The bishop certified that there was the greatest wealth in the world; and that they had brought him from one hill a little red earth, of which the whole hill is composed, which was as much as they could put upon a silver platter.

They washed it, in his presence, and took out seven taes of gold, which amount to forty-four castellanos.

[50] He asserted that in every part of the hill the earth was all of this richness.

With all this information I went to Don Juan de Silva and told him what had happened, and how I had pacified the friars.

He agreed that we should go and discover it and said that he would go in person when he finished that expedition.