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Arrived at Azangora, they learned that no beasts of burden were to 

 be obtained, as they were all required by the insurgents belonging to 

 the party of Castilla, to carry muskets brought from Bolivia to Cuzco; 

 whereas other drivers had taken the district of the mountains, to avoid 

 being compelled to a like service for the corps of General Eoman, 

 who was on the way from Puno to Cuzco. It appears that the strife 

 of the two Republics against each other, and the troubled condition of 

 the contending parties, caused the indefatigable and courageous tra- 

 veller many difBculties, and almost occasioned the failure of his mission. 



We will not now follow him in the enumeration of his disasters, but 

 only say that, not counting five days when he w^as detained by raeetmg 

 with the soldiers, he, by means of forced marches, accomplished the 

 journey from Sandia to Arequipa in a week ; thence, embarking on a 

 ship ready for sea, he went by Islay to Callao, and thence direct to 



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Java. 



{To he continued!) 



BOTANICAL INFOEMATION. 



The late PuorEssoB. Bojeb. 



The scientific w^orld, and particularly the lovers of Eastern botany, 

 will learn with regret the death of Professor Wenceslaus Bojer, which 

 took place at Port Louis, Mauritius, on the 4th of last June. For the 

 last thirty years, the student of exotic botany has been familiar with 

 his name ; the * Botanical Magazine ' of Sir W. J. Hooker, and the 



' Prodromus ' of the late Professor De CandoUe, attest the value of his 

 scientific researches, and show the extent and variety of the beautiful 

 trees and plants which he was the first to introduce to the notice oi 

 European botanists. The writer of the present sketch has laboured 

 with Professor Bojer in the Eoyal Society of Arts and Sciences, Mau- 

 ritius, for several years, and the following account of his travels and 

 researches in countries at that time but little known and frequented, 

 he has heard from M. Bojer's own lips. 



M. Bojer w^as born at Prague, in Bohemia, on the 1st of January, 

 1800, Remarkable from early youth for the love of botany and natu- 

 ral science, he was noticed by the late Emperor of Austria, who consi- 



