6o NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
as the Cinchonas, some of which it sufficiently 
resembles in both leaves and flowers, but differs 
generically in the seeds being wingless ; and the 
bark, although slightly bitter, has none of the febri- 
fugal and antiperiodic properties of the Cinchonas. 
There had not been wanting people on the spot who 
warned Don Luis of his mistake ; but he was too 
opinionated to listen to them, and persevered to his 
disastrous overthrow. 
My host at Lamas was the venerable vicar, 
Padre Antonio Reategui, and he must needs have 
me stay all the following day with him ; but the 
time was not lost to me, for I botanised the whole 
hill-top, made a sketch of the curious town, and on 
the two evenings of my stay profited by the intelli- 
gent conversation of the Padre. It was from him 
I got the first trustworthy account of the mountain 
I was bent on visiting. A small colony had recently 
been established on the flanks of the Campana, con- 
sisting of an Indian named Chumbi and his family, 
and of his two sisters, their husbands and young 
children. To Chumbi the Padre gave me a letter 
of recommendation, and assured me I should find 
in his hut at least good shelter, and store of plantains 
to eat along with my charqui. 
Having lingered so long at Lamas, I must 
hasten over the remainder of the journey. On the 
22nd we reached Tabalosos, a small Indian village 
on the opposite side of the deep valley of the Mayo, 
and at about the same distance from Lamas as 
Tarapoto. At Tabalosos I passed the night in the 
house of some relations of Chumbi, my bed being 
merely a hide spread on the earthen floor, like those 
of the other inmates. The next day's journey was 
