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Jnemia.Qtc, together with several pretty Selaginellas, and an Adder's- 

 tongue. A small species of Grammitis^ gi'ovving on trees in the moun- 

 tains, is very odoriferous when dry, and the Indian women put it in 

 their hair, calling it Adnima. 



*' These things have not been got together witliout greater trouble 

 than I had calculated on. I expected to find roads on which I could 

 take long journeys witli mules ; but though there are a few mules, there 

 are no roads on which they can be taken with cargoes. Between Moyo- 

 bamba and the Huallaga all cargoes must be carried on Indians' backs^ 

 and indeed throughout the eastern slope of the Cordillera the roads 

 rarely admit of any other mode. The number of Indians is constantly 

 diminishing, and barely suffices for the ordinary traffic of the district. 

 I have ridden a few times across the Pampa to the hills ; but for longer 

 excursions this mode does not suit. The journey alluded to at the 

 opening of my letter was to visit a mountain lying beyond the Mayo, 

 at two days' journey from Moyobamba and three from Tarapoto. It is 

 called the Campana, from some fancied resemblance to a bell, and the 

 road crosses it at about 3500 feet* (by barometer) above the plahi of 

 Tarapoto; but there is a peak to northward of the pass rising 1000 

 feet higher. It differs notably from the adjacent mountains by beuig 

 nearly all Fado^ only the valleys and ravines towards its base being 

 filled with forest, in which abundance of Palms are conspicuous. The 

 only habitation there is a chacra on the side next Moyobamba, at 1500 

 feet below the Pass, and with no other dwelling nearer than a day's 

 Journey. Here I established myself with a stock of paper and with 

 provisions for three weeks, which I had taken the necessary precaution 

 of carrying with me from Tarapoto. My cargoes loaded five men on 

 the way thither and six on the return. I have reason to be satisfied 

 with my success at the Campana; and I should probably have brought 

 away more specimens, had not my host, a few days after my arrival, 

 been severely bitten by a snake, the cure of whom prevented my 

 leaving the house far for several days, 



" I have been most put about here for materials of which to make 

 boxes, as such things as boards are not to be had. The only use the 

 inhabitants have for a board is to make a door; and this is either cut 

 out of some old canoe or they cut down a tree in the forest, roughly 

 carve out a door from it on the spot, and bring it home on Ihoir I^M-ks. 



* Perhaps noon feet above the aca, but I bavc no baromrtrK ii-.iiUn^:^ belov\ ib* 

 mouth of the Rio Negro. 



