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industry. His travels and investigations in India had furnished him 

 with an uncommon measure of experience in travelling, particularly 

 in overcoming the difficulties which so often arise out of the nature 

 of a tropical soil. 



" From his sound judgment and caution there was every reason 

 to believe him particularly fit for this mission ; it is not to be won- 

 dered at, then, that he immediately attracted the Minister's atten- 

 tion who proposed him to the King for this important service. Ex- 

 pectation was not disappointed, as the result has shown, for the ob- 

 ject of Mr. HasskarFs mission to South America has been attained. 



" A plan was prepared and proposed, though he was left to his 

 own judgment and prudence, and was only charged not to confine 

 himself to the Calisaya Quinquina plant, but to collect as many as 

 possible of the other sorts of Quinquina, which are found at vari- 

 ous heights above the level of the sea. He was to go from South- 

 ampton to Charges, and so on over Panama to Guayaquil and Loxa, 

 whence he was to journey inland. To save time, preference was 

 given to the steam-voyage to Panama, above the longer one of 

 doubling Cape Horn, which would have caused a delay of three 

 months at least before the traveller could reach -the places from 

 which he would have to direct his course towards the interior of 

 South America. 



" On the 4th of December, 1852, Mr. Hasskarl left the Nether- 

 lands for Southampton, which he quitted on the 17th of December, 

 on board the steam-boat La Plata, arriving at St. Thomas on the 

 1st of January, 1853 ; on the 12th, at Aspinwall, by Chagres ; and 

 at Panama on the 14th, just three days too late to continue his 

 voyage by the steam-boat that touches at the ports on the west 

 coast of South America. 



" Being thus detained, he on the 25th continued his route to 

 Payta, to go thence to Guayaquil. With the knowledge however 

 that the rainy season would render his journey fruitless, he chang- 

 ed his plan and went to Lima. 



" In the beginning of May he ascended the first, and then the se- 

 cond Cordilleras, thence he descended into the lower part of Peru. 



