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CHAPTEE XVII. 



JOURNEY FROM THE FORESTS OF TAMBOPATA TO THE 

 PORT OF ISLAY. 



Establishment of the plants in "Wardian cases^ 



On May lltli Mr. Weir completed the packing of the plants, 

 and we were preparing for the journey up into the pajmiales 

 on the following day, having previously fixed on the Calisaya- 

 trees from which we intended to obtain a supply of seeds in 

 August, when Gironda received an ominous letter from Don 

 Jose Mariano Bobadilla, the Alcalde Municipal of Quiaca, 

 ordering him to prevent me from taking away a single plant ; 

 to arrest both myself and the person who had acted as my 

 guide ; and to send us to Quiaca.^ I found that an outcry 

 against my proceedings had been raised by Don Manuel 

 Martel, the red-faced man whom I had met on the road to 

 Sandia, and that the people of Sandia and Quiaca had been 

 excited by assertions that the exportation of cascarilla-seeds 

 would prove the ruin of themselves and their descendants. 

 Gironda, though friendly and hospitable, feared that the 

 finger of scorn would be pointed at him, as the man who had 



' " Alcalde Municipal del Distrito de I esta nota, para que sin permitir que en 



Quiaca, al Senor Juez de Paz Don grave perjuicio de los hijos del pais, lo 



Juan de la Cruz G-ironda. tome ni una planta, por lo que come 



" 6 de Mayo de 1860. autoridad debe vm de aberigu^ir bien 



•^ para captiurar a el y al persona qiuen 



" Teniendo positivas noticias de que se propone a facilitarle diehas plantas, 



sea internado a los puntos de Tambo- y conducirlos a este. 



pata un estranjero Ingles, con objeto .. j^. . 



de estraer plantas de cascarilla, me es i » •• 



de absoluta necesidad pasarle a vm "Jose Mariano Bobadilla." 



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