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in Winter. The unwholfom Air hereabouts occafions many Sicknefles. Amongft 

 other Fruits that grow in this County, is the Pytahaya, which whoe're eats, voids 

 Urine as red as Blood. Adjacent to it are the little Provinces Paucuran, To^p, and 

 (picara, which poffefs Golden Mines: alio the Territory Qarrapa, which hath high 

 and rugged Land, and many Rivulets : like wife the County Quimbaya, which a- 

 bounds with thick and long Canes, wherewith the Natives build their Houfes • in 

 the hollow Bodies of thefe Canes the wild Bees gather ftore of Honey ,• and amongft 

 them breed alfo exceeding great Lyons, the four-footed Beaft Chuca, which carries 

 its Young in a Bag,Stags,Rabbcts and Guadaquinajes, which being bigger than Hares, 

 are exceeding good Meat, The Mountain TS[eVada, wonderful high, and fmoaking 

 continually, produces the golden Rivers Tacurumbi 6c De la Cequo. Twenty Leagues or 

 more diftant from St.jf ago is, 7. Carthago } xhc chief City of Quimbayaes 7 znd by which 

 the aforefaid Rivers run. The temperate Climate here gives Health and long Life 

 to the Inhabitants, who havefeveral Fountains of fait Water, and the Fruit Caymito, 

 not unlike a Peach, black within, having little Kernels, and a Juice which Dyes 

 fo deep, that it can fcarce be wafli'd off. Horfes and Cows they have like wife very 

 plentiful. Carthago it felf Hands in a pleafant Plain between two Rivulets 5 the 

 Ways that lead to the fame are very dirty, becaufe of the continual Rain which 

 falls there, with Lightning and Thunder. A League beyond the City flows the 

 Stream Confota 5 near which lies a Lake, out of which Salt is made. 



8. The City Call, the Refidence for the Governor and Colle&or, lying under a 

 hot Climate in a plain Valley at a River, which falling from the Mountain, glides 

 to the Stream Uagdalena. Round about the fame dwelt antiently feveral People, 

 Yi^. the Gorrones, fo call'd, becaufe they nam'd a Fifh Gorron, the Cba?icos, Giants, 

 with long Faces and broad Foreheads,the Jarbacoas,Jgnales y and Los Timbas, inhabi- 

 ting among barren Mountains ; but moft of them were flain by the Spaniards, or 

 deftroy'd by one another, few onely efcaping to the tops of the Mountains. The 

 Countrey alfo fwarms with wild Beafts, which have alfo devour'd many of the 

 Inhabitants, both Indians and Spaniards. 



9. The Haven Bonaventnre, fituate in a deep Inlet, about which live fome Fa* 

 milies which fend the Commodities that come from New Spain to <Popayan y Cali, and 

 other Places . and though there be a Way along by the River Dagua, convenient 

 for Mules and Horfes to travel, yet it is feldom us'd, becaufe the Cattel are fo wea- 

 ried out with the long Journey, that they cannot go through with their Loads } 

 wherefore they employ the Indians to carry their heavy Burthens over the Moun- 

 tains, which they do for a fmall Reward. 



10. St. Juan de <Pafto, giving Denomination to the Countrey about it, and being 

 built on the pleafant Plains of the Valley Jtris, is fituate in a wholfom Climate, 

 and is moiftned by feveral Fountains and the River Jngafmayo, the Boundary of 

 Peru. The Spaniards have feveral Houfes here, and breed ftore of Cattel, and efpe- 

 cially Hogs. They have likewife Sugar-Mills, with which they make abundance of 

 Sugar. The antient Inhabitants were falvage, deform' d, and of little Reafon. 



11. Timana, giving Denomination to the Countrey about, is plac'd under a hot 

 Climate, yet the Inhabitants live long % they drive a great Trade with Thred fpun 

 out of the Herb Pita ; and alfo with Sweet-meats, Fruits Preferv'd with Honey and 

 Sugar, and efpecially a Kernel not unlike an Almond. In their Gardens they Plant 

 the Herb Qocoa, which they chew conftantly for the ftrengthning of their Hearts. 

 Near Pita is a Mountain with Load»ftones . and fomewhat farther the Habitations 

 of the valiant Ucones in the Valley Aquirya, thefae^es, <Pixaos y and Manipos, which 

 fo molefted the Spaniards, that they fore'd them to forfake the Towns Njyra, 

 St. Vincent, and Ville de los Jngelos. 



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