[138] Declaracion de todo lo que contiene la demonstracion hecha por los Vehedores Don Juan Eusebio Ximenes, y Don Valentin Calderon de la Barca, de Orden Real, a Cancharani, Laycocota la alta, y Laycocota la baja, sus situaciones y vetas, desde la villa de Puno en distancia a una legua a cuya falda esta la gran laguna de Chucuito, 1718. MS. Report at Puno, with a map, which has unfortunately been lost.
[139] The men who broke out the ores with picks got 5 rials a day; and 6 men worked out 6 to 8 cwts. of mineral daily, working 12 hours. The rest of the workmen got 4 rials a-day
[140] A small shrub (Baccharis Incarum) often covering the hills.
[141] It yields about 30 per cent. of silver.
[142] In 1845 Bustamante placed the value of the exports at 2,500,000 dol.!
[143] From the Geografia del Peru. Lima, 1859.
[144] An Englishman had a schooner on the lake, but I believe she is now abandoned or broken up; and there is no craft at present but the reed balsas.
[145] The Peruvian Government answered this decree in a noble spirit, by declaring that they would not retaliate, but, on the contrary, would assist commercial traffic between the two countries by every means in their power. Linares rescinded his barbarous edict on October 17th.
[146] All the bark shipped at Islay is smuggled across the Bolivian frontier; Arica is the recognised port of Bolivia; and the bark exported from Payta comes from the neighbouring republic of Ecuador.
[147] Evaporation, however, goes on at all seasons, owing to the excessive elevation of the waters.