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the Atlantic along this parallel. All the villages in the Jauja Valley 

 have [very] fine well-constructed churches, with excellent towers 

 and bells. Many Spaniards live among the Indians in this valley. 

 To the N. on the Tarma road near this valley there is another small 

 one, which will be 2 leagues long and ^ league wide ; it contains 

 some ranches with cattle, swine, and many llamas and merino sheep 

 [in abundance] ; this little valley runs E. and W. Round about here 

 there are many stray or wild llamas, the guanacos, similar to the 

 llamas, but with a muzzle which is darker colored and more nearly 

 black ; these whinny almost like horses. There are likewise great 

 numbers of vicunas, which are another species of those animals ; 

 they are more slender [and agalgados], with a white belly and wool 

 finer and softer than silk ; they are of a clear gray color, approaching 

 that of lye-dried raisins. They live up along the snow and search 

 out the coldest places; they move in flocks of six or eight, not more, 

 and are very timid and nimble creatures. When they see someone 

 passing [(they are very alert)] and take notice of him, they all 

 put their heads together and the male, who is their leader, sounds 

 the alarm and oflF he goes, the rest answer him and follow his exact 

 trail without veering to one side or the other and in file. After run- 

 ning a short distance, they stop and take another look ; then ofif they 

 rush again, and so on. 



Chapter XXXVII [38, 40] 



Of Other Provinces and Valleys in the Archdiocese of Lima. 



1340. Adjoining this great Province of Jauja on the WSW. is 

 that of the Yauyos. This is very rough broken country, with a good 

 climate, [very] fertile and prolific ; they raise much corn, wheat, 

 and other cereals, with excellent fruit, bpth of native and Spanish 

 varieties. The Viceroy appoints a Corregidor in this province for 

 its administration. 



1341. W. of this province, on the [rainless] plains and only half 

 a league from the seacoast, 22 leagues S. of Lima, at scant 13° S., 

 is the town of Cafiete, in the splendid Guarco Valley. It was founded 

 in the year 1560, at the time when the Marques de Cafiete was 

 Viceroy of Peru. The valley is wealthy and prolific; they raise 

 quantities of wheat, corn, and other Spanish and native cereals ; 

 they have [excellent] vineyards and other plantations or orchards 

 of native fruit trees and those we have in Europe. [It has great 

 possibilities for] It is a large valley with excellent land and abundance 

 of water which they take in irrigation ditches from the large river 



