24 A VOYAGE TO Book VIL 



the Pascana, or resiins: place, erected instead of a 

 tanil)o or inn, and called tb.e Tambo de Culebras, 

 Tlic town of Guarniey is but small and inconsider- 

 able, consistinc: only of 40 houses^ and these no better 

 than the preceding;. They arc inhabited by about 70 

 families, few of which are Spaniards. Its latitude is 

 10'^ 3> 1)3" S. The corregidor has obtained leavti to 

 reside here continually, probably to be free from the 

 intolerable plague of the moschitos at Santa;, where 

 formerly was his residence. 



On the 13th we proceeded from lience to a place 

 called Callejones, travelling over IS leagues of very 

 bad road, being either sandy fjlains, or craggy emi- 

 nences. Among the latter is one, nor a little danger- 

 ous, called Salto del Frayle, or the Fri:u's leap. It 

 is an entire rock, very high, and, towards the sea, 

 almost perpendicular. There is however no other 

 way, though the precipice cannot be viewed without 

 horror; aud even the mules tlicmselves seem afraid of 

 it by the great caution with which they take their 

 .«teps. On the following day we reaeiied rTiiamanmayOj 

 a handet at some distanie from the river Barranca, and 

 belonging to the town of Pativirca, about eiglit lea- 

 gues from the Callejones. This town is the last ii% 

 the jurisdiction of Santa or Guarmev. 



Pataviuca consists only of 50 or 60 houses, and 

 a proportional number of inhabitants : among whom 

 are some Spanish families, but very few Indians. 

 Near the sea coast, which is about three quarters of 

 a league from (iuamanmayo, are stiil remaining some 

 huge walls of unburnt bricks ; being the ruins of an 

 ancient Indian structure; audits magnitude confirms 

 the tradition of the natives,, that it was one of the 

 palaces of the ancient cas¿(pies, or princes ; and 

 doubtless its situation is excellently adapttui to tluit 

 ])arpose, having on one sidea most fertile and <ielight.- 

 i\\\ country, and oa the other, the roiVeiihing prospect 

 of the sea. 



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