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Pumas, jaguars, bears, deer, and also many 

 kinds of smaller animals are to be found in 

 the interior, and the rivers swarm with 

 alligators. 



Almost every kind of tropical fruit abounds 

 in Peru; among the most esteemed are the 

 granadilla and the cherymoya. 



Although the principal sources of wealth are 

 guano and nitrate, yet sugar, coffee, bark, 

 copper ore, &c., are largely exported. In 

 mineral wealth Peru is inexhaustible, its wealth 

 only requires to be developed, and the country 

 to be opened out, which is being done as fast 

 as possible, for in 1872 there were over 2000 

 miles of railways either completed or in course 

 of construction. 



We sailed from Callao on the 9th of October, 

 1872, bound for the coast of Mexico, and 

 had been at sea three or four days when, 

 owing to the illness of one of the officers, we 

 put into Payta for the purpose of invaliding 

 him/ 



This is the most northern port in Peru, it is 



