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the fame manner as it is made with maize. This ju- 

 rifdiclion belongs to the aucjience of Charcas. 



XIV. About fixty leagues from Cufco, on the 

 ' borders of the Moxos, which are miflions of the 

 Jefuits, are others called Apolo-bamba, belonging 

 to the Francifcans. Thefe confift of feven towns of 

 Indians newly converted, and who having received 

 the dodrine of the gofpel, have abandoned Uic fa- 

 yage manner in which they formerly lived. In or- 

 der to render the miiTionaries more refpe6led by the 

 Indians, and at the fame time to defend the latter 

 from the infults of their idolatrous brethren, a ma- 

 jor general is pofted here, who is both a civil and 

 military officer, adminiftring juflice, and command- 

 ing in chief the feveral bodies of militia formed by 

 the inhabitants of thefe towns and villages. 



IV. Diocefs of the Audience of Lima. 

 Arequipa. 



The city pf Arequipa was founded in 1539 

 order of Don Francifco Pizarro, in a place known 

 )Dy the fam.e name-, but this fituation being found 

 very difadvantageous, the inhabitants obtained per- 

 miflion to remove it to the valley of Quilca, where 

 -it at prefent (lands about twenty leagues diftant from 

 the fea. The lands in its dependency having been uni? 

 ted to the empire of the Yncas by Maita Capac, the 

 goodnefs of the foil and the purity of the air inr 

 duced that monarch, for the farther improvement of 

 the country, to draw 3000 families from fuch adja- 

 cent provinces as were lefs fertile, and with thefe to 

 people four or five towns. 



This city is one of the largeft in all Peru, delightful- 

 ly fituatpd i^ a plain, and the houfes well built offbone, 

 and vaulted They are not all of an equal height, 

 though generally lofty, but commodious, finely de- 

 por<^.ted on the outfide, and neatly furniflied within. 

 The temperature of the air is remarkably good : 

 ^nd though fometi^ies a fmail froft is feen^ the cold 



