CONTENTS 
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Goods all left in the forest I — Sugar-mill on Rio Verde 
— Reached Banos — General account of the forest of 
Canelos — Second visit to Mount Abitagua — Notes on 
the vegetation of the forest of Canelos . . -135 
CHAPTER XIX 
BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE ANDES OF ECUADOR : 
AT BANOS AND AMBATO 
List of Excursions — Letter to Mr. Bentham — Spruce's sad 
position at Bahos awaiting his goods from the forest — How- 
he collected mosses on the road — New ferns in abundance 
— Description of Banos — Grand cone of Tunguragua — 
Paper unobtainable — European genera of plants — Letter 
to Mr. Teasdale — Banos, its hot baths, visitors, and earth- 
quakes — To Ambato — Its situation and surroundings — 
Manners and customs of the people — Effects of sand- 
storms — To Riobamba — Dr. James Taylor — Views of 
Chimborazo — Mountain travel — Market-day — Great 
mountains round it — Great cataract of Guandisagua — 
Society in Ambato — Botanical letter to Mr. I^entham — 
To Sir W. Hooker, mostly about Ferns — To Mr. Ben- 
tham on probable number of species in the Amazon valley 
— Spruce's grief at passing new plants ungathered — To 
Sir W. Hooker, about mosses, etc. — To Mr. Bentham, 
about the Venezuelan collections and its rich rivers unex- 
plored — His great indebtedness to Mr. Bentham — To Mr. 
Teasdale about his journeys in the high Andes — Beautiful 
Gentians — Why they cannot be grown in England — An 
escape from a condor — Wishes England possessed the 
Amazon valley . . . . . .171 
CHAPTER XX 
AMBATO AND THE CINCHONA FORESTS OF ALAUSI 
Letter to Mr. Bentham — War with Peru — To Quito and 
forest of Pallatanga — The warm forests far less known 
botanically than the mountains — Letter to Mr. Teasdale, 
