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HIDDEN TREASURE 507
" Sublevacion cle los Indies- - Salto de
remark,
Guzman," giving us to understand that the exploring
party had barely crossed the river when the Indians
rose against them, and that Guzman himself re-
passed the river at a bound. These were probably
Indians taken from the towns to carry loads and
work the mines ; they can hardly have been of the
nation of the Curarayes, who inhabited the river
somewhat lower down.
A little north and east of the Anteojos there is
another route running a little farther northward and
passing through the great morass of Illubamba, at
the base of Los Mulatos, where we find marked El
Atolladero (the Bog) cle Guzman, probably because
he had slipped up to the neck in it. Beyond this
the track continues north-east, and after passing the
same stream as in the former route, but nearer to its
source in the Inca's Fountain, there is a tambo called
San Nicolas, and a cross erected near it marks the
place where one of the miners met his death (Muerte
de Romero). Another larger cross (La Cruz de
of a basaltic
Romero) is erected farther on at the top
mountain called El Sotillo. At this point the track
enters the Cordillera de las Margasitas, and on
reaching
a little to the east of the meridian of
Zunchu-urcu, there is a tambo with a chapel, to which
is appended the remark, " Destacamento de Ripalda
the fact
y retirada per Orden Superior." Beyond
thus indicated, that one Ripalda had been stationed
there in command of a detachment of troops, and
had afterwards retired at the order of his superiors,
I can give no information.
There are many mines about this station,
especially those of Romero just to the north, those