Excerpted from: Ulloa, Antonio de and Jorge Juan. 1748. Relación histórica del viaje a la América meridional. Madrid : Antonio Marin.

For recent publication, see: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1990. Viaje a la América meridional. Cronicas de America 59a, ed. Andreés Saumell, 2 vols. Madrid: Historia 16, pp. 63-64.

English translation adapted from Ulloa, Antonio de. 1807. A Voyage to South America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, etc. on that Extensive Continent, trans. John Adams, 2 vols, fifth edition. London: John Stockdale, vol. 2: 47-8.

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Acosta de Arias Schreiber, Rosa María. 1997. Fiestas coloniales urbanas (Lima-Cuzco-Potosí). Lima: Otorongo.

Curcio-Nagy, Linda. 2004. The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Solano Francisco de. 1987. Antonio de Ulloa y la Nueva España. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.