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BooK
IX.
Royal
Commentaries.
CH -A P.
Of the
Hogs;
and theii- g;-eat
Increafe.
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T the beginning Hogs wére much dearer t-han Goats, th(Íugh there was no
fet price~de for them.
Peter de Ciefa)n
~is 1.6th <:;hapt(!r of the
~e~
m~rks or Obfervauons ,of the Provinces óf
Peru,
faith, T:hauhe Ma,reibal
Don
Géorge Robleda
boughc :rmongft the Goods of
Chrift.opher de ,4J4la, ,
a
Sow anda Pig
at ch~ price of-one thoufand fix hündred Pieces,of Eight. And farther he faith,
Thªt chis
~
was
eaten fome few days afrer in rhe Cicy of
Cali,
and was che chief
Emertainment ac a ,great Feaíl:; and thac
ic
was ordin~ry
co
QIJY
J~igs in.the belly
of che Sow
at
a hunclred Pieces of Eighc a
Pig;,
an·d fomecim~s rpore. ,
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chat
is
defüous to know the exceffiye
pcices
which the
Spaniard.s
·gave' fot
things in chofe ,days amongíl: themfelves, let hun. reªde che fore-mencion~d¡Chap–
ter,' and rhen he
will
fee at how·mean
a
race Golcl and_Si,lve( were el1e
en1ed incol)'lp¡irifon wich che Commodities of
Spain :
.~ bich p,roce.eqed Jrom .tbe ·
great.af-,
feétion which che
SP4njaras
bore
-to
their Native,S.oil, when'füíl: thcw.planted chem–
fe1v~.
io
che._New W'orld; fouhemthey neier,·fcrupled the·giv,ing_an}t gr_ice for
~he things which ~me from
-Spain,,
chat they inight
ea_c th~m, ;qr¡}:,n~ed chem, as
if
~hey had
~en
fo_necefiary'co human~ life, tbá.t no fubfil:lence.c0uld be witbout:
tqem.
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In the.year
1
5
60,
a
god,d Hog was worilict~n-J?ieces pf Eight at
Cq,:,ao,
and
nq,wmay
be
had for·fix or,fevea ;,iand were -it notJor' the Lara, whic;h, tbey fay,
is~good to cure rhe'.SG!b, or Múurain, ·to;whkh ,he Cartel ifrltbat Countrey·at'e
much fubjeét, rhey would be muchcheaper: And alfo tfie
Sp,miard1,
[Qr
w;intof
Oil
in thofeCoumries; havo liceoce ,to,drefs the\r M.ean with it on
Fridayi¡.
and
in
Lerit
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The Sows,,in
Per~ are
firangely"fru.iefull
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fot
in-~he·year -¡ 558,
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rem.e.tn~r:có
have feen
in
nhe.Market of
.Penu
two Sows, wich thircy cwo Pigs, each of them
having broughc forth fixteen Pigs·at one farrowing; and when
I
faw thern, they
mighc
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of aMonth old; an
d yec chey were fdfat and-ílick, that onewould
wonder how it were poffible for che.Daros.to maiht<l41 and füekle fo many ofthem
fo
fuch good pligh1; ,and <;ondition.
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The
lndiaxs-give
che Name of
Cuchi
to che Hggs, which is aword they have
framed from
Coche, Coche
which the
Spaniards
~ter, when they fpeak
to
their
Hogs.
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