[296] Memorial de cosas tocantes las minas de Caravaya. J. 58, p. 441. A very illegible manuscript in the national library at Madrid.
[297] Relacion del Conde de Castellar, p. 222.
[298] Relacion del Obispo Melchor Liñan y Cisneros, p. 299.
[299] This appears from the Informe of Diego Tupac Amaru, dated Azangaro, Oct. 18, 1781; in which he stipulates that the coca estate near San Gavan, in Caravaya, shall be granted to Mariano Tupac Amaru as his rightful possession, because it belonged to his father the Inca.
[300] Bosquejo, &c.
[301] There is one other town, or rather wretched village, on this Arctic plain, within Caravaya, called Macusani, about 30 miles north-west of Crucero.
[302] A Quichua poem was written on the Cura Cabrera, and his breed of paco-vicuñas, by Don M. M. Basagoitia. Rivero's Antiq. Per. 112-13.
[303] According to Don Pablo Pimentel. The people of Sandia told me 45,000 cestos, or 900,000 lbs.; and Lieut. Gibbon, U.S.N., in his work, says 500,000 lbs.
[304] These Chunchos of Caravaya belong to the same tribe as the fierce Indians of the Paucartambo valleys, for some account of whom see my former work, Cuzco and Lima, p. 272.
Don Pablo Pimentel calls the wild tribes of Caravaya Caranques and Sumahuanes, but I think this is a mistake. Garcilasso de la Vega mentions the Coranques as a fierce tribe to the north of Quito, who were conquered by the Inca Huayna Capac.—Comm. Real, i. lib. viii. cap. vii. p. 274.