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ravines — alders, willows, and lugmos(?). The climate is equable the 

 whole year, neither cold nor hot. Medicinal herbs grow there, like 

 chilca and guamanguaca, which are used as remedies for impotence 

 (frialdad; chills and fever?). The second village is Huaitara; a 

 large river runs through it, which rises 12 leagues away and is fed 

 by the ranges where the mines are, and by the snows. Its high-water 

 period is from December to March, but it is always a considerable 

 stream. Another river flows past the village of Santiago ; this rises 

 in a spring 8 leagues away ; the Indians irrigate their chacras or fields 

 from these streams. There are pejerreyes in these rivers, and excel- 

 lent crayfish. They grow all sorts of Spanish vegetables, and native 

 fruit like paltas (aguacates) and pacaes ; Spanish figs, oranges, and 

 other excellent fruit. 



On their cattle, sheep, and hog ranches there was an annual increase 

 of 18,000 head ; there are mule and horse ranches also, and they have 

 poultry, quail, vicunas, guanacos, deer, and tarugas (furciferine 

 deer) ; this is another species of deer, shorter and stockier, and it 

 has the best bezoar stones. 



There are two curacies for the eight villages in this province, 

 occupied by two clerics nominated by the Bishop of Guamanga and 

 confirmed by the Viceroy for the royal patronage; one has three 

 villages, the other, five. One usually lives in the village of Huaitara, 

 the other in San Juan de Cordoba. Each receives 500 assay pesos 

 salary (de sinodo), and contributions (el pie de altar) bring in 200 

 assay pesos for each. 



Chapter LXVI [67] (68) 



Of the Province of Los Huachos, the Villages in Its District, and 

 Its Special Features. 



1459. In this Province of Los Huachos, there are eight Indian 

 villages : San Cristobal de Nucayca, which is the capital ; La Con- 

 cepcion de Arma, La Asuncion de Tantara, San Francisco de Cocas, 

 San Pedro de Guacara, San Juan de Huangasca, Santiago de Chavin, 

 and San Pedro de Cacara. These were located in their settlements 

 in the days of Don Francisco de Toledo ; they speak the Lengua 

 General del Inca (Quichua). In the year 1610 they formed an 

 encomienda in first life tenure ; the incumbent was Don Juan de 

 Barrios. There were 572 tribute-paying Indians in this province ; 

 each paid as tribute 2 pesos and i tomin, and 9 assay granos, at 

 12^ reals each, in silver, plus i peso in cloth, llamas, corn, poultry. 



