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BooKIX.
Royal
e
ommentarie.s.
Olives mighc be engrafü:d on chofeTrees which the
lndians
cal!
fJ.!!ifhuar,
for both
rhe
Wooá
and the Lean is much like ao Olive; and
I
remernber when
I
was a
Boy, rhat I have often heard the
Sp_aniard1
fay,
thac Olives and Oil did proceed
from Trea like them; but che cruth
is,
ch~t Tree is barren, for though it cafis
· out
a
uaf
hke
che Olive, yec ic
foon
wichers and falls : for wanc of Canes we
dicl
ufüally
in
Co~co
make our
Dares
ofchat Wood; for Canes will not grow
in
fo
cold-
a Collntrey ás thar. ·
.
CH A P.
XXIX.
OJ their Ganl'en-Herbs, aml other Herbs, and of the great–
nefs
0/
them.
O
F
alhhe.cemmon Herbs,
and Plants,
andRoocs, ·which
are
eate¡:¡,
ie,Spain~
there was
none
in
Penu;
thac is
to
fay, Lcmuce, Radi~es, Turnips, Gadick,
Onions, 13eecs,
Spinage,
G0ards, Garden-CaFduus, Afparagus, and che
li!ke,
which
grow in
Spain,
onely there
was
Puríloim anal:Pennyroya1; nor of Se~©s htad they.
Peafe, or Beans, or Lentils, or Annifeed, or Mufiard-feed, cr Carroways, or
Rice, or Lavander, nor
many
other Herbs and Plaots.; nor haq- chey Rofr:s, or
Gillyflo,wevs o( various fores, as we hav~ in
Sp.ain.-,
n0r JafminCrs, n0i: onfuer odori–
ferous Flowers. ·
\:
·
J
·
.
Of
all chefe. Herbs and-Flowers which we have already named,.
a·nd
mány
bthers,.which
I
tannot now
call
to
rnhld,
1
tll.ere are I'lo,w
fuch
great quaAtities, and
whi.chdo n0;w abound to chat dégreé;.,'!!hao they
are
cumberfome ami perni~iQus
to ~heground, hiwing
fo
fpread and roote<d,thernfe1ves in fome Valliesl
tinae
d~ey
cannot be eradiated and defrroyed by the
Arr
and lndufiry ofMankind; and ha:.
vrng
.fo
ov~Mun fome VaHies; chac they have rooted out: the ancient name, arn;l
caufed chem
tO.
take that ofthe prevailing
W
eed, witnefs tihat
of
Rucma,
which
i$
now called che Valley of good Herbs up0n.the Coaíl.
In
the Cicy of'
los Reyes
the
foil:
Spinage
and
Endive which rhey fowed grew to tbat prodigious height,
that
a
Man eould
not
reaah the,top of i~.wloh
bis
1-:lánd, a!il<iÍ fo thick, that
a
Horfo
could not país thuough them ; amd all other
Herbs
grew to die
like
ranknefs and
far,geneís at the beginrµng r:in'like rnanliler 'Wheat in
n"Íanr
pans yields.thn~e hun-
tbed Bufhels for one.
1
,
.
, __ .
•
1
In
che VaUey·0f
MIMraH,
,]acely peopled
hy
a Co!oJ.lly whioh the Vic€-king
Don
H1trtado de Mndofa
fent thiolner, che
like
abundanrn was obforvable; for in th~
Y
ear
1
s
60.
being upon my
1
Voyag,e into
8pain
,
one of th~Inhabitants of thac
0:llony,
call.ecl..Garci' Tfa~que1t,
who had be~wa1St
?rvam:ro.rnyFadi1er,,
carried me
to bis Houfe,
where
atiSup¡ner he gave me fome
Bread, aad:uold me, ·rhat ic w,a.s
of chat Coro which had'yielcled himthr(fe-1hunclred for'0ner~nd'Jo
much
1
tellyou}
faid he,
that
YPH
m,v. reportit af'a'tr»th
ii9l'8pain; which wben,I feemed to aclmir€,
Gmrci
Ya~que:{,
aífured rn<!! ohác hnight-·belieye
i~,
for
.tlti.1
ul)ón'
the Faich
0f
a
Chriíl:ian he bad fowed no;mofe charrÍ:)?0 .Búflíels at1~
·ir..
half-ofWhCr:tt, a-r;1d that
~Y
had pradm:ecl
680
Bu~ls; whimwere heaped ioirbis:-.6raf!aty;
and
thac he
thQughc he had loíl: as
mudni.:more,:for
1wanc:df weople r<DJiatlíer
it
in. . ·
·
Once
I remember, thar:c~li
01g,~his
1
(to¡¡y
;t~ GoñfatoSif,/Je,{tref
of
wh0m
we háv@
made mencion in .oar Hiílony
,r.ofF/oisida; Jancl·íhall havl!,Yatthtr occafiot1""to name
him, when we fhall hav8 cied
ucedour ma.~cer
to·
his cim~, ifot! c;onfümitd th€ farríf,
and farrher aífored ,me, rhát i'fi•the Provfuce of
Chuquij}iéai ,:,{1
1
hich
is
11c::a-r
t0
th(il
River of
Pi!(gum,iyJJ,
aniil wherq¡ne hath fou e Lands, thar
~fue¡fiirfri
'&ear
b@
fowed
Wheat,
i~
}'!ielded·him fol!lti Jhunclnfol' Eu(h12ls
f@t
one.
lti:ilie-;Y@ar
í•f,5lf.'
wh®
l)q,;¡
G1trp4,de l)1endofa
went
Govev11om:i 1.i111r<!1
l!hi:JJ,
.and ~akí1igrth€
1
Po1it19f
:J4xica
in
bis way,
ic was told hirn, .
d'lac
in a cercaín'Valley, near wr.rhat plac@ icaAlefl
Ctt~
,
E
e e
·
fªPª,
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