. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. The Mine Pote/t, when dikover'd. 4*4- A M E<Kl C A. Chap. IV. getting out the Secret, it came to this Agreement between them, That they fliould both be Partners and fliare the Booty ; Gualpa was to keep the Vein, fince call'd The <%ich Vein, and Guanca was to have another, at prefent nam/d Diego Centeno : but they agreed not long ; for Guanca finding much labor Upon his Vein, by reafon of the hardnefs, and that he could get no fhare in what Gualpa got, acquainted his Spanifh Mafter Vtlaroel with it, who refted not till he had found out the truth there- of ; for which Vilaroel obtain'd (according to the Cuftom of Torco) feveral Rods to work for himfelf, onely paying the King one fifth part of what he got, and fo re- main'd Owner of the Mine Centeno. This Difcovery of the rich Mine Totofi is faid to have hapned on the twenty fourth of April, Anno 1545. Soon after which they found the Silver Vein DelEftanno, which though it was very rich, was difficult to be digg'd, becaufe of its hardnefs. The firft Vein which Gualfa fearch'd after flood upright from the bottom of the Mine, and contain'd above three hundred Foot in length, and thirteen in breadth, and continuing good for two hundred Foot in depth, after which the Silver begins to leiTcn. The Peruvians relate, That the Ingas firft began to dig in Totofi, but gave it over becaufe the
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