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probably Christoval 1 also.The Acostas were fellow townsmen of that charming old soldier Bernal Diaz, who told the story of the conquest of Mexico, but they were many years his juniors.Joseph de Acosta became a Jesuit in 1553, and for the next eighteen years he must have devoted him self to the study of sacred and classical authors, for he was a man of very great learning, when, at the age of thirty-two, he sailed for the New World, in company with several brethren of the same Society.Acosta left Spain in the year 1570, touched at the Canaries, and made a rapid passage across the Atlantic ; which, he tells us, would have been still more rapid if the manners had made more sail. 2He landed at Car- thagena, and finally at Nombre de Dios, whence he journeyed through eighteen leagues of tropical forest to Panama. 3 Here he enjoyed the beauties of the glori ous scenery, the novel sights at every turn, and was interested, at Capira, in the clever antics of troops of monkeys. 4From Panama the Jesuit, in pursuance of his missionary work, embarked for Peru, looking for ward with curiosity, and some dread, to the passage 1 But this is not the Christoval de Acosta who wrote the wellknown book on the medicines and drugs of India.He was a native of Burgos. His work (Tractado
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