Native tradition contained in the Quito Manuscript does not support settlement of Peru in 2197/6 BC. Neither the primary author of the Manuscript, an anonymous cleric, nor Fernando de Montesinos, the editor, claims that Peru was settled 150 years after the Deluge by Noah. Montesinos claims in his introductory remarks that Peru was settled 340 years after the Deluge by the biblical figure Ophir, which is not a native tradition. The history of Peruvian rulers related in the Manuscript does not reflect sufficient passage of time to tie that history to a date as early as 2197/6 BC. When events described in the Manuscript are compared to external accounts of Peruvian history, clear linkages appear that place the time frame of the history in the Manuscript to a period starting near the birth of Christ and ending at the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru. The Manuscript was written from historical material collected from people who were not the original settlers of Peru. DNA evidence suggests the current indigenous population of Native Americans, including the Peruvians, came to the Americas in the first few centuries after the time of Christ.