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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 went by Islay to Cal- 

 lao, and thence direct to Java. 



" 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 anived 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 



