68 VOYAGE TO ISLAY. Chap. IV. 



to Guayaquil for Mr. Spruce's colleetiou, and fifteen to tlie 

 port of Islay in Southern Peru, to await my return from the 

 chinchona forests. After a month's residence in Lima we 

 embarked on board one of the mail-steamers for the south- 

 ward, and on the 2nd of March, 1860, we landed at Islay, 

 which is more conveniently situated than any other port 

 for a journey to the chinchona forests of Southern Peru or 

 Bolivia. 



