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traversed before, and where we attained an 

 elevation of 5350 feet, or more than a mile high. 

 After a short stay here we returned to Lima, 

 much pleased with our excursion and the libe- 

 rality of our host. The scenery throughout was 

 of the grandest description. 



A few days afterwards a party of us met on 

 board the " Hassler," at the invitation of 

 Monsieur Agassiz, for a trip to Ancon, and 

 whilst there an expedition was made to some 

 neighbouring huacos, or Indian burial-grounds ; 

 some hundreds of skulls were collected, 

 and brought on board for transmission to 

 a college in America. These relics may pos- 

 sibly prove of much interest to the distinguished 

 members of the Anthropological Society, but to 

 me it seemed a ghastly and disgusting cargo. 



The "Hassler" was to leave for the north 

 the next day, and the professor was desirous of 

 procuring a kind of fish called the pec-a-rey, 

 found only in the Bimac river ; so I undertook 

 to obtain some for him. Taking our seine and 

 a party of men, I landed at daylight and had 



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