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and qiienua trees, a few ancient apple-trees, and a dense growth 

 of bright-yellow Compositaj, and Solamims witli a pur])le 

 flower. A noisy torrent foamed down the cliffs and over 

 the terraces to the plain below. It was a very pretty spot, 

 but in a most desolate condition, and many small doves made 

 their nests in the trees. Lupins {ccerra^) and nettles {itajmlhi) 

 were growing in the crevices of the rocks. We had an excel- 

 lent and very merry dinner ; a large amount of BFoquegua 

 wine, and of the better-clarified and more generous liquor 

 from Don Domingo Elias's vineyards at Pisco, were drunk ; 

 and guitar-playing and samocueca-dancing finished the day's 

 entertainment. We returned to Azangaro after dark. Don 

 Luis assured mo that the people of this little town were like 

 one family ; and that, though election-time or periods of civil 

 dissension sometimes caused estrangement amongst them, the 

 habitual concord and friendship always returned when the 

 excuse for alienation had passed away. 



Azangaro is a great cattle-breeding province, and there is 

 a considerable trade in cheeses with Ai-equipa and other parts. 

 I found very great difficulty in procuring animals to enable 

 me to continue my journey. At length I succeeded in hhing 

 four miserable-looking, vicious, undersized ponies ; and, 

 having crossed the Azangaro on balsas, by far the largest 

 river I had passed over since leaving Puno, the way led over 

 the rocky range of Pacobamba hills into another plain, where 

 there were several cattle and sheep farms ; and the village of 

 Corruarini, consisting of a ruined chui'ch and a dozen huts. 

 The river Azangaro rises in the snowy mountains of Cara- 

 vaya, forms an immense curve of nearly half a circle in a 

 course of about two hundred miles, and, uniting with the 

 river of Pucara, falls into the lake of Titicaca as the river 

 Ramiz, the largest of its affluents. After a ride of six leagues 



LupinuH Paniculatus. — Chloris Andina, ii. p. 252. 



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