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remark, " Sublevacion de los Indios — Salto de 
Guzman," giving us to understand that the exploring 
party had barely crossed the river when the Indians 
rose against them, and that Guzman himself re- 
passed the river at a bound. These were probably 
Indians taken from the towns to carry loads and 
work the mines ; they can hardly have been of the 
nation of the Curarayes, who inhabited the river 
somewhat lower down. 
A little north and east of the Anteojos there is 
another route running a little farther northward and 
passing through the great morass of Illubamba, at 
the base of Los Mulatos, where we find marked El 
Atolladero (the Bog) de Guzman, probably because 
he had slipped up to the neck in it. Beyond this 
the track continues north-east, and after passing the 
same stream as in the former route, but nearer to its 
source in the Inca's Fountain, there is a tambo called 
San Nicolas, and a cross erected near it marks the 
place where one of the miners met his death (Muerte 
de Romero). Another larger cross (La Cruz de 
Romero) is erected farther on at the top of a basaltic 
mountain called El Sotillo. At this point the track 
enters the Cordillera de las Margasitas, and on 
reaching a little to the east of the meridian of 
Zunchu-urcu, there is a tambo with a chapel, to which 
is appended the remark, " Destacamento de Ripalda 
y retirada per Orden Superior." Beyond the fact 
thus indicated, that one Ripalda had been stationed 
there in command of a detachment of troops, and 
had afterwards retired at the order of his superiors, 
I can give no information. 
There are many mines about this station, 
especially those of Romero just to the north, those 
