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Panama, bordering on!., : : , C:osta Rica .. .:.. ;. . ...
lies the province of Chiriqtr, the
rie hsat of the sehven provinces up :- c.on- ol ,s
lies ghe provine of Cihiriqdoi, the m rr D o st
st'tutirg the Republic of Prnama.
Its nserth coast is washed v the
Caribbean sea, known to the Span
ish conquerors as the North sea, o te, - ,
while the island-dotted Pacific, or
South sea, washes its southern lli
shores. Twenty miles from the At
lantic side and 40 miles from the
Pacific is the highest crater of the ki, x d" or
"Volcan de Chiriqui" or Chiriqui phrsoao "dN wh e
volcano, rising nearly 12.000 feet I
above sea level. Two other craters of lesser Tisingal. d ,
height rise one on either side of the main crater; "Due to the hostility \
then a sheer drop of several thousand feet of sul- and cruelty of the Irdi- a ,c-'O",O , P
phur-coated rock to the highest signs of vegeta- ans. together with the
tion. Below this on the Pacific slopes stretch dangers of the trails and
beautiful rolling llanos or steppes, lower and the unhealthines of the PANAMA
lower, on down to the palm-fringed coast line. country, people gradu
Somewhere on these immense slopes lies the ally began to forget
lost mine of the Indians "Tisingal," known to about these mines and Cod CAB rEA
and worked by the early Spanish settlers, who whoever spoke of ma
changed its name to "La Estrella," or Mine of the king an expedition for . i.
Star. the purpose of discover
During the year 1833-34. in going through the consideredg theseo be comines was
archives at Cartago, Costa Rica, some official doc- o d
uments pertaining to this mine were found and it sid . - i
permission was obtained from the Costa Rican The slopes of the o1 T
government for their publication. Shortly there Chiriqui volcano are i P1,w4eMA tI t
after a company was formed in Cartago to send traversed by numerous d s
out exploring parties, and although considerable rivers, in many places p
time and money were wasted and several lives not more than a mile f
lost in an endeavor to locate this mine, no Indica- apart-wild, r u s h i n g
tions of its whereabouts were found. mountain torrents that a ti-e thCeC s eor atdA o
form navigable rivers
Reprints of some of the documents referred to
Rue pinton ofrsoe the rdos oc nt er eferinr edt near the coast, many of which are constantly the border line of Costa Rica and Chiriqui have al
hae come into the e hands of the writer, in which changing their courses. Along the banks of these ways been hostile and in several instances have
is preserved the old style Spanish in which they rivers the Spaniards found the richest Indian vii. risen against the whites and massacred them. The
were originally written during the sixteenth and
were originaly written during the sixteenth and lages. The Indians extracted gold from the Talamanca Indians, who still inhabit these parts,
seventeenth centuries. Translations of these pa- sands of madn of tiese rivers and worked It into were fspecially bellicose.
ipets have been maitde and the information con. weird figures representing alligators, frogs, birds. The existence of the "Tiseingal" mine has never
taed toeretin summarized, to whpich have been turtles, fish, snakes, bells, plates, images and been doubted, nor is it considered the product of
added daa obtah ined through a personal acquaints o others, hich it was the custom to bury with the the fertile imagination eif the natives of Chlriqul.
yarannsuessfulda acttp ue-arsada mde bry tah owners thereof in the rock-walled tombs In which At Cana, in the province of Panama, at the preo -
year an unsucessful attempt cras made by the their dead were interred. ent time there is being operated a gold mine for
qul volcanoe for the purpose of vrerifying certain Among the documents referred to are found merly worked by the Spaniards. Several years
information purported to have been secured in ro an the reoes f an xpedition that set out from the ago ie blasting in one of th e galleries of the
the year 1605 from this point and pertaining to city of GarciMunoz in Costa Rica. In th ar an aperture was made into what proved
eto de lbriedll he temis ooe m o agohdminew d the C
the Tisingal mine. During the dry'season of this 1563 for Quepo, Couto. Boruca and the valley ofb b ret rm i mine worked
year a second attempt will probabl be made,. Guaymi. An extract from this document liter- several centuries ago. Leather buckets, with
straps that fit around the forehead and around the
Among the documents consulted is one that, ally translated reads as follows: shoulders of the mine waorkers and instruments of
literally translated, reads as follows: "Going up the Guayml valley one arrives at a steel were found in a good state of preservation.
"Within the limits of .the department of Chir- place called Couto, wahere much gold has been The mouth of this mine had been so completely
qul, contiguous to the Republic of Costa Rico, found, and the natives have it worked into all hidden that mining operations had been carried
exist places rich in gold, knofwn by the names of forms; and on being questioned as to where they on for years almost paralleling the entrance shaft,i
Tisingal, Quebrada Ancha. Quebrada de Oro and obtained it they stated that they had gotten it without the engineers suspecting Its proximity.
others quite important. The first of these places in very big grains from a river four days' journey Records of the old Cana mine are in existence, but
was explored some time ago by a Spanish colony, from that place, in the dominion of an Indian its exact location had never been fixred before.
which in the year 1601 founded the city of Con- cacique called Ccaraci. Not one day's march Gold can be found in almost all the rivers of
cepcion de la Estrella, near this mine of great from Couto lies the village of Turucaca,t the in Chiriqu. In 189 there were discovered the first
wealth. The excessive stinginess of the conquer- habitants of which stated that they had obtained Indian graves, from wnhich were taken gold orna
ors reduced the Indians of the locality to the con- gold in the same river as the inhabitants of Couto. mentse, stone figures, arrow points, etc. Since this
dition of slaves, they being forced by the Spanish The provinces of Couto and Turucaca lie 0 time there have been found in Chirniqui hundreds
to rwork, mining the gold of the Tisingal. These leagues from the city of Garci-Munoz at the be- of these Indian graves, known to the present day
Indians became tired of the excessive work and ginning of the valley of Guayml, 10 leagues from natives by the name of "guacas. The writer him
bad treatment and became desperate. In the year the South sea in front of the Golfo Dulce. It is self opened up one grave from .hich he took 18
1611 they revolted against their oppressors and known that following up the Guaymi valley to pieces of pottery.
