50 CHINCHONA INTRODUCED INTO JAVA. Chap. HI. 



riquez, by the people inhabiting villages bordering on the 

 chinchona forests, who considered that their interests would be 

 injured by the exportation of the plants : they declared they 

 would cut Ms feet oif if they caught him, and he has ever 

 since been obliged to live at Pelechuco, in Bolivia.'' This 

 feeling has rendered any future operations of a like nature 

 exceedingly difficult. 



]M. Hasskarl left Sandia with these plants in June, 1854, 

 but they were not placed in Wardian cases at the port of 

 May until August, and on the 27th of that month he finally 

 left the coast of Peru in a sailing vessel, and shaped his 

 course direct for Java.^ He arrived at Batavia with twenty 

 Wardian cases on December 13th, but all his plants have 

 since died except two.^ On his an-ival M. Hasskarl was 

 intrusted with the cultivation of chinchona-plants in Java, 

 with the rank of Assistant-Eesident, and was made a Knight 

 of the Netherlands Lion, and Commander of the Order of the 

 Oaken Crown.^° 



Besides the plants brought by M. Hasskarl, a plant of 

 G. Calisaya, raised in Paris fi-om seeds sent home by Dr. 

 Weddell, had arrived in Java ; as well as plants raised from 

 seeds previously sent from Peru, and seeds of C. lancifolia 

 sent by Dr. Karsten from New G-ranada, through the 

 Governor of Curaqoa ; and thus the experimental chinchona 

 cultivation in Java was commenced. 



Although through various circumstances the mission to 

 South America was not very successful, yet M. Hasskarl 

 deserves the greatest credit for the zeal and determina- 

 tion displayed by him in his journeys, during which he was 

 surrounded by no ordinary amount of difficulties and dangers. 



7 luformation from GLronda, then | 1860, No. 50, pai-a. 8. 

 Governor of Sina. i w Bonplamlia, IMarch, 1859, p. 72. 



* Kew Miscellany, Oct. and Nov. The pay of an Assistant-Resident in 

 1856. Java is !)00l. a-year. — IMoney's Java. 



9 Dr.Macpherson's Report, Dec. 19, 



