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win the heart of and actually marry the daughter 

 of the oldest Portuguese colonist, Senhor Brandao, 

 who (as he himself has told me) considered him- 

 self of the same race as our ancient Dukes of 

 Suffolk. Arrived at Para, the resident merchants 

 and druggists, deceived by the appearance of the 

 bark, and probably at that epoch unable to test it 

 chemically, offered to buy the whole cargo at a 

 price that would have amply remunerated the 

 adventurers, who, however, now thoroughly per- 

 suaded of the genuineness of their bark, and be- 

 lieving they could obtain a far higher price for it in 

 England, determined to proceed with it to Liver- 

 pool. They accordingly freighted a vessel of 

 Singlehurst's, partly on borrowed money and 

 partly on credit of the proceeds of the sale they 

 hoped to effect. It must have been a sorrowful 

 moment for them when their bark, having been 

 analysed at Liverpool by competent judges, was 

 pronounced to be utterly worthless, and not Peru- 

 vian Bark at all. When ulterior analysis only 

 confirmed the sentence, nothing was left for them 

 but to abandon their hoped-for source of wealth 

 and return to their own country, which they were 

 only enabled to do by the beneficence of the mer- 

 chants of Liverpool. Mr. Singlehurst had the 

 unsaleable bark left on his hands, in lieu of ^400 

 due to him on freight from Para, and for expense- 

 incurred in England. 



At Lamas I was shown the spurious bark-tree, 

 still growing in tolerable abundance, and recognised 

 it as one I had gathered in llower and fruit on hill 

 sides at Tarapoto. It is the Condaniinc 

 bosa of Decandolle, and belongs to the same family 