exterminated them; but other Spaniards at the the mountains toward the north eea there are to be It is a well-known fact that the half-indian na
place of the mutiny again compelled the Indians found numerous villages, such as Quepo, Couto, tires of Chiriqui, knowing the whereabouts of a
to resume the working of the mine and made Boruca, Aci, Urlaba, Xarixaba, Yabo, Duba, Ca; rich "guacal," prefer to work it alone and to sell
harder for them their state of slaveryp. This al- bara, Barerto, Tabcte, Arabora, Cabangara, Que- the gold found only in such quantities as their
most eliminated the Indians from this stretch of cabangara .... f "o rtoh e ..needs may require. They are suspicious of the
country. t The following year, 1564, another expedition white man, this suspicion and distrust being inbred
S"On the twenty-eighth of September, some set out from Cartagoe, Costa Rica, to explore this in them and handed down in tradition from their
years after these happenings, the Indians re- same country, and the chronicler, writing of their ancestors, who in truth had causel to hate that
turned, and without pity or consderaton took discoveeries, sas: race. d hunting and eplorng party that recently
the life of every foreigner living in the country; Crossing the province of Are and passing the returned from the vicinity of Buenos Aires and
and not only this, but, carrying stones from dis- valley of Coaca, we arrived in the prorvince of Boruca, in the heart of the r Indian country to the
tant localities, they corvered up and destroyed all Terbi and made our camp in the village of Co- west of David, reported that although they were
traces of the workings of the mines, and they curu, which lies in the valley of Duy. And the not openly attacked by the Indians yet they were
also razed all houses and churches belonging to Indians having brought to the leader a great conscious of being constantly watched; that food
the Spaniards. The onty traces remaining of quantity of gold, he sent the slaves to explore, was scarcely obtainable, and that on several occa
these ancient buildings today are the foundations and they brought back such large pieces that the sions they found the water of the springs muddied,
of the church and a bell belonging to it, leader himself decided to explore. We then ar- apparently but a few minutes before their arrival.
a to las e ers o oulhe ne otng toe orived at a river called -La Estrella, which is e the If this report be true, and there is every reason to
"At last thie news of the new rebellion reached principal one as to the quantity of gold found, believe that it is, inasmuch as it is but a repetition
Carago in C osta Rica, where Immediate prepa- " • from Cartago the expedition re- of former ones of a similar nature, then it is quite
rations were made for revenge It is known that turned to the province of Terbi, to the village ofr evident that the party were not cognizant of the
at the begning of the year 1710 the government Cururu, in the valley of the Duy (Indian name customs, likings and language of the natives with
at Cartageo sent 200 men by the w ay of Borucas for Quequexque); and from there we went to the whom they had to deal.
and Tuis to San Jose Cabecar, a ton o thei edast big river which had already been named Rio de Odd inscriptions and decorations are found
about 15 leagues from Concepcion. This expedi- la Estrella." ca-rved on volcanic bowlders in many parts of Chi
tion took 500 Indians of both sexes prisoners and
reduced them to a state of slavery, and as such Sice the sixteenth century the land bordering riqui, and these inscriptions, according to the In
consigned them to the inhabitants around about the Sixicla river, which lies to the north of the diana, indicate the burying grounds of the caciques.
Cartago upon their return to that place. These Chiriqul volcano and which empties into the Ca- Many of these decorations appear on the pottery
prisoners and all other Indians they met along ribbean sea, had been in dispute between the found in the graves and in the ethnological report
the way were massacred shortly thereafter. governments of Costa Rica and that of Panama. referred to are classified.
At that time it was claimed by both the governor Gold-bearing copper ore has been found in many
"From that time all Indians living in the of Costa Rica and the governor of Veraguas. The districts in Chiriqui, especially in that of Bugaba,
mountains in all directions up to a distance of 70 province of Chiriqui adjoins Siziola and formerly In which "Ttsingal" Is In all probability located,
leagues turned bitter enemies of the foreigners formed part of the province of Veraguas, now one the analysis of which has shown 15 per cent. cop
and up to a few years ago would have nothing to of the seven provinces of Panama. After the per bearing two per cent. gold.
do with the white races. Due to these events all independence of Panama in 1903 this dispute The Panamanian government is at the present
traces of the villages of Turrialba, Tuis, Atlrro, again arose, due, to a great extent, to changes time planning the construction of a railroad from
San Jose Cabecar and other places that lay on in the names of many of the rivers of this part David in Chirlqui to the city of Panama, which,
the route to Concepcion de la Estrella and Tisin- of the two countries, some of which still retain when built, will greatly open up this part of the
gal were lost and the trails of communication their Indian names, while others have been re- country and make it more accessible. The Indians
with the mines were covered with brush and named. The question was finally submitted to of Chiriqui will gtve way before the advance of
completely destroyed, so that after 40 years In President Fallie-res of France for arbitration and civilization and the earth will give up another of
Cartago no knowledge was to be obtained as to an entirely new boundary line was traced in ac- her treasures so well hidden for centuries by na
the locality of the Estrela and practically no cordance with his findings. ture's barriers aided by the avenging hand oL the
persn livi ewil or bd see the mines at The Indians inhabiting the coumtry ying nm. vanquished Americas.
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Globe.
Circumstances Alter Cases.
"The trouble is that too many peo
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The trouisbepton hand.t too m3 and yc bpttle
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