134- A VOYAGE TO Boo^ IIK 



which, with the tribes of the inhabitants, ar.e here fub^ 

 joined. 



The cities are Panama, Porto Bello, and Santiago 

 ,de Nata de los Caveileros. The fituation of the latr 

 ter was firft difcovered, in the yea-r 1515, by captain 

 AJonzo Perez de la Riia, at which time Nata was 

 prince of this ^diftriift. Gafpar de Efpinofa was firft 

 .commiiTioned to people it, under the title of a town. 

 Il was indeed afrerwards taken and burnt by the In- 

 dians, but he rebuilt it, and called it a city. It is 

 large, but the chief houfes are only of earth, or vmburnt 

 bricks, and the others of mud walls. Its inhabitants 

 are a mixtvire of Spaniards and Indians. 



The town called los Sanios is a modern fettlement 

 pf Spaniards, who before lived at the city of Nata, 

 bur, with a view of augmenting their fortune by im- 

 proving the ground, left the city ; and the inhabi- 

 tants of the town are at prefent more in number than 

 thofe of Nata. Its environs were firfl difcovered by 

 Kodrigo Valen^uela, and at that time contained an 

 Indian town, governed by a prince called Guazan : 

 the origin of the town fuiliciently (liews it is peo- 

 pled by Spaniards and Indians. 



The number of villages in this province is very 

 coniiderable, and of different kinds. 



1. NuESTRA Senora de Pacora, to which we give 

 ihe preference, is inhabited by Mulattoes and their 

 defcendants. 



2. San Chrilloval de Chepo ow^es its name to the 

 caciques, or princes, Chepo and Chepauri^ and was 

 difcovered in 1515, by 'Fello de Guzman. Befides 

 Indians, here is a company of foot, belonging to the 

 garrifon of Panama, molt pf vvhorn ^re fettled here 

 )vith their families. 



Several Kancherias, or afiemblages of Indian 

 liuts, are under the jurifdidlion of a village, Thefe 

 Rancherias are fituated to the fouthward^ in the fmaU 

 civafms or breaches of the m.ountains. 



