Excerpted from Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela. 1965. Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí. Lewis Hanke and Gunnar Mendoza, eds. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, pp. 224–225. (c) University Press of New England, Lebanon, N.H. Reprinted with permission.

The English translation is taken from R.C. Padden, ed. 1975. Tales of Potosí by Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela. Frances M. López–Morillas, trans. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, p. 172. (c) University Press of New England, Lebanon, N.H. Reprinted with permission.

To read more:

Bakewell, Peter J. 1988. Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth–Century Potosí: The Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.

Mínguez Cornelles, Víctor. 1995. Los reyes distantes: Imágenes del poder en el México virreinal. Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I.