WHOLE VOL. THE WEST INDIES VAZQUEZ DE ESPINOSA ^J^ 



In the district of this city, as in the majority of the whole Kingdom 

 of Tucuman, they gather quantities of algarroba (carob beans), 

 which is a very wholesome and nutritious food for the Indians ; they 

 make bread out of it, and wine too. There is much escaped or wild 

 cattle, as has been noted in other chapters. 



Chapter XXXVIII [28] 



Of the City of Cordoba in New Andalusia, Province of Tucuman, 

 and of What It Comprises in Its District. 



1779. From the city of Santiago del Estero it is 85 leagues E. to 

 the city of Cordoba, which is the largest and best in this State. One 

 travels 30 leagues along the bank of the Rio Grande de Santiago, 

 as far as the parish of Acufia ; farther on there are a few settlements 

 and ranches along the road up to the parishes of Torreblanca, El 

 Totoral, and others belonging to the residents of the city of Cordoba ; 

 in these there are a few factories of woolen serge (jergueta), coarse 

 woolen cloth (sayales), grograms, hats, and Indian blankets. 



1780. The city of Cordoba is at 32°3o'; it has a good climate, 

 with a winter in which it snows, and a summer delightful for being 

 cool. The provinces round about it were subdued by Capt. Juan de 

 Tejeda Mirabal, Capt. Jeronimo de Bustamente, Gen. Don Pablo 

 de Meneses, and Captains Juan de Burgos and Alonso de la Camara, 

 and other captains and noble knights (Marg. : In Caltaqui, Capt. 

 Juan Perez de Zorita) ; and when they had pacified all those provinces, 

 they founded the city in the year 1557 (1057 [1054] in MS; 1547?) 

 on a plain by the bank of a large river ; and to secure it against 

 floods, strong walls have been put up on the river side. 



1781. The city will have 500 Spanish residents, with many service 

 Indians and Negroes besides. All the construction is of remarkable 

 stone architecture ; the streets are very straight, and it occupies the 

 area of a large city. It contains an excellent parish church, with 

 Dominican, Franciscan, and Mercedarian convents, and two wealthy 

 Jesuit establishments, the novitiate and that of the professed Fathers ; 

 this has a famous college on the university model, with courses in 

 Latin, Arts, and Theology, and they grant all degrees. There is 

 another college with ordinarily 40 collegians with blue sashes. It 

 has three convents of nuns: one of Santa Catalina de Siena, under 

 the regular rule ; another of Barefoot Carmelite nuns, named Santa 

 Teresa de Jesus ; this was established in the residence of Gen. Don 

 Pablo de Meneses, by a [daughter] granddaughter of his, daughter 

 of Capt. Juan de Tejeda. The convent of Santa Clara was founded 



