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O/ Sheep, .ami -fume Cats.
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T
HE Sheep ~f
Caftile,
which we call fo, to .diílinguifh them from chofe of
Peru,
to
which the
Spaniard1.,improperly
give the Narné of Sheep, fince
they are neicher like th€m in íhape, nor colour, nor any thing elfe
as
we have
íhéwn i
1
its due place: Theíe Sheep,
I
fav,,
of
Caft.ile,
I
know noc t-vhen chey were
ffríl:
impm-téd into
PerR,
nor by whom ; the
firft
tnat
I
ever
fa\v
were in t_he'Fields
abotj&•Couo,
in thé year
1556,
and were then fold, one with another, at the tace
of
fótt1/
Pieces of Eight a head, and fome of the prime fort
at
fifcy ;
and were
bóught .~hen both
fot
love and money, as the Goats at
firfi
were.
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In
the year
1
560,
when
I
departed from
Cowo,
M1.mon was nót -ás yet fold
if1
the Shamblts by weight : bue fine~ by Letcers frorn .chence datéd,
in ché year
1
5
9q,
tf.iey wr,ite
me
that a Sheep was chen fold in the Market for eight
Ryals.ofEighc,
ór-tien at moíl: ; a_Qd in eight years time fince, Sheep are fallen r
o four l)llcacs a
head; and uader
~
and-now at prefent are fo cornmon, and
in
(ucn munbers., thar
tñey are worth very!little ; for an Ewe commbnly bJings forch
·rwó
at a cirrfé, .ahcl
ofren three: their,
W
ooJ
alfo
is
8r@duced in•that quamicy, cfiat it is
~f
httlé valú~,
ahd
ts
flot wotth above three or f@ur Rya)s a quarcer of a húodred ;
I
know
ñl:>t
if•they
have l~amed
ás
yet to
maké
Wearhers
of
chem.
Tbere are
no W0l\tes
in chofe Coumri~, nor ever were; por will chey be thought worthy to
be
·crant
porced tbithél', unl€fs they wére more pr@fitable, and betcer conditióned.
.Nór hncf the
Jndíans
HoufeJCats< before the rnming in
of
th~
SpanJards,
chough
now they have th'ém,
lmp
call
ther:n:Micitu,
whkh is a word cliey have fi-alfted
:ftorµ the
SpantmJj,
whorh rhey have heard t<>eall rhem~
,
Mi~.
Tbis,' I
lay,
to reótlfie che mifiake
of
fome.S,Mniardr,
who wete of opinioo, that the
¡,,j¡.,¡Ju
had Cats before the time that the
Spaniard1
~me
amongíl: them, becatñe the:v.-hed
in thtif Language a próp@t' N~me
for
them : And in like ma;nner a c;'.ertain Hillo–
rian argues, th~t they had H<rns before the time of che
SpaniarqJ,
becaufe
chey
gave diem the Name of
Gualpa :
Ahd this wóuld féem a moft convinciñg Argu–
meifle
to fuch who know noc .che deduétion, 01',9(cafion
1
,
o[)! wi'íkh rthis Name
of
Gualpa
was giv'eh; wfüch inde@d
is
hot
Gualpa,
bue
Atahualpa ;
and hereon de–
pends a lTIQíl: pleafan( Sc_ory, whifh we !hall recount, when
wé
come ro creac of
Tal\ÍeFovvl, which wer,e not
,ín
Peru
before che time of che
'Spaniar1/J.
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