IN JAVA. Ill 



" Manuel was never aware of my requiring seed and leaves 

 for propagating purposes ; he was always told they were 

 wanted to make a special remedy for a special illness. For 

 many years, since 1844, I had felt deeply interested in seeing 

 Europe, and my own dear country' in particular, free from 

 being dependent on Peru or Bolivia for its supply of life-giving 

 quinine. Remembering and relying on Manuel's promise to 

 me in 1856, 1 resolved to do all in my power to obtain the very 

 best cinchona seed produced in Bolivia. 



" His son Santiago went to Australia with me in 1858. In 

 1861, the day before sending back to South America Santiago 

 and other Indians who had accompanied me there as shepherds 

 of the alpacas, I bought 200 Spanish dollars, and said to him : 

 ' You will give these to your father. Tell him I count on his 

 keeping his promise to get for me forty to fifty pounds of rogo 

 cinchona (white flower) seed. He must get it from trees we 

 had sat under together when trying to reach the Mamore 

 river in 1851 ; to meet me at Tacna (Peru) by May 1863. If 

 not bringing pure, ripe rogo seed, flowers and leaves, never to 

 look for me again.' 



" I arrived back in Tacna on the 5th of January, 1865. I 

 at once sent a message to Manuel, informing him of my 

 arrival. At the end of May he arrived with his precious seed. 

 It is only now, some twenty-four years after poor Manuel 

 promised not to deceive me, manifest how faithfully and 

 loyally he kept his promise. I say jioor Manuel, because, 

 as you know, he lost his life while trying to get another 

 supply of the same class of seed for me in 1872-3. You are 

 aware too how later on I lost another old Indian friend, poor 

 Poli, when bringing seed and flowers in 1877. 



" I feel thoroughly convinced in my ■ own mind that such 

 astonishingly rich quinine-yielding trees as those in Java are 

 not known to exist (in any quantity) in Bolivia. These 

 wonderful trees are only to be found in the Caupolican district 

 in eastern Yungas. The white flower is specially belonging 

 to the cinchona ' rogo ' of Apolo. 



" You will call to mind, no doubt, the very great difficulties 

 you had to get this wonderful ' seed ' looked at, even ; how a 

 part was purchased by Mr. Money for account of our East 

 Indian Government for £50 under condition of 10,000 



