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remark, " Sublevacion cle los Indies- - Salto de 

 Guzman," giving us to understand that the exploring 

 party had barely crossed the river when the Indians 

 rose against them, and that Guzman himself re- 

 passed the river at a bound. These were probably 

 Indians taken from the towns to carry loads and 

 work the mines ; they can hardly have been of the 

 nation of the Curarayes, who inhabited the river 

 somewhat lower down. 



A little north and east of the Anteojos there is 

 another route running a little farther northward and 

 passing through the great morass of Illubamba, at 

 the base of Los Mulatos, where we find marked El 

 Atolladero (the Bog) cle Guzman, probably because 

 he had slipped up to the neck in it. Beyond this 

 the track continues north-east, and after passing the 

 same stream as in the former route, but nearer to its 

 source in the Inca's Fountain, there is a tambo called 

 San Nicolas, and a cross erected near it marks the 

 place where one of the miners met his death (Muerte 

 de Romero). Another larger cross (La Cruz de 

 Romero) is erected farther on at the top of a basaltic 

 mountain called El Sotillo. At this point the track 

 enters the Cordillera de las Margasitas, and on 

 reaching a little to the east of the meridian of 

 Zunchu-urcu, there is a tambo with a chapel, to which 

 is appended the remark, " Destacamento de Ripalda 

 y retirada per Orden Superior." Beyond the fact 

 thus indicated, that one Ripalda had been stationed 

 there in command of a detachment of troops, and 

 had afterwards retired at the order of his superiors, 

 I can give no information. 



There are many mines about this station, 

 especially those of Romero just to the north, those 



