gill l^ljciiantr |ouTiitD from Dalptaiso U l^ibraitar, bit t|c Istlrmus 



of fanama. 



16th Mat to 1st August, 1859. 



Departure from Valparaiso — Coquimbo — Caldera — Cobija — Iquiqiie — Manufacture 

 of saltpetre — Arica — Port d'lslaj^ — 3redanns, or waucTering sand-hills — Chola — 

 Pisco — The Chincha or Guano Islands — Remarks respecting the Guano or Huanu 

 beds — Callao — Lima — Carrion crows, the principal street-scavengers — Churches 

 and Monasteries — Hospitals — Charitable institutions — Medical College — National 

 Library — Padre Vigil — National Museum— The Central Normal School — Great 

 lack of intellectual energy — Ruins of Cajamarquilla — Chorillos — Temple to the 

 Sun at Pachacamac — River Rimac — Amancaes — The new prison — Bull-fights — 

 State of society in Peru — The Coca plant, and the latest scientific examination re- 

 specting its peculiar properties — The China, or Peruvian-bark tree — Departure 

 from Lima — Lambajeque — Indian village of Iting — Paita — Island of La Plata — 

 Taboga Island — Impression made by the intelligence of Humboldt's death — Pa- 

 nama — " Opposition" Line — Immense traffic — The Railway across the Isthmus — 

 Aspinwall — Carthagena — St. Thomas — Voyage to Europe on board the R. M. S. 

 3Ia(/dalena — Falmouth — Southampton — London — Rejoin the Novava at sea — Ar- 

 rival at Gibraltar. 



Five days after the departure of the Novara, I left the roads 

 of Valparaiso on board the mail steamer Callao. The weatlier 



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