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of God they have not come upon it, for the fabric of the building 

 is enormous, a huge ruin with many gates and a great subterranean 

 labyrinth ; and yet they say that the real and genuine gate which 

 gives access to the treasure, lies across the river to the E., with its 

 entrance concealed by a slab or rock, and up to the present day 

 they have not been able to locate it. The province has a good climate 

 and produces large amounts of food crops and fruit. 



1374. Two leagues S. of Huari a bridge spans a large swift river 

 which separates the Province of Huari from that of Pincos, which 

 is under Mercedarian religious instruction. Near the bridge there is 

 a woolen mill belonging to the descendants of Licentiate Caspar de 

 Espinosa, who served His Majesty in the early days of the explora- 

 tion of the Indies, having been President of the Circuit Court of 

 Santo Domingo in Hispaniola ; afterwards he subdued many prov- 

 inces and established some villages in the district of Panama and 

 was of great assistance in Peru; his great authority and tact led 

 to his acting as arbiter at Cuzco of the controversy between the 

 Marques Don Francisco Pizarro and Commander Don Diego de 

 Almagro, which might have been composed had he not died just then ; 

 the death of so wise and courageous a man was a great loss to His 

 Majesty and all the pioneers. 



1375. From the woolen mill one climbs a long grade to the tambo 

 of Pincos, passing to the right on the W. the riverside village of 

 San Marcos, a Mercedarian curacy. From Pincos one travels 7 

 leagues over very rough, cold country to the tambo of Taparaco, 

 which belongs to the Province of Los Huamalies ; from there, 4 

 leagues of bad road over the slopes of a sierra, keeping on one's 

 left a deep river which comes down from the snowfields. At the end 

 of these grades one crosses another river by a bridge and comes to 

 a wide plain covered with cattle and llamas ; at the end of it there 

 are large buildings, with the tambo of Huanuco el Viejo, from which 

 we return over the same road to describe the Province of Huailas. 

 All these provinces are between 9° and 11° S. 



Chapter XLVI [48] (47) 



Of the Province and Valley of Huailas and What It Comprises. 



1376. The Province of the Huailas Valley runs N. and S. from 

 Hatunhuailas, its northern boundary point with Conchucos Province, 

 to Recuay, its southernmost village on the border of the Province 

 of Cajatambo ; on the E. it is bounded by the Provinces of Huari 

 and Piscobamba, with high snow-capped sierras in between; to the 



