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affliction, and brought his flocks from ruin to salvation. The grateful 

 and fortunate fellow at the end of his trip, realizing the benefits 

 he had received, at the same time acknow^ledged the profits he had 

 made in such good company, and thus in his gratitude he started 

 the manufacture of a lamp for Her costing lOO silver marks, and as 

 things continued to go well with him, thanks to his excellent judg- 

 ment and energy, he has made a lamp for Her which is the largest 

 yet known in Christendom; it is made of over 1,500 silver marks, 

 and since it is so large and there is nothing that can hold it up 

 if one tries to carry it, it is set upon pillars ; it is the greatest marvel 

 of its kind in the world; it is of such great size that 16 men can 

 easily find room within it. Its chain links are as thick as a man's 

 wrist ; round about it are as many candlesticks to hold tapers as the 

 year has days. They assured me that it cost over 25,000 pesos ; and 

 I conclude by saying that there is no human tongue which can count 

 the miracles which God Our Lord has wrought and works through 

 the medium of this blessed image, nor any pen, swift though it be, 

 that could write them out. Where this most holy image stands, is 

 the convent of the Glorious Patriarch and Doctor of the Church 

 St. Augustine. 



The village of Huaqui is the last in this province ; the Incas had 

 royal apartments and palaces there. At this point this province and 

 Corregimiento is bounded to the ESE. by the Chuquiago Valley, 

 in which the city of La Paz is built ; to the S., by the Corregimiento 

 of Caracollo, and Sicasica, which is the end of the Province of 

 El Collao. 



Chapter IH 



Of the City of Nuestra Sehora de La Paz, and Other Provinces 

 in Its District. [Six words illegible.] 



1626. From the village of Tiahuanaco it is 7 leagues to that of 

 Viacha, along the King's Highway for Potosi, leaving on the right 

 many villages in the Province of Los Pacajes and Caracollo. From 

 Viacha one leaves the Highway to the right and reaches the village 

 of La Laja ; from there it is a short day's journey to the Chuquiago 

 Valley. After Licentiate Pedro de la Gasca had defeated Gonzalo 

 Pizarro in the battle of Xaquixaguana or Sacsahuana and had dealt 

 out justice to him and his followers, as is amply narrated in the 

 histories, he sent out Capt. Alonso de Mendoza with commission 

 and authority of President Gasca; and in the year 1549 in the name 

 of the Emperor he founded in the Chuquiapo Valley the city of 



