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death there at the end of the year 1561 of the rebel Lope de Aguirre. 

 It will contain 60 Spanish residents, with a church and Franciscan 

 convent. It lies 60 leagues to the SW. of Coro, and 12 from Tucuyo. 

 On one border of Barquisimeto, 20 leagues toward Coro, lies the 

 city of Carora, with 60 Spanish residents, a church, and a Franciscan 

 convent ; it is a rich region and the best mules in those provinces are 

 raised there and exported to Peru and elsewhere. 



278. The city of Tucuyo was founded by Captain Carvajal in the 

 year 1550; it will contain 100 Spanish residents, with a parish church 

 and Dominican and Franciscan convents ; it has a good climate. They 

 raise quantities of corn and wheat in its district, and transport the 

 meal to the Lake of Maracaibo, to be shipped to Cartagena and else- 

 where ; they have cattle and mule ranches. It is 53 leagues from 

 Coro, and 32 from the city of Guanare, toward the plains of Barinas, 

 where they raise the best tobacco brought from the Indies ; it was 

 founded by Capt. Juan Fernandez de Leon in the year 1586. Eight 

 leagues from this city of Tucuyo, back of Carora on the Campuzano 

 mountain range, there are creatures called salvages (wild men), 

 unique in the whole world ; they have the build and proportions of 

 human beings in every respect except that that they are covered with 

 hair some 6 inches long, of a color between dark gray and silvery ; 

 they do not talk. 



279. The city of Trujillo was founded by Capt. Diego Garcia de 

 Paredas in the Province of Cuicas in the year 1559, after he had 

 subdued and pacified the country, in a valley between very high 

 sierras ; the whole country is very rough. It will contain 200 Spanish 

 residents, with a church and Dominican and Franciscan convents. 

 There were over 100,000 Indian tribute payers in this province when 

 it was conquered ; at present there are very few, for they have wasted 

 away and died. The country is rich in gold and silver ore ; it has 

 large cattle and mule ranches ; they gather quantities of cacao, corn, 

 wheat, and other crops, all of which they take over to the Lake of 

 Maracaibo for shipment ; it is 65 leagues from Coro, 25 from Tucuyo, 

 and 24 from the city of Merida in the Archdiocese of Bogota, which 

 adjoins these provinces to the W. 



280. The Lake of Maracaibo is the shipping place of the products 

 of these provinces and of those of Merida and Pamplona in the New 

 Kingdom of Granada, for it is from there that they export them to 

 Cartagena, Santo Domingo, and other points. This lake belongs to 

 the district of the Diocese and State of Venezuela ; it is a fresh-water 

 lake, and runs 40 leagues inland; it is 10 leagues wide and 80 in 

 circumference, with several settlements on its shores. Its chief harbor. 



