^65 ulloa's voyage to south America. 



fame vociferous manner by all within the reach of the found, which is greatly increafed 

 and prolonged by the repercuffions of the valleys and breaches of the mountains. 



II. The jurifdidion joining on the fouth to that of St. Miguel de Ibarra, is called Ota- 

 balo, in the jurifdidion of which are the following eight principal villages or parifhes : 



I. Cayambe. V. Cotacache. 



II. Tabacundo. VI. San Pablo. 



' III. Otabalo. VII. Tocache. 



IV. Atontaqui. VIIL Urququi. 



The parifh of Otabalo is well fituated, and fo large and populous th^t it is faid to con- 

 tain eighteen or twenty thoufand fouls, and among them a confiderable number of Spa- 

 niards. But the inhabitants of all the other villages are univerfally Indians. 



The lands of this jurifdiftion are laid out in plantations like thofe of the former, ex- 

 cept that here are not fuch great numbers of fugar mills ; but this is compenfated by its 

 great fuperiority in manufadures, a confequence refulting from the multitude of Indians 

 refiding in its villages, who feem to have an innate inclination to weaving ; for befides 

 the fluffs made at the common manufactories, fuch Indians as are not Mitayos, or who 

 are independent, make, on their own account, a variety of goods, as cottons, carpets, 

 pavilions for beds, quilts in damalk work, wholly of cotton, either white, blue, or va- 

 riegated with different colours ; but all in great repute, both in the province of Quito 

 and other parts, where they are fold to great advantage. 



The method of fowing wheat and barley in this jurifdiClion is very different from 

 that ufed in any of the former ; for, inftead of fcattering the feeds, as is commonly prac- 

 tifed, they divide the ground, after it is plowed, into feveral parts by furrows, and 

 along the fides of them they make little holes a foot diflant from one another, putting 

 five or fix corns into each. However tedious this may be, it is abundantly made up to 

 the farmer by the uncommon increafe, which is ufually above a hundred fold. 



This jurifdi6lion has a great number of fluds of horfes, and multitudes of black cat- 

 tle, from whofe milk large quantities of cheefe are made. This country is happily fitu- 

 ated for paflure, being every where watered with an infinite number of rivulets. It has 

 alfo large flocks of fheep, though thefe feem to be negleded, in comparifon of the 

 others. 



The village of Cayambe flands in the middle of a fpacious plain, at the end of which 

 is the foot of the mountain Cayamburo, one of the largefl mountains of the Cordilleras 

 in this part of the country, being equal in height to that of Chimborazo, and its fum- 

 mits covered with fnow and ice. Its altitude is fo much greater than the reft between it 

 and Quito, that it may be plainly feen from that city. The vicinity of this mountain 

 renders the whole plain of Cayambe cold, which is increafed by the violence and con- 

 tinuance of the winds. In the territories of this jurifdidion are two lakes, one called 

 San Pablo, from a village of that name on its banks ; it is a league in length, and about 

 half a league in breadth. This lake is every where furrounded with a fpecies of rufhes, 

 called there Totoral, among which are vaft flocks of wild geefe and gallaretes. This 

 lake receives its water from the mountain of Mojanda, and from it iflues one of the 

 branches of the Rio Blanco. The other lake, which has nearly the fame dimenfions as 

 the former, is called Cuichocha, and is fituated in a plain on the fide of a mountain of 

 the fame name. Near the middle of this are two iflands, both which abound with wild 

 cuyes, a fpecies of rabbits and deer, which often fwim to main land ; but, when pur- 

 fued by the hunters, difappoint them by gaining the lake, and fwimming back to their 



retreat. 



