the South-Sea. 175* 



which they call Requas r mto feveral Ptarat y or fmall Parcels < 

 of 10 Mules each, which are committed to the Care of 

 two Men ; and there being fometimes 30 or 40 Leagues 

 to travel over high and fteep Mountains, without either 

 Water or Pafture, the Mules carry ? d to change and relieve 

 the others, are fometimes double the Number of the Piaras, 

 or .fmall Parcels loaded; notwithftanding all this Precau- 

 tion, fuch great Numbers of them die, that the Roads in 

 Peru are not better known by the Trail: of their Bepef* QefiruBim* 

 than by the Skeletons of thofe that tire out of the Vales, oj Mules. 

 where they can have nothing to fubfift on, for there is 

 fcarce ever any Grafs on Water - r for which Reafon they 

 are obliged every Year to bring 80 or 100000 Mules from 

 Tucumanmd ChiJ y to make good that continual Lofs. 



However, notwithftanding the Trouble of traveling thro* M° r * t0 

 thofe defart Places, the Inhabitants are not afraid of a *°' 

 Journey of two or three hundred Leagues. The Merchants 

 come to H/fo, from Cufco^Puno, Cbucuito^Arequipa^nd from 

 Moquegua, as to the neareft Sea-Port and if there are no 

 Ships at Arica, they alfo come from La Paz, Oruro, La 

 Plata, Potofi and Lipes ; fo that in fliort, this is the beft 

 Port in all the Coaft for European Commodities. 



The City oiCufco is one of the chiefeft for the Con-Cufco City?* 

 fumption of thofe Commodities, next to Potofi ; there are 

 reckon' d in it above 30000 Communicants, whereof near 

 three Quarters are Indiana Its Manufadures of Bays and 

 Cotton Cloth, are fome fmall Prejudice to the Trade of 

 Europe. They there alfo make all Sorts of Work in Lea- 

 ther, as well for the Ufe of Men, as for the Furniture of 

 Horfes and Mules. That City is alfo famous for the vaft 

 Number of Pictures the Indians there make, and wherewith 

 they fill all the Kingdom, as wretched as they are. It is 

 130 Leagues from H/fo, in a cold Country, where the Wea- 

 ther is fo uncertain, that they have all Sorts of it in one 

 and the fame Day. 



