the topics treated in this book are the geography of Chile and Peru, the viceroys and the governors, the bishops and the provincials, the territory of Cuyo, and the road over the cordillera. One notes in this part of it the imposing effect of these mountains with their grand panoramas and their majestic summits of eternal ice. Lizárraga, like many other writers, was moved by the grandeur of nature here displayed. At the same time some of his views suggest the crude faith of his generation. For instance the appearance of the comet of 1577 he interpreted as an announcement that God was about to punish the people for their sins, and that Drake the same year was sent to inflict the punishment. [Sidenote: Bishop of Paraguay] As bishop of Paraguay, like the great majority of the priests who attained episcopal rank in America, Lizárraga led a life of virtue and devotion. He died at the age of eighty, and the time of his death accorded with his own prophetic announcement: “a las seis de la tarde iré a dar cuenta a Dios.” [Sidenote: _Desengaño del mundo_] In the last half of the sixteenth century, while the New World was displaying to Europeans its magnificent scenery and its untold wealth, there were persons, particularly among the clergy, who, in the midst of the general hopefulness, assumed to be disillusioned respecting earthly affairs. Julián Martel’s reflections of this character were set down in a book entitled _Desengaño del mundo_. He was born in Granada, and went from Spain to Peru as a member of the secular clergy, but he became an Augustinian friar, and later rector of the college of his order and prior at Lima. He was esteemed for his austere life and for his learning, particularly for his knowledge of Latin and of the writings of the Fathers of the Church.[174] II [Sidenote: Jerónimo de Oré] [Sidenote: _Símbolo católico indiano_]