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time, to engage in the tasks requisite for the planting of the portions of ground 

 which may be allotted to them, it is essential that the sub-delegates should have 

 them enregistered, and keep them under a stridl restraint. These poor families 

 may be subsisted, at the commencement, on tne salted meats and maize with 

 which the college of Ocopa is enabled to supply them, from the alms it collefts, 

 until they can gather the first fruits, consisting of beans, squashes, maize, sweet 

 potatoes, and mani, all of which come to maturity in the space of four months. 

 With these resources they may be enabled to reach the end of the year, when their 

 lands will supply them with an abundance of plantains, yucas, and other produc- 

 tions. They should afterwards be obliged to form plantations of sugar-canes, coca, 

 and cotton •, and, in exchange for these commodities, the inhabitants of the sur- 

 rounding districts will supply, as they did before the insurredtion, cattle, brandy, 

 cloths, working tools, &c. The new settlers may themselves rear goats, hogs, 

 fowls, and other animals, with which they will enjoy a greater share of prosperity 

 than in the mountainous territory, and will proportionably be better enabled to 

 discharge the tribute. 



ENTRANCE INTO THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRITORY, FROM JAUXA, BY COMAS AND 



ANDAMARCA. 



The Cordillera of the Andes is not, perhaps, in any part so inaccessible, as in 

 the entrance from Jauxa, by Comas and Andamarca ; seeing that it is necessary to 

 cross three difficult branches, the continual precipices presented by which, and the 

 great number of morasses, having their surfaces frozen, encountered in the interven- 

 ing spaces, render the road in a manner impassable. This is the reason why, at the 

 time of the first entrances made by this route, the opening of a track for the pas- 

 sage of cattle was' deemed imprafticable. It thus happened that the travellers were 

 reduced to the necessity of carrying the provisions on their shoulders, with incre- 

 dible labour and fatigue. The wish, however, to contribute to the salvation of 

 the Indians residing in- the mountainous territory, many of whom were accus- 

 tomed to pay a visit, in the summer season, to the town of Andamarca, with the 

 pious view of submitting to the baptismal ceremony, stimulated the venerable 

 father Biedma to overcome these difficulties, apparently invincibl'e. This truly 

 apostolical man, after having dedicated his fervent zeal to the conversion of the 



Panataguas 



