Hiftorie of the Indies lib. $. 2x1 



An Indian called Gualpa, of the Nation of Ckumfa 

 lilca, which is a Province of Cufei, going one day to 

 hunt for venifbn 5 pafiing tovvardes the weaft whither 

 thcbeaft was fled , he beganne to runne vppe againft 

 therocke, which at that time was covered and plan- 

 ted with certaine trees,they call rinua,md with thick 

 buflies , and as he ftrivcd to gette vp a way which was 

 ibmewhat rough andvneafic, hee was forced to lay 

 holdevponabraunch, which ifliied from a veine of a 

 filvermine (which fince they have called Rich) which 

 he pulled vp , perceiving in the hole or rootc thereof 

 mettall, the which hee knew to be veiy good 3 by the 

 experience hee had of the mines of Porco : and after 

 finding vpon the ground, certaine peeces of mettall, 

 which lay broken and difperfed neere to this veine, be 

 ing (carle well able to iudge thereof,for that the colour 

 was fpoyled and changed by the Sunne and raine. He 

 carried it to Porco to trie by the Guttyras ( which is the <. 

 triall of mettall by fire , and. having thereby found the ' 

 great riches and his happy fortune, he fecretly digged 

 and drew mettall out of this veine , not imparting it to 

 any man, vntil that an Indian called Guanc*, of the val 

 ley ofXaura, which is vpon the bordures of the Cittie 

 of Kings, who remaining at Porco, neerc vnto Gualpa of 

 C^wfofe'/^pcrccved oneday-that he made a refining, 

 and that his wedges and brickes were greater then fuch 

 as were vfaally made in thofc places : and alfo increa- 

 fing in his expence of apparrell , having till then lived 

 butbafely. For this reafon, and for that the mettall his 

 neighbour refined was different from that of Porco, he 

 thought to difcover this fccret,and wrought fo,that al 

 though the other kept it as fecret as hee could,yet tho- 

 row importunitie he was forced to carry him vnto the 



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