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and mouth, with fuch adivity, that without flacken*' 

 ing their pace, they often maim their purfuers : but 

 the mod remarkable property in thefe creatures is, 

 that after carrying the firft load, their celerity leaves 

 them, their dangerous ferocity is loft, and they foon 

 contradl the ftupid look and dulnefs peculiar to the 

 afinine fpecies. It is alfo obfervable, that thefe crea- 

 tures will not permit a horfe to live among them \ and 

 if one of them happens to ftray into the places v^'here 

 they feed, they all fall upon him^ and, without giving 

 him the liberty of flying from them, they bite and 

 kick him till they leave him dead on the fpot. They 

 are very troublcfome neighbours^ making a moil hor- 

 rid noife for whenever one or two of them begins to 

 bray, they are anfwered in the fame vociferous man- 

 ner by all within the reach of the found, which is 

 greatly increafed and prolonged by the repercuffions of 

 the vallies and breaches of the mountains, 



11. The jurifdidion joining on the fouth to that of 

 St. Miguel de Ibarra, is called Otabalo in the jurif- 

 diftion of v/hich are the following eight principal vil- 

 lages or pariflies : 



I. Cayambe. V. Cotacache. 



IL Tabacundo. VI. San Pablo. 



III. Otabalo. VIi. Tocache. 



IV. Atontaqui. VIII. Urquuqui. 



The parilli of Otabalo is v^^ell fituated, and fo large 

 and populous, that it is faid to contain eighteen or 

 twenty thoufand fouls, and among them a confidera- 

 ble number of Spaniards. But the inhabitants of all 

 the other villages are univerfally Indians, 



The lands of this jurifdiclion are laid out in plants- 

 tions like thofe of the former, except that here are 

 not fuch great numbers of fugar mills ; but this is 

 compenfated by its great fuperiority in manufadlures^ 

 ^ confequence refulting from the multitude of Indians 



refiding 



