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species of Ochroma (of the N.O. Bombacese). They begin to be 

 found as soon as we reach a hot climate, say from 3000 feet 

 elevation downwards. 



"Rundu," sleet; thus '' Rundu-uma," Sleety Head. " Rasu " 

 is snow, and occurs in " Chimbu-rasu," " Caraguai-rasu " (Car- 

 guairago), and many other names. The vulgar name for snow as 

 it falls is " Papa-cara," i.e. potato peelings. 



" Pucara " indicates the site of a hill-fort of the Incas, of which 

 a great many are scattered through the Quitonian Andes. 



CRITICAL NOTE BY THE EDITOR 



The preceding account of the various routes of 

 the gold-seekers among the Llanganati Mountains 

 leads to the conclusion that only the earliest that 

 led by the Corregidor of Tacunga and the friar 

 Padre Longo made any serious attempt to follow 

 the explicit directions of the " Guide," since the 

 others departed from it so early in the journey as 

 the great black lake " Yana Cocha," going to the 

 left instead of to the right of it. No doubt they 

 were either deceived by Indian guides who assured 

 them that they knew an easier way, or went in 

 search of rich mines rather than of buried treasure. 

 The first party, however, and those who afterwards 

 followed it, kept to the route, as clearly described, to 

 the sleeping-place beyond the deep ravine where 

 Padre Longo was lost ; but beyond this point they 

 went wrong by crossing the river, and thus leaving 

 the district of the three volcanoes, which twice at 

 the beginning of the " Guide" are indicated as the 

 locality of the treasure. 



Although no route to these mountains is marked 

 on the map, Spruce tells us that other parties did 



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