IN JAVA. Ill 



" Manuel was never aware of my requiring seed and leaves 

 for propagating purposes ; he was always told they were 

 wanted to make a special remedy for a special ilhiess. For 

 many years, since 1844, I had felt deeply interested in seeing 

 Europe, and my own dear country in particular, free from 

 being dependent on Peru or Bolivia for its supply of lifc-giviug 

 quinine. Kemembering and relying on ^lanuel's promise to 



the 



best cinchona seed produced in Bolivia. 



His son Santiag 



In 



^^^^, . J ^^ sending back to South America Santiago 



and other Indians who had accompanied me there as shepherds 

 of the alpacas, I bought 200 Spanish dollars, and said to him : 

 ' You will give these to your father. Tell him I count on his 

 keeping his promise to get for me forty to fifty pounds of rogo 



cinchona (white flower) seed. He must get it from trees wo 

 had sat under tofrether when trvino; to reach the Mamore 

 river in 1851 ; to meet me at Tacna (Peru) by May 18G3. If 

 not bringing pure, ripe rogo seed, flowers and leaves^ never to 

 look for me asrain/ 



" I arrived back in Tacna on the 5th of January, 1865. I 

 at once sent a message to Manuel, informing him of my 

 arrival. At the end of 3Iay he arrived witb his precious seed. 

 It is only now, some twenty-four years after poor ]\[anuel 

 ' promised not to deceive me, manifest how faithfully and 

 loyally he kept his promise. I say j^oor Manuel, because, 

 as you know, he lost his life while trying to get another 

 supply of the same class of seed for mo in 1872-3. You are 

 aware too how later on I lost another old Indian friend, poor 

 Poli, when bringing seed and flowers in 1877. 



** I feel thoroughly convinced in my ownmind that such 

 astonishiuiily rich quinine-yielding trees as those in Java are 

 not known to exist (in any quantity) in Bolivia. These 

 wonderful trees are only to be found in the Caupolican district 

 in eastern Yungas. The white flower is specially belonging 

 to the cinchona * rogo ' of Apolo. 



"Yon will call to mind, no doubt, the very great difficulties 

 you had to get this wonderful ' seed ' looked at, even ; how a 

 part was purchased by 3rr. I^loney for account of our East 

 Indian Government for £50 under condition of 10,000 



