Molina’s _Conquista y población del Perú_ was written in Lima. It was printed for the first time in 1873 in _Sud-América_, of Santiago; it appeared later in Medina’s _Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de Chile_ (vol. VII, 428). Besides his narrative of the conquest and settlement of Peru, Molina wrote a _Diario_ of Almagro’s expedition to Chile, in which he condemned the inhuman conduct of the conquistadores towards the Indians. He died in 1578 at the age of eighty-four, having many years before ceased to perform the duties of his priestly office on account of the failure of his mental faculties. With respect to its style, the _Conquista y población del Perú_ is superior to most of the writings of its time, and historians have found it sufficiently important to be carefully considered among their sources of information. V [Sidenote: Enríquez de Guzmán] A part of the personal narrative of Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán belongs to the list of contemporary accounts of the conquest of Peru. Sections thirty-five to fifty-four treat of Guzmán’s journey to Peru, which fell in the last part of 1533. He was absent from Spain between September, 1533, and the twenty-sixth of June, 1540, the date of his return to Madrid; and he was thus in Peru during the conflict between Pizarro and Almagro. The rest of the narrative is a record of his experience in Spain, chiefly in the Emperor’s service in the islands of Majorca and Iviça. After his return he sent to the emperor an account of his observations during his absence from Spain, giving prominence to the conflicts between the two conquistadores.[19] A glimpse of Guzmán’s spirit may be had from the following statement at the end of his narrative: [Sidenote: Guzmán’s confession] “In the year of our Lord, 1533, during Lent, I confessed and received the most holy sacrament, as every faithful Christian ought to do. Amongst other things which I then did, was to declare, as I now declare, that many things in this book, both to improve the style, and to give an appetite to him who reads it, are not related exactly as they happened, though the substance is true: I therefore desire that each reader may believe as much as he ought to believe, so that neither his conscience nor mine may be hurt.”[20] The part of Guzmán’s narrative that relates to America may be accepted as true; in fact, as has been suggested, “Guzmán as an eye-witness may be considered as the most original authority for all events in Peruvian history from the commencement of the siege of Cuzco in 1534 to the execution of Almagro in 1538.” [Sidenote: Diego Fernández] [Sidenote: Agustín de Zárate]