Anazco, Pedro pz, b. at Chachapoyas (Peru) in 1550; d. at Asuncion, Paraguay, 1605. His father was Pedro de Añazco, a Spanish captain, companion of Belalcazar in the conquest of Ecuador; and through him, it is said, the first notice of the “Dorado” of Guatavitd reached the Spaniards in Ecuador. At the age of twenty-two Añazco became a Jesuit. In 1577 he was sent to Juli, on Lake Titicaca. Thence he passed to the Chaco tribe among the Abipones and, in 1593, to Paraguay, where he died. He was an indefatigable missionary and a zealous student of Indian languages. Highly respectable authorities, like Gonzalez Davila and Lozano, credit him with having composed grammars, “doctrines”, and catechisms in nine different Indian languages of South America.
Divina, Teatro eclesidstico de la primitiva Iglesia de las Indias occidentales (Madrid, 1649); Lozano, Descripcion del gran Chaco (Cordova, 1733); Mendiburu, Diccionario; Torres Saldamando, Antiguos Jesuitas (Lima, 1882); Relaciones geograficas de Indias (Madrid, 1897, Appendix), IV. None of ‘Anazco’s linguistic works have been published, and it is to be feared that most, if not all, of his manuscripts are lost.
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Ad. F. Bandelier.