IN JAVJ. 



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" Mannol «m never aware of my requiring seed and leaves 

 for [iroprtgating purposes; b« was always told they were 

 wanted to make a special remedy tor a special ilhiesiiS, For 

 nmny vears, sine.e 13-14, 1 bad felt, deeply interested in seeing 

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

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

 quinine. Keuiembering and relying on Manuels prunuse to 

 me in 1850, 1 resolved to do all in my power to obtain the very 

 l>est eiiichoua seed produced in lioUviii, 



"His son l^mtiago went to Australia with me in 1858. In 

 1861, the day before sending back to South America Santiago 

 and tvtber Indians who had aramipanied me there as shepherds 

 of tlie alpacas, I bought 20U iSpanish dollars, and saiil to him : 

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

 keeping liis promise to get for me forty to til'ty pounds of rogo 

 einchona (white ilower) seed. He must get it from trees we 

 had sat under togetber when trying to reach the Mamore 

 river in 1851 ; to meet me at Taena {Peru) by May 1863. If 

 niit bringing pure, riyie rogo seed, flowers and leaves, never to 

 hK)k for me again.' 



1 arrived hack in Taena on the iith of January, 1SC5, I 

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

 arrival. At the end of Hay he arrived with hrs precious seed. 

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

 promised not to deceive me, munifesi how faithfully and 

 loytdJy ho kept his promise. I say poor Manuel, because, 

 as you know, be lost hi5 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. 



-* 1 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 

 wondefi'ul trees are only to be found in the Ciiupolican 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 

 pnrt was purchased by BIr, Jloney for account of our Eiist 

 Indian Government lor i'5t> under condition of 10,OUO 



