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500 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
The abbreviations made use of in the map are :
C for Cerro (mountain), Cord a for Cordillera (ridge),
Mont" for Montana (forest), A for Arroyo (rivulet),
L a for Laguna, and C a for Cocha (lake), Far" for
Farallon (peak or promontory), H a for Hacienda
(farm), and C 1
for Corral (cattle or sheep-fold).
Mule-tracks (called by the innocent natives
"
roads are ") represented by double red lines, and
footpaths by single lines. I have copied them by
dotted lines.
Having now passed in review the principal
physical features of the district, let us return to the
Derrotero of Valverde, of which the following is a
translation. The introductory remark or title (not
in very choice Castilian) is that of the copyist :
" The '
Derrotero' or Guide to the Hidden Trea-
sure of the Incas. Translated by Richard Spruce."
TITLE
GUIDE OR ROUTE WHICH VALVERDE LEFT IN SPAIN,
WHERE DEATH OVERTOOK HIM, HAVING GONE
FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF LLANGANATI, WHICH
HE ENTERED MANY TIMES, AND CARRIED OFF A
'
i.REAT QUANTITY OF GOLD ;
AND
THE KlNG
COMMANDED THE CORREGIDORS OF TACUNGA
AND AMBATO TO SEARCH FOR THE TREASURE :
WHICH ORDER AND GUIDE ARE PRESERVED IN
(>\E OF THE OFFICES OF TACUNGA
THE GUIDE
Placed in the town of Pillaro, ask for the farm
of Moya, and sleep (the first night) a good distance
above it ; and ask there for the mountain of Guapa,