The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

Royal Commentaries. ,, .. ~ "' r e El A P. X VIII. • • 1 Of the 'ttt11~ Zs~ Alfes, Goats; o[the prices of ~hem; a;ul·of . ·, r their g'reat lncreare. i '; oJ 'J' , ) j • • 'J •'• .fa ·r.¡ rb l 1 V r. 'No R were C1mels in Peru at th?t time, apd,nóvv ·aJfo there.are very fevv; che firíl: Man ( and as I think che laíl: ~--that brought them thither vvas '¡ohn de Reynaga, a Noble Perfon, born at Bilbo, I Y.vas vvell al:quliinted vvicH hirn; vvhen he vvas Captain of a Foot Company againft Fráncu Hernande:t- Giron, artd his follovvers, and did his Majeíl:y good Service in that Aél:ion; for one Male and fix.Female Camels Don PedroPortocarrero gave him feven thoufand Pieces ofEght, vvhich make 84qo J!ucats; bue che Camels have·made little increafe rbere. · The firíl: Afs tbat I ever favv vvichin the Dominions·of Co~co vvas in che Year 1557. he was fold in che Cicy of Huamanca for four hundred and eighty Ducats, and boughc by my M:iíl:er Garrilaf{o de Ja Pega, with intention to get Mules by hi,m upon his Mares. In Spain fuch an Afs would not have yielded íix Ducacs, for he was lean and little; but afterwards Gafper de :Sote/o, with whom 1 had acquaincance, boughc another, which coíl: him eight hundred and fourty Ducacs ;· but afrer that time many Mules of both Sexes have been bred there, which have been f poiled and j:tded upon che íharp rocks of chofe ways. . At what price che Goats were valued, when chey were firíl: broughc thither, I cannot tell, yet fome years afterwards 1 rernember-they were fold for an hundred and an hundred ,and ten Ducats a Goat; but thefe were not commonly broughc to market, but fold e friend to anotb~r a their infiance, and defue to ob- lige th€m therewith; then they would t• ten or rwelve of them in C!fiples co- gether, that tbey mig not frray from each other. That which 1 fpeal{ of now was in C0:t-co, in the Year 1 544. and --45'. bue fince that time they have fo in- creafed, as to become of fmall value, unlefs for their Skins; for the She-goacs did ofcen bring forth three or four K.ids at a time, as l have feen ; and a certain Gen- tleman, who lived in HHanacu, did aílure me, that he had feen feveral that brou&ht ~orch five K.ids at one yeaning. 1' 1 J )" CHAP. .·