Note 33 — Chapter IV · PERUVIAN AND CHILEAN HISTORIANS, 1550-1600.
Reading edition
Ib. Book IV, chap. XXII. As to the traffic in coca in the single city of Potosí, our author makes the following statement: “The traffic of coca in Potosí doth yearly mount to above half a million of dollars, for that they use foure score and tenne or foure score and fifteen thousand baskets every year.”