XXVIII HIDDEN TREASURE 501 
from whose top, if the day be fine, look to the east, 
so that thy back be towards the town of Ambato, 
and from thence thou shalt perceive the three 
Cerros Llanganati, in the form of a triangle, on 
whose declivity there is a lake, made by hand, into 
which the ancients threw the gold they had pre- 
pared for the ransom of the Inca when they heard 
of his death. From the same Cerro Guapa thou 
mayest see also the forest, and in it a clump of 
Sangurimas standing out of the said forest, and 
another clump which they call Flechas (arrows), and 
these clumps are the principal mark for the which 
thou shalt aim, leaving them a little on the left 
hand. Go forward from Guapa in the direction 
and with the signals indicated, and a good way 
ahead, having passed some cattle-farms, thou shalt 
come on a wide morass, over which thou must 
cross, and coming out on the other side thou shalt 
see on the left hand a short way off a jucal on a 
hill-side, through which thou must pass. Having 
got through the jucal, thou wilt see two small lakes 
called " Los Anteojos" (the spectacles), from having 
between them a point of land like to a nose. 
" From this place thou mayest again descry the 
Cerros Llanganati, the same as thou sawest them 
from the top of Guapa, and I warn thee to leave 
the said lakes on the left, and that in front of the 
point or 'nose' there is a plain, which is the 
sleeping-place. There thou must leave thy horses, 
for they can go no farther. Following now on foot 
in the same direction, thou shalt come on a great 
black lake, the which leave on thy left hand, and 
beyond it seek to descend along the hill-side in such 
a way that thou mayest reach a ravine, down which 
