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made a,cruell butcherie of them, so as afterward this land LlB - m - 

 remained vnpeopled, although it be aboundant and fertile. 

 I did see an other manner of fishing, wherevnto Don 

 Francisco de Toledo the Viceroy didde leade mee, yet was it 

 not in the sea, but in a river which they call great, in the 

 Province of Charcas, where the Indians Chirihuanas 

 plunged into the water, and swimming with an admirable 

 swiftnesse, followed the fish, where with dartes and hookes 

 which they vse to carry in their right hand, only swimming 

 with the left, they wound the fish, and so hurt they brought 

 them foorth, seeming in this more like vnto fishes then 

 men of the land. But now that we have left the sea, let vs 

 come to other kinde of waters that remaine to be spoken of. 



CHAP. xvi. Of Lakes and Pooles that be at the Indies. 



In place of the Mediterranean Sea, which is in the old 

 world, the Creator hath furnished this new with many Lakes, 

 whereof there are some so great as they may be properly 

 called seas, seeing the Scripture calleth that of Palestina 

 so, which is not so great as some of these. The most 

 famous is that of Titicaca, which is at Peru, in the Province 

 of Collao, the which., as I have said in the former booke, 

 containes neere fourscore leagues in compasse, into the 

 which there runnes ten or twelve great rivers. A while 

 since they began to saile in it with barkes and shippes, 

 wherein they proceeded so ill that the first shippe was split 

 with a tempest that did rise in the Lake. The water is not 

 altogether sower nor salt, as that of the sea, but it is so 

 thicke as it cannot be drunke. There are two kindes of 

 fishes breed in this Lake in great aboundance, the one they 

 call Suchis, 1 which is great and savorous, but phlegmatike 

 and vnwholesome, and the other Bogos, which is more 

 1 Sec also G. dc hi V&amp;lt; &amp;lt;j, i, lib. viii, cap. 22. 



