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AMERICA. Chap. Vll. 



bought, on condition they fhould pay the real fifth part of what they got, to the 

 SpaniJbfQng: which Priviledgc ftirr'd up many, infbmuch that AVmno in a fhort 

 time grew very populous. Thar r a, though havingbrought his Bufinefs to this pafs, 

 could not reft, but fen t Antonm Tacbeco to a Valley in Guadiana, to build the fore* 

 mentioned City Vurango, where feveral Rivers make a convenient and delightful 

 place for Habitation, whither Tvarra follow'd three Moneths after, and finifh'd the 

 new Town. But the chiefcft Silver Mines, which borrow their Denominations 

 from the Province Zacatecas y are continually guarded by five hundred Spaniards, 

 and as many Slaves. 



CHAP. VII. 



Bovnds of 

 New Bifcay. 



Towns and 

 Cities. 



N 



New Bifcay. 



Ew Bifcay , by fome accounted a Province of Nfi* Gallicia, hath on the South, 

 Zacatecas . on the Weft, the Countrey of Cinoloa - Northward it is boun- 

 ded with New Mexico j the Eaftfcrn Borders of it looking towards Florida, 

 not yet well difcover'd : fo call'd by the Spaniards, onely frotrvits neighborhood to 

 Hfto Gallicia. It is, as the other Provinces, exceeding rich in Silver Mines, and hath 

 fome alfo of Lead . which ferve principally, as fome fay, for the refining or pur- 

 ging of the other Metal. The People generally are of a ftout and refolute Difpo- 

 fition, and with much difficulty fubmitting to the Yoke • yea, the Spaniards them- 

 felves confcfs, that there remain yet to this day four great Towns unreduc'd, 

 though they lie, as it were, in the mid-way, betwixt the Zacatecas aforefaid,and the 

 Mines and Town of St. Barbara of this Province : The Spaniards call them Las Qua* 

 troCeinegas, or The Four Quagmires, as lying, perhaps, in the Marfties, or in fome 

 Fenny and lower parts of the Countrey. 



The Towns which themfelves hold, are, 1. St. Barbara, famous for the rich 

 Mines about it. 



2. St. Johns, equal to the other, and not above three or fou-r Leagues diftant 



from it. 



3. Ende, thcmoft Northerly Town which the Spaniards have in this Countrey, 

 diftant about twenty Leagues from the other. 



Thefe be all Colonies of the Spaniards, and built on purpofe for fecuring the 

 Mines*,, 'which when they Were firft difcover'd by Yvarra, he order'd ^oderigo del^jo 

 to guard the fame, and took up his Winter Quarters at St. Juan in a ftrong Houfe, 

 ftor'd with all manner of Pfovifions, and ereded there by him, as a place of de~ 

 fence againft the ChichitnecA, who (though the Spaniards kept the place with ftrong 

 Guards) kill'd above four hundred of their Horfes and Mules • which lofs no way 

 daunted him, fo as to change his Refolution of going to *tofia : whither travelling, 

 he found many fnowy Mountains, and fufFer'd cxtream Cold, which kill'd moft of 

 their Horfes; being feen fifteen days after to ftand fo ftiffly frozen, as if (till alive : 

 at laft getting within the Borders of Topia, after he had fuffer'd many inconveni- 

 ences, he was oppos'd by the Inhabitants, till he padfi'd them with Prefents. 



Sect. 



