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earning 3 dols. a day (12^. Qd.), and was on his way to fetch 

 his family away from the colony of Pozuzu, and taking them 

 with him to the scene of his labours. That none of his 

 comitrymen did not follow him was, as he explained to us, 

 in consequence of one of the colonists, ''a half student," dis- 

 suading them from doing so, and himself leading them to try 

 their luck at another spot, where unfortunately they had to 

 battle with want in its severest form. I have rarely seen 

 any man so excited and agitated at the sound of his native 

 tongue as this hearty specimen of the sons of the Alps, 

 when I addressed him '^ in good Austrian," and shook him 

 by the hand. The reader will find further on, in the ac- 

 count of my stay at Lima, a more full account of the Tyro- 

 lese colony at Pozuzu, its present condition and possible 

 future. 



On 23rd May, at 6 a. m., the steamer anchored oif Chala, 

 which first attained the dignity of a sea-port in 1857, being 

 intended to facilitate intercourse and increase the trade with 

 Cuzco. Chala is the nearest harbour to the ancient capital 

 of the Incas, 240 miles distant. Though singularly^ ill- 

 adapted for a port, being, in fact, nothing but an open road- 

 stead, Chala bids fair to become a place of some importance, 

 so soon as the country is at peace, and a good road is con- 

 structed hence to Cuzco, so as to be able to convey with dis- 

 patch the numerous valuable products of Cuzco. Wlien we 

 visited it, the little settlement, barely a year old, had 212 

 inhabitants, in some thirty wooden huts extending along the 



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