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the Indian Men and Women, upon Penalty to the Black 

 Males to have their Genitals cut-off, and the Females to be 

 feverely baftinado'd ; thus the Black Slaves, who in other 

 Colonies arc Enemies to the Whites, here take Part with 

 their Matters : However, they are not permitted to wear 

 any Weapons ; becaufe they might make an ill Ufe there- 

 of, as has been fometimes feen. 



The implacable Hatred this barbarous Behaviour has 

 drawn upon the Spaniards from the Indians, is the Reafon 

 why the hidden Treafures and the rich Mines, the Know- 

 ledge whereof they communicate to one another, remain 

 unknown and ufelefs to both of them ; for the Indians ufe 

 them not for themfelves, being fatisfy'd to live poorly by 

 their Labour, and in extreme Mifery. The Spaniards 

 fancy they enchant them, and tell feveral Tales of furpri- 

 zing Deaths befallen thofe who would have difcover'd 

 fome of them , as that they had been on a fudden found 

 -dead and ftrangled, to have been loft in Fogs, and taken 

 away in Thunder and Lightning ; but no great Account 

 is to be made of the Wonders they tell, for in Point of 

 Credulity they are meer Children. It is certain, that 

 the Indians know feveral rich Mines which they will not 

 difcover, for fear of being made to work in them, and to 

 the end the Spaniards may not make their Advantage of 

 them,, This has appcar'd feveral times, but more parti- 

 cularly in the famous Mine of Salcedo, a quarter of a 

 League from Puno, on the Mountain of Hijacota, where 

 they cut the MafTy Silver in a Body, with Chifels,- for 

 it was difcover'd to him by an Indian Miftris, who 

 was defperately in love with him. The Malice and the 

 Avarice of the Spaniards have produced Accufations againft 

 Salcedo, which caus'd him to be condemned to Death, upon 

 a falfe Sufpicion of revolting, becaufe he grew too great, 

 which occafion'd Civil Wars,about 5 o Years fince, about in- 

 heriting his immenfe Treafures -> but during thofe Debates, 

 the Mine was fo filPd with Water, that it could never fince 

 be 4rain'd, which the Spaniards look upon as a Judgment 



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