The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

. attempt to touch any of them or take away any, my friends who are here at hand will certainly kill you'
 The girl was so earnest the Spaniard grew scared He threw down the gold and submitted again to be blindfolded. When he returned to Cuzco he informed the authorities and an order was issued for the arrest of the girl. The officers went to her hut, but they found that she and all the rest of the family had left for the mountains. And that was the last of the treasure.
 There are records left by the Spaniards describing several localities where they think some of these Inca treasures may De found. One of these is in chapter of the Derretero of valverde. valverde died in Spain, after having returned from the mountains of Lianganati in Ecuador. lie was known to have gone many times into the mountains and to have brought out great quantity of gold whose char acter showed it to be a part of the treas ures of Atahualpa
 < Upon dying valverde left directions giving the route, to, where the gold lay, ana the King of Spain sent this descrip-. ton to Ambato. a town now on the rail- road between the coast and Quito and ordered the officers there to search for the treasure. 1 understand that the
 
 record. I abbreviaie the description: It tells the searcher for the treasure to stand on the mountain of Guapa, with his back to Ambato, and look to the east. From there he will see three moun- tains in the form of triangle surround ing an artificial lake. into which the ancients. when they heard of the death of the Incan King, threw the gold they had prepared for hisslansom. The Span- lsh directions then show one just how to set there, and the dangers he is liable to incur on the way. By following them he will finally come into a bog filled with grains of gold that can be washed out in . stream nearby, and still farther on is a certain cave where was the fur- race through which the Indians melted their ores. This is on the left hand side of the mountain. The directions are quite intricate. and so far no one has yet found the treasure.
 Returning again to the treasures of Atahualpa, buried by Rumipagui, there was an Indian boy named Catuna, the son of one of the Inca chiefs. who was with his Athersla at the time the hoard was secreted. This boy was injured in one of the battles and was supposed to- be dead. He was taken up by one of the spaniards. and he recovered. His in- jurics were so severe. however, that his fea.grvsl were distorted and he became hupchback The Spaniard who adopted him. az It were. was d Captain Suarez. He taught him to read and write, and ms >r him a Christian. He treated the Indian hoy, so, well that he came to love him. and his heart was filled with gratitude.
 IAterson Suarez became unfortunate in his speculations. and his nouse was about to be sold by his creditors. when Catuna told him that if he would make secret vault under the residence and give him some instrl1nents for gold smelting he could find enough gold to pay off his debts He also made his master promise not to say where the gold came froni. Suarcz agreed tp this, and Catuna sull- piled SO much treasrfe that he became rich man, Hc gave a great deal to the church, and wien he oied in 15Pa he made Catuna his heir.
 Alter that ss-afuna gave very lIberally to thoschurch and he was known to have so much. Honey, that he was questioned az to the sbufce Whence he derived his great wealth. He answered that ne had made compact with the evil one. to whom he had sold his soul for this gold This statement was credited, and the more easily because at that time the Indians were believed tp have regular intercourse with the devil
 After Catuna's death his premises were searched and the vault was discovered. It contained q great quantity of gold in insots and bars. and also m vessels of gold that evidently came from the Inca s , The people. however, persisted in believ- ing that the story of the ract with tho devil was true, and. says Father velas- co. from whose letters this story comes. "the truth would have never been dis covered if 1t had not been that Catuna's confessor, franciscan monk. had left c written account of the burial of Atahual- pas trea asure and his use of t. which M been confided to him. %