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the mountains, to avoid being compelled to a like service for the 
corps of General Roman, who was on the way from Puno to Cuzco. 
It appears that the strife of the two Republics against each other, 
and the troubled condition of the contending parties, caused the 
indefatigable and courageous traveller many difficulties, and almost 
occasioned the failure of his mission. 
" We will not now follow him in the enumeration of his disas- 
ters, but only say that, not counting five days when he was detain- 
ed by meeting with the soldiers, he, by means of forced marches, 
accomplished the journey ^from Sandia to Arequipa in a week ; 
thence, embarking on a ship ready for sea, he wentby Islay to Cal- 
lao, and thence direct to tJava. 
" It seemed as if the courageous traveller must encounter new 
difficulties at the end of his mission. Islay was again in possession 
of the party of Echinique. An attack for the conquest of Arequi- 
pa was preparing there. But the means of transport were wanting. 
Mr. Hasskarl required many beasts of burden to transport his 
packages. To obtain these there was no sort of prospect. It was 
feared, and, as it appeared later, not without reason, that the ani- 
mals would be seized. The profits of the expedition were not an 
equivalent to the risk the drivers feared they should incur. The 
party of Castilla, which was uppermost in Arequipa, moreover, did 
not permit the departure to Islay, and the one danger brought on 
the other. At last, when damages for the possible loss of the 
beasts was promised in case of need, and some persons of influ- 
ence in Arequipa placed themselves in the breach for Mr. Hass- 
karl, his desired departure was allowed. On the journey to 
Islay nothing important happened, but at that place however the 
beasts were immediately pressed into the military transport service. 
The Wardian cases were arrived at Islay, but the frigate did not ap- 
pear till a fortnight afterwards ; this induced him to depart for Cal- 
lao on a vessel going thither in ballast. In three days he arrived 
there. On the passage Mr. Hasskarl, unpacked his Quinquina 
plants, which he was able to do without interruption. He had rea- 
son to congratulate himself on their state, though they had been 
for more than four weeks shut up from light and air, when cutting 
