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rivers carry it in abundance, but they fail to take out and enjoy this 

 great wealth through lack of labor. The city of Cordoba is 4 leagues 

 W. of Santa Marta ; from there one goes to the Indian village of 

 La Cienega, where they take boats and travel on the Rio Grande 

 de La Magdalena to the town of Tenerife, which will have 40 Spanish 

 residents, and is 30 leagues S. of Santa Marta. From this city they 

 ship its fruit, poultry, preserves, and other luxuries to Zaragoza. 

 Thirty leagues S. of Tenerife is the city of Tamalameque, with as 

 many as 10 Spanish residents. From Tamalameque one sails 30 

 leagues up the Rio Grande de La Magdalena to the port of Ocaha ; 

 and from this port it is 18 leagues' land journey to the city of Ocafia, 

 which has over 100 Spanish residents. The chief commerce of its 

 citizens is in wheat, sugar, preserves, and other luxuries which they 

 ship to Cartagena and to the new mining camp of Guamaco, near 

 Zaragoza, which has yielded, and still yields, great wealth of gold. 



940. This is the district of the Diocese and State of Santa Marta : 

 on the W. it is bounded by that of Cartagena, divided only by the 

 Rio Grande, and Ocaha, which belongs to this district of Santa 

 Marta; on the S. it borders on the city of Pamplona, of the Arch- 

 diocese of the New Kingdom of Granada ; on the E. it touches the 

 Diocese of Venezuela with the Lake of Maracaibo dividing them, 

 which is 30 leagues from the Rio de la Hacha ; one passes from one 

 State to the other over the prairies of Orino, where there are countless 

 stray and wild mares. At 8 leagues from Orino are the Guajijos 

 Indians, idolatrous heathen, who could easily be converted to the 

 Faith ; these go naked, both men and women, wearing nothing but 

 a bit of cloth over their loins. 



941. The clothing of the Indians of the Diocese and State of Santa 

 Marta consists of shirts and painted cotton blankets ; they wear gold 

 earhoops (orejeras), bits of gold in their nostrils, gold plaques and 

 eagles on their breasts, with pebble bracelets, and gold pieces on 

 their wrists and insteps. The caciques and principal men with more 

 wealth than the others, wear also fine round precious stones and gold 

 jewels. The Indian women wear petticoats and painted cotton blan- 

 kets, lavishly adorned and decorated with gold jewelry and other 

 precious stones. 



Chapter VI 



Of the City of Santa Fe de Bogota, Its Foundation and Extent, 

 and of Other Features of These Provinces. 



942. The city of Santa Fe de Bogota, court city and capital of 

 the New Kingdom of Granada, is named Bogota after the powerful 



