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vvere C1mels in
Peru
at th~c time, ápd,nóvv ·alfo there are very fevv;
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firíl:
Man ( and as I think che laíl:
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-that brought chem thither vvas
'/ohn de Reynaga,
a Noble Perfon, born at
Bilbo,
I V.vas vvell acquliinted vvicH
hirn;
vvhen he vvas .Capcain of a Foot Company againll
Fránci. Hernande:t- Giron,
and
his follovvers, and did his Majeíl:y good Service in chac Aél:ion; for one Male and
fix_Female Camels
Don Pedr,o Portocarrero
gave him feven thoufand Pieces ofEghc,
vvhich make
8400
Ducats; bue the Camels have·rnade little increafe there.
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The firft Afs tbat
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ever favv vvichin the Dominions·of
Couo
vvas in the Year
1557.
he was fold in the Cicy of
Huamanca
for four hundred and eighty Ducats,
and bought by my M:iíl:er
Garr¿ilaf{o de /a "flega,
with intention
to
get Mules by him
upon his Mares.
In
Spain
fuch an Afs would noc have yielded
{ix
Ducats, for
he
was lean and litcle; bue afterwards
Gafper de Sote/o,
wieh whom I had acquaincance,
bought anocher, which coft him eighe hundred and fourty Ducats ;· bue afcer that
time many Mules of boch Sexes have been bred there, which have been fpoiled
and j:rded upon the íharp rocks ofchofe ways.
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At what price che Goats were valued, when they were fuft broughc thicher, I
cannot tell, yee fome years afcerwards I rernernber-chey were fold for an hundred
and an hundred ,and ten Ducacs a Goat; bue chefe were noc cornmonly broughc
to market, bue fg,ld
e friend to anoth~r a their inftance, and defire to ob.
lige th€m eherewith;
then chey would t• ten or twelve ofthem in
C!jlples
to-
gether, chat they mig
not íl:ray from each ocher. That which I fpeal{ of now
was in
Couo,
in the Year
1544.
and
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bue fince that time they have
fo
ín–
a:_eafed, as to become of fmall value, unlefs for their Skins; for the She-goats
did
ofcen bring forth three or four Kids at a time, as I have feen; and a certain
Gen–
tleman, who lived
in
HHanacu,
did aílure me, that he had feen feveral that
brou&ht
(orch five Kids at one yeaning.
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