384 POEPPIG'S JOURNEY. 
ptcsuits by accounts which he communicated to a German 
Natural History Journal, and which were afterwards trans- 
lated into a French and English periodical. The impossi- 
bility that existed of penetrating into the North from Lima 
during the war of 1829 between Colombia and Peru, obliged 
tl; Author to take up his solitary residence in one of the 
least known provinces of extensive South America, namely, 
Maynas. Thence he succeeded, quite alone, in reaching the 
Atlantic coast in April, 1832, by way of the Huallaya and 
Amazones; a journey of considerable length and difficulty, 
which, since the time of La Condamine, has only been 
undertaken by one educated European, the English Lieu- 
tenant Henry Maw, who rapidly hurried through this wide 
extent of country in less than three months. In the arrange- 
ment of his materials, the author has followed the example 
of the celebrated Von Martius, excluding all strictly Natural 
History details, which will form a separate work, as well as 
the accounts of trifling adventures, occurrences and personal 
anecdotes, where these seem unnecessary for elucidating the 
peculiarities of the country or people." 
