Chap. V. EXTENSIVE GOLD EEGION. 75 
feelings of the Indians of that region, had been obliged to 
retire from it. This circumstance Don Nazario Escoto had 
just reason to lament, as he had to leave some rich gold 
mines behind ; while speaking of these mines, he went to 
an adjoining room and returned with a little basket full of 
gold bars from that locality, which seems to form part of 
an extensive gold region, reaching from the sources of the 
Bluefield river northward to the valleys of the Upper 
Patook or Guayape, in Honduras. In the chapter con- 
taining the narrative of my trip to Chontales and Upper 
Mosquitia I shall return to this subject 
