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Selections, 



[NO. £, NEW SEMES; 



each packet was wrapped in the bark of Pisang stalks, and fasten- 

 ed with sackcloth, and made into small bales, somewhat resem- 

 bling wool-bales, as those in which goods are forwarded on the 

 llamas from the interior to the coast. The Pisang stalks necessary 

 for this packing had to be fetched from the lowlands, on the 

 shoulders of Indians ; the moss, which did not grow at Sandia, was 

 obtained in the mountain districts ; all which, on account of the 

 awkwardness and laziness of the Indians, cost much pains, time, 

 and money. 



" But with the greatest difficulty was the necessary rope obtain- 

 ed. Four persons were sent into the lower woodlands to collect 

 bark, and work it up so as to serve for rope. Strong cords were 

 required to bind the packages on the beasts of burden; these were 

 ordered at Cruzero, and in this Mr. Hasskarl met with cordial co- 

 operation. The collecting of so many mules in this solitary and 

 out-of-the-way place was no slight matter : they were weak ani- 

 mals that could not carry half the weight the mules of Arequipa 

 were able to bear on their backs. 



"After a legion of difficulties of divers kinds, too many and too 

 various to sum up here, the expedition started from Sandia on the 

 8th of June. 



" It seemed however as if the difficulties would never come to an 

 end. The animals were driven forward as fast as possible, but it 

 was necessary, for the sake of the plants, to shorten the way as 

 as much as it could be. From early in the morning till late in the 

 evening they travelled on, almost without interruption, to leave the 

 hill-country, with its extreme changes of temperature, behind, and 

 to get as far off the highway as possible, that the cavalcade might 

 incur no risk from the numbers of troops, who took possession of 

 all transports as contraband of war, and that the plants, which were 

 threatened with many dangers from that cause, might arrive in 

 safety. 



" Arrived at Azangora, they learned that no beasts of burden 

 were to be obtained, as they were all required by the insurgents 

 belonging to the party of Castilla, to carry muskets brought from 

 Bolivia to Cuzco ; whereas other drivers had taken the district of 



