CHAPTER XIII. 
PERU — CONTINUED. 
1 8 3 9. 
On the arrival of the Relief at Callao, Messrs. Pickering, Rich, 
Agate and Brackenridge, requested permission to make a jaunt to the 
Cordilleras of Peru, for the purpose of making botanical collections. 
I felt much gratified that this object had been effected, although I 
could not but regret that they were suffered to depart without the 
necessary instruments for obtaining the altitudes, which had been put 
on board the Relief at Orange Harbour, for that very purpose. 
Mr. Rich spoke the Spanish language well, which afforded the 
party many facilities for overcoming the difficulties that were thrown 
in their way. 
In Lima the journey was considered as a very serious undertaking, 
and likely to be attended with much danger, from the banditti who 
frequent the route they intended to pass over, — that to the mines of 
Pasco. Through the friendly assistance of Mr. Biggs, of the house 
of Messrs. Bartlett & Co., every thing was made easy. By his 
advice they supplied themselves, not only with blankets and horse- 
furniture, but with all sorts of provisions, and particularly with 
bread, of which they took as much as they could carry, notwithstand- 
ing the country was described as well inhabited. As a preliminary 
step, it was necessary to provide themselves with passports, for which 
they lost no time in applying. After the delay of a day, the pass- 
ports came in the form of a letter of protection, and recommendation 
from Lafuente himself, to the local authorities throughout all Peru, 
couched in the most liberal terms, and treating the affair with as 
much importance as if it was a national one. It is a regulation that 
the names of all who receive passports, shall be published in the 
official gazette ; their intention, therefore, became known to all Lima. 
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