Pedro Cieza de Leon, who says: "The
people of this province is willing, bellicose, different from the past. Has a
very brave throughout this valley and mountains river passes a spacious through
him. And many other streams and fountains, where they make salt, admiration and
hazañosa thing to hear. And many of them there are in the province speak later
when the speech I shall give us the work place. The lords and chieftains have
big houses and doors put some fat rods of these parts, which seem small beams,
placed on them have many heads of their enemies. When you go to war, with sharp
flint knives, or a bark or reeds reeds shells, they cut the heads that turn. And
deaths dark cutting off others give some members as usual, to eat which then
putting their heads as I said, at the top of the reeds. These rods have put
some tables, where they carve the figure of the devil, very fierce, humanely,
and other idols and figures of cats, whom they worship. "When they need
water or sun to cultivate their land, call (according to the same natural
Indians say) helps these gods. Speak with the devil that are marked for this
religion, and are great soothsayers and sorcerers, and measured in wonders and
signs and keep the superstition that the devil sends them both is the power it
has had on the Indians, our Lord God permitting for their sins and for other
cause he knows. They said when we walked languages with Mr. Juan de Vadillo,
the first time I discovered that the chief lord of them, who had Cauromá name,
had many idols of those that seemed to stick, of fine gold, and claimed that
There was such an abundance of this metal, which pulled from a river this man
how much he wanted. The land is much food to give fertile corn and roots they
planted fruit trees .. there are hardly any, and if there are few. At the back
of them, towards the Eastern part is a province called Cartama (Marmato).
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