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PROVINCE OF CARAVAYA. 



Ctiap, XII. 



tyranny of the latter at length exasperated them, and led to 

 the destruction of San Gavan. Since that time the Chunchos 

 have wandered in the forests in small tribes/ the implacable 

 enemies of all white men and Inca Indians. 



Following the eastern slopes of the Andes to the south- 

 east, the next village to Ayapata, at the head of another deep 

 ravine, is Ccoasa, and next follow Usicayus, Phara, and Lim- 

 bani. Phara is in a ravine on the eastern slope of the 

 Andes, about thirty-five miles from Crucero. Here many 

 gold-mines were worked by the Seiiores Mulattos, and at no 

 great distance is the famous gold-mine of Aporuma, in the 

 ravine of Pacchani. Phara is on the road to the gold-chggings, 

 which were discovered by the brothers Poblete, and which 

 attracted so many luckless adventurers between 1849 and 

 1854. They are at a distance of fifteen leagues to the north- 

 ward. The path lies along a long ridge, gradually descending 

 for six leagues to a little hamlet called La Mina. Thence 

 to the banks of the river Ynambari, here called Huari-huari, 

 is a distance of three leagues, down a very dangerous road, 

 covered with huge blocks of schist, and sldrtiug along feai-ful 

 precipices. For this distance the road is passable for mules. 

 The river is seventy yards broad, and is crossed by an oroya, 

 or bridge of ropes, traversed by a sort of net or cage, into 

 which the passenger gets, and is hauled over to the other side, 

 at a giddy height above the boiling flood. On the other side, at 

 the junction of the Huari-huari and the golden river of Chal- 

 luma,^ there is a place wliich has been named Versailles by 



' These Chunchos of Caravaya be- 

 long to the same ti-ibe as the fierce 

 Indians of the Paucartambo valleys, 

 for some account of whom see my for- 

 mer work, Cuzco and Lima, p. 272. 



Don Pablo Pimentel calls the wild 

 tribes of Caravaya Caranques and 8u- 

 mahuanes, but I think this is a mistake. 



Garcilasso de la Vega mentions the 

 Coranqiies as a fierce tribe to the north 

 of Quito, who were conquered by the 

 Inca Huayna Capac. — Gomm. Real, i. 

 lib. viii. cap. vii. p. 274. 



^ Challhua, fish, in Quichua; and 

 uma, water, in Aymara. 



