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BooKIX.
HAP.
XV III.
Of the Camels, A/fes.,
Goats; of
the prices
of
thenz;
a11d of
their
great
lncreafe.
N
0 R vvere Camels
in
Peru
ai:
that time,
and
novv alfo there are very fevv,
the
firfr
Man (
and as
I
think the lafi)
that
brought them thither,
vvas
fohn de
Reynaga,
a
Noble Perfon, born
at
Bilbo,
I
vvas vvell acquainted
vvith him
1
vvheo he vvas
Captain
of a Foot Company againft
Francu Hernande;::.
Giron,
and
his
follovvers, and did his
Maje.fry
good Service
in
tbatACtion; for one Male
and
fix
Female Camels
Don Pedro Portocarrero
gave
him
feven thoufand
Pieces
of
Eight,
vvhich make
8400
Ducacs;
but the Camels have made little increafe there.
The
full:
Afs
that
I
ever
favv
vvithin
the
Dominions of
Couo
vvas
in
the
Year
1
s
S'
7.
he was fold
in
the City of
Huamanca
for
four hundred and eighty
Ducacs,
and bought by my Mafier
Garfilajfo
de
la
Pega,
with intention to get Mules by
him
upon
his
Mares.
In
Spain
fucn an
AfS
would not have yielded
fix
Ducats, for he
was lean and little; but afterwards
Gafper
de
Sotelo,
with whom
I
had acquaintance,
bought another, which coft
him
eight hundred and
fourty
Uucacs;
but
after
that
time many Mules of both Sexes have been bred there,
which
have been fpoiled
and jaded upon the iliarp rocks of thofe ways.
At what price the Goats
were
valued, when they were
firft
brought
thither,
I
cannot tell, yet fome years afterwards I remember they were fold
for
an hundred
and an hundred and ten Ducats a Goat; but thefe were not commonly
brought
to
market, but fold by one friend to another at their inftance, and defire to ob–
lige
them
therewith; and then they would tie ten or twelve of them
in
couples
tcr
gecber, that they might not ftray from each other. That which I fpeak
of
now
was in
Co~o,
in
the Year
15'#
and
--45.
but fince that time they have fo
iCl–
creafed, as to become of
f
mall
value, unlefs for their Skins;
for
the She--goats
did
often bring
forth
three or
four
Kids
at
a
time,
as I
have feen; and
a
certain
Gen–
tleman,
who
lived
in
Huanacu,
did afiure me, that he had feen feveral that
broo~ht
forth
five Kids at one
yeaning.
CHAP.