Hiftorie of the Indies, lib.], 



jue thoufand Indians, which went to tea in their veflels 

 of reeds; at whofe returne , the Ingua ( who had layde 

 many fouldiersinambufh) madeacruellbutcherieof 

 them, fo as after ward this land remained vnpeopled, 

 although it be aboundant and fertile . I did fee an o- 

 ther manner of fifhing, wherevnto Don Francis of To- 

 If do the Viceroy didde leade mee, yet was it not in the 

 fea, but in a river which they call great in the Province 

 of Charcas, where the Indians Chiraquanas plunged 

 into the water , and fwimming wyth an admirable 

 fwiftnefle , followed the fifli , where withdartes and 

 hookes which they vfc to carry in their righthand, on 

 ly fwimming with the left ) they wound the fiftuand fb 

 hurt, they brought them foorth , feeming in this more 

 like vnto fiflies then men of the land. But now that 

 we have left the fea , let vs come to other kinde of wa 

 ters that remaine to be fpoken of. 



Of Lakes and Pooh* that be At /^Indies. 

 CH AP. I<S. 



IN place of the Mediterranean Sea, which is in the 

 old world , the Creator hath furnifhcd this new 

 with many Lakes, whereof there are fomefb great, as 

 they may be properly called feas ; feeing the Scripture 

 calleth thatofPaleJlina fo, which is not fo great as fome 

 of thefe. The moft famous,is that of Titicaca, which is 

 at Peru, in the Province of Catia* , the which as I have 

 faid in the former booke , containes neere fourfcore 

 leagues in cornpafTe , into the which, there runnes ten 

 ortwdve great rivers. A while fince, they began to 



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