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Another copy of the work is to be found in the same archive, Charcas 134. Little is known about Capoche, though his signature and a document bearing on a lawsuit in which he became engaged on the period 1592-1594 are to be found in Archivo Nacional (Bolivia), Minas, no. 18. The writer is preparing this history for publication in the Biblioteca de Autores Espanoles. " 27 Copies of the manuscript are to be found in the Academia de la Historia (Madrid), the Archivo General de Indias, and the Convento de San Felipe in Sucre.
This system of forced labor came to be known as the mita, and around this institution swirled bitter controversy during all the colonial period. Viceroy Luis de Velasco complained in 25 PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF POTOSI 1597 that the greatest difficulty in the mines was the lack of Indian laborers on account of the constant opposition of ecclesiastics and lawyers. 8o At one time in the second half of the seventeenth century Viceroy Conde de Lemos, a great friend of the Indians who carried on the Las Casas tradition, actually was able to obtain a temporary prohibition of the mita.
362-381. Several English translations of El arte de los metales have appeared, the latest by Ross E. Douglass and E. P. Mathewson (New York, 1923). 49 NOTES "The lakes of Potosi," The Geographical Review, XXVI (1936), pp. 529-554. , p. 534. 84 Maffei-Figueroa, Apuntes para una bibliografia espanola, II, pp. 193 ff. 8S Disposiciones complementarias de las leyes de Indias, III (Madrid, 1930), pp. 261262. On Carrillo, see Archivo Nacional (Sucre). Minas, no. 1060. 66 The Huancavelica Mercury Mine, chaps.