OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. C6x 



_ "987, July 3d" (Blair, and Nicol.), Louis V. succeeded by Hugh Capet, head of the Capetian or 

 Third dynasty of French kings. 



" The same year " (ann. Jap., and art de verif.), abdication of Quassan, who retired to the monas- 

 tery of Quamsi, adopted the costume of a bonze or priest, and took the name of Nigugakf. He was 

 succeeded by his cousin Itsi-dsio or Yets-sio, now sixty-sixth dairo of Japan:— and who patronized 

 literature, and attracted many learned men to his court. 



988 A. D. (= 975 -f- 13 years of twelve lunations) = " 14th year of Aziz," in an Arabic inscrip- 

 tion at the gold mines of Gebel Ellaka in the Ababdeh Desert (Wilk. theb. and eg. p. 416). 



" The same year " (Nicol.), a synod at Llandaff. Arthmail king of Wales was " condemned to do 

 penance for having slain his brother." 



About this time (= "a little more than eight hundred years " before 1S04, tradit., and Colebrooke 

 as. res. viii. p. 467), Sancara or Sancar'acharya expounding the Vedas. 



"990 A. D. = 1st year of the 'tchun-hoa' of Tai-tsoung III." (Chinese chron. table). " In the 

 time of Chun-hoa " (topog. Cant., and Pauth. 473), the foreign agent at Canton receiving from the 

 Chinese "metals, silk, gold, etc.," gave in return " rhinoceros, horns, elephants' teeth, coral, pearls, 

 precious stones, crystal, foreign stuffs or cloth, paper, red-wood, drugs, etc." At the capital, a tribunal 

 of revenues established. 



" In the Tenth century" (Storch, and Pouchet), the Russians had extended their commerce as far 

 South as Constantinople. 



"Towards the end of the century" (Talvi ii. 1), Christianity introduced into Russia through the 

 influence of king Vladimir ; who also founded the first schools there. 



"993 A. D." (Nicol.), a synod at Latran in Rome. Udalric bishop of Augsburg declared a saint: 

 the first act of canonization on record. 



" In this year (== 383 A. H." of Ferisht., Elph.), Noah or Noh, seventh Samani king, driven from 

 Bokhara across the Oxus by the Tartars under Bogra Khan ; whose sickness retreat and death enabled 

 Noah to recover his throne. 



"994 A. D." (see Samuel Aniens., and his editor), end of the chronicle of Stephanus Asolnichius 

 of Armenia. 



"995 A. D. = 1st year of the 'tchi-tao' of Tai-tsoung III." — (Chinese chron. table). 



"The same year" (Alst), at Rome, Joannes XVI. succeeded by Joannes XVII., seventy-fifth 

 archbishop. 



"996 A. D." (Alst., and Nicol.), at Rome, Joannes XVII. succeeded by Gregorius V., seventy- 

 sixth archbishop. 



and Ruiz and Pavon iii. pi. 239; its fruit by myself in market at Lima, solid in consistence, and so 

 rich-flavoured and sweet that a small quantity suffices ; the tree I was assured by Mr. Matthews is 

 "native in ravines to the Northward." Is probably one of the two species cultivated according to 

 Molina by the natives of Chili. 



Prosopis dulcis of Peru. A Leguminous tree called "pacai : " its pods exhumed in the cemetery 

 at Pachacamac, — great quantities observed also in the market at Lima, and the tree in gardens : the 

 "pacay " was observed in Peru by J. Acosta, Feuille'e ii. pi. 19, and is termed P. dulcis by Humboldt 

 and Bonpland. By European colonists, was carried to the Taheitian Islands, a single young stock 

 observed by myself on Aimeo. 



Gossvpium Peruvianum of Western Peru. The art of weaving cotton cloth known in Peru as 

 early at least as this date : remnants of different degrees of fineness observed by myself in the ancient 

 cemetery at Pachacamac, together with accompanying tufts of the wool, belonging to a free-seeded 

 species: — a Gossypium was observed by myself about half-way to the Andes, a single small tree 

 about fifteen feet high, its five-lobed leaves pubescent beneath. G. Peruvianum is described by 

 Cavanilles vi. pi. 168 (Pers.). 



Plumieria purpurea and P. incarnata of Lower Peru. Arborescent shrubs called "suchi" 

 (Markh.), from early times cultivated for their flowers and fragrance: — observed by Ruiz and 

 Pavon ii.pl. 137 and 138 in gardens in Peru; also by Markham p. xl. 



Musa sapientum of Tropical America. The plantain called in Brazilian "paco" (Ler. 206), in 

 Tamanaque "paruru," in Maypure " arata " (Humb. ii. 397), in Peru " arton " and cultivated there in 

 the time of the Incas (Garcil. de la Vega i. 282) ; leaves also found in the huacas — (Stevenson, i. 320, 

 and A. Dec.) ; and fruit offered to Pizarro on his arrival at Tumbez (early ms. quoted by Prescott) : 

 "plantans " were seen by De Soto in 153S on Cuba : and the "plane " by J. Acosta in the neighbour- 

 ing countries as far as Peru : plantains have been observed by myself only in Peru, much longer and 

 of coarser substance than any varieties of the banana, but the plant producing them was not met 

 with. 



