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el Indio h ombre de los Andes, la Sierra de los Andes/' i. e. 

 the country of the Andes, an inhabitant ?of the Andes, or 

 the chain of mountains themselves), are and must continue 

 two wholly different and distinct words. There are no means 

 of interpreting the proper name (Anti) by connecting it 

 with any signification or idea ; if such connection exist it is 

 buried in the obscurity of the past. Other Composites of 

 Anti besides the above-mentioned Antisuyuare "Anteruna" 

 (the native inhabitant of the Andes), and Anteunccuy or 

 Antionccoy, (sickness of the Andes, rnal de los Andes 

 pestifero) . 



( 2 ) p. 268. The Countess of Chine/ion." 



She was the wife of the Viceroy Don Geronimo Fernandez 

 de Cabrera, Bobadilla y Mendoza, Conde de Chinchon, who 

 administered the government of Peru from 1629 to 1639. 

 The cure of the Vice-Queen falls in the year 1638. A 

 tradition which has obtained currency in Spain, but which I 

 have heard much combated at Loxa, names a Corregidor del 

 Cabildo de Loxa, Juan Lopez de Canizares, as the person 

 by whom the Quina-bark was first brought to Lima and 

 generally recommended as a remedy. I have heard it 

 asserted in Loxa that the beneficial virtues of the tree were 

 known long before in the mountains, though not generally. 

 Immediately after my return to Europe I expressed the 

 doubts I felt as to the discovery having been made by the 

 natives of the country round Xioxa, since even at the present 

 day the Indians of the neighbouring valleys, where inter- 

 mittent fevers are very prevalent, shun the use of 



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