44* A M E%1 C A. Chap. IV. 



eafily have kept off the Hollanders ; for the Vice.Roy LudoYico Velafco inform'd of 

 Spilbergens Arrival, had ftor'd the Place with Ammunition and Men whofe Cou- 

 rage failing, prov'd fuccefsful for the Hollanders, who whileft they Rid here at an 

 AnchQr 3 took a very ftrange Bird on the Ifland Lobos, lying before Payta, being two 

 Yards high and three thick, in its Bill, Wings, and Claws refembling an Eagle, and 

 having a large Creft on its Head. Not long after Donna Paula being GoverneVs of 

 Payta, a Lady famous in Peru for her Beauty and obliging Nature, fent Cabbages, 

 Oranges, Cittrons, and other Provifions to the Hollanders, and requefted the Re- 

 leafement of fome of the Spaniards taken in the Engagement againfl Mendo^a, but 

 could not obtain her Requeft from the uncourtly Dutchmen. 



Defcription 

 of Los Qttixts 



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Sect. III. 



Los Quixos. 



The CamU 



< roit. 



The Grin*- 



Towns and 

 Places of 

 thief pote. 



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He Province of Los Quixos lieth South, and to the South.Eaft of Quito, being 

 border'd more diredly Eaftward with a part of the Province of Guiana, 

 call'd by fome El Dorada, or The Golden Countrey - on the South it hath Lima 

 and Cufco. 



This Province is fubdivided into feveral lcffer Territories, ^ Canela, Pacomores] 

 znd St. Juan de Salinas. Canela is fo call'd, becaufc it hath many great Woods^ 

 which produce the Fruit Canela in great abundance, the Owners whereof were moft 

 inhumanely dealt with by the Spaniard*, for Gonfalvo Pi^arro fuppofing to get ftore 

 of Gold there, found nothing but Trees, bearing a Fruit like Olives, by the Na- 

 tives call'd Canela, with which they us'd to drive a great Trade, being otherwife 

 poor and fimple People, living in Huts, which Pi^arro pulling down, caus'd the 

 Inhabitants to be torn in pieces by his Dogs, becaufc they could not furnifh him 

 with Gold, nor direft him where it was to be had, 



Befides the Qamla-Hxtz, this Countrey alfo produceth in gftat plenty the Tree 

 which beareth the Apples Granadilla, exceeding good againft burning Feavers 5 the 

 Leaves are like Ivy, the Bloflbm refembling the Sun, and the long Leaves fpeckled 

 with Red and White, open three hours after Sun-riling, and clofe again before the 

 Evening, juft as if Nature took care to preferve the beauty of the Flower. 



In this part of the Province the chief are, i. Bae^a, otherwife call'd Quixos, built 

 in the Year i jyo. by Pjmires de JVdd, eighteen Leagues from Cufco. 



2. Archidona, twenty Leagues to the South-Eaft of Sae^a. j.Avila. 4. SeVUla 

 del Oro, all of them Spanijh Colonies. 



The Territories Pacomores and Tguanfongo, otherwife call'd The Qountrey of Juan de 

 Salinas, are faid both to extend above a hundred Leagues in length, and little lefs in 

 breadth. The Fields afford ftore of Pafturc for Cattel, the Ploughed Lands produce 

 Wheat and all forts of wholfom Herbs ; and in fome places are alfo rich Gold- 

 Mines. 



The Governor 1*70/4 built four Towns here, rife uVdadolid . 1. Loyola . }.San 

 JagodehsMontanas^ and ^.Caruma. 



The Jefuit Ac$a relates, That not far from Camma he found great Stones, fome 

 of which were full of Golden Veins, but were hard to be cut from the Rock. Moft 

 of the Gold is found in the Sand of feveral Rivers, the chiefeft whereof flow through 

 Quito, Hew Granada, Valdiyia in Qhili y and Carayaya in Peru. 



On the Point of Quito, theRiver San J ago falls into the Southern Ocean • the 

 Ground in the Mouth of the River being very uneven, for oftentimes the Shipsare 



fall 



