the South Sea. 14^ 



Then nine Leagues to Calama, a Village of ten or twelve Calama M : 

 Indians ; two Leagues Ihort of it, they* pafs through a 

 Wood of Algarro'vos^ or Carobs, being a Kind of Tama- 

 rinds. 



From Calama to Chiouchiou, or the Lower Atacama, fix chiouchkm 

 Leagues being a Village of eight or ten Indians, 17 Leagues vuuge. 

 South from the Upper Atacama, where the Corregidor, or 

 chief Magiftrate,- of Cobija refides. 



From Chiouchiou to Lipes is about fixty Leagues, which Defm Roal 

 are travel'd infeven or eight Days, without meeting any 

 Dwelling i and there is a Mountain of twelve Leagues, 

 without Wood or Water, to be pafs'd. 



Lipes is a Place of Mines, as the Spaniards call it AJfi- Lipes Mne& 

 ento, that is Settlement, which have for many Years yielded 

 much Silver j without reckoning the Settlements of other 

 leffer Mines in the Neighbourhood, as Efcala, Aquegua, 

 andy. Chriflopher^ where there are fix. Lipes is divided into 

 two Parts, at leaft half a Quarter of a League diftant from 

 each other,- the one call'd Lipes, and the other Guaico. q u2l[cQ) 

 Inthefe two Places, including the People that work at thz Mines. 

 Bottom of the Hill where the Mines are, there may be a- 

 "bout 800 Perfons of all Sorts. That Hill is in the midft 

 between Guaico and Lipes, all full of Mouths of Mines ; 

 one of which is fo deep, that they came to the Bottom of 

 the Rock, under which there was Sand and Water, which 

 they calPd the Antipodes. 



From Lipes 10 Potofi is about feventy Leagues, which 

 they travel in fix or feven Days, without meeting in all 

 that Way above two or three Indian Cottages. 



Potofi is that Town, fo famous throughout all the World ?otoil7mr* 

 for the immenfe Wealth formerly drawn from thence, and anci M*™ 1 * 

 ftill taken out of the Mountain, at the Bottom of which it 

 Hands : There are reckon'd to be above 60000 Indians 

 and 10000 Spaniards, or Whites; the King obliges the 

 Neighbouring Pariflies to fend thither a certain Number 

 of Indians yearly, to work at the Mines, which is calFd 

 Mita. The Corugidorcs, or chief Magiftratcs, caufe them 



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