350 NOTES OF A BOTANIST chap. 
reached Banos along with the two men, and as the 
branches, etc., of the Canelo were stowed in two 
baskets of Ishpingo, he sold the Ishpingo (which 
was then at 22 reals the pound) and threw away 
.the branches, which were of no value to him. 
Nobody knows what has become of him ; but 
I was almost at my wits' end. 
The second time I made a treaty with Pedro 
Andicho, the Governor of Pindo (a few Indian 
huts in the middle of the Forest of Canelos), who 
was going there to make lance-shafts for the war 
that menaced us at that epoch, and I gave him 
three frascos (large square bottles) prepared accord- 
ing to your directions. I paid him in advance 
four dollars, and made him several presents — a gun 
among the rest — that he might deliver the frascos 
filled with specimens to Padre Fierro. He had 
scarcely reached Pindo when he died, and though 
I have again and again solicited Padre Fierro to 
recover the frascos, he has found it impossible. 
I wrote to him also asking him to send me the 
branchlets in paper (as you used to prepare them), 
which indeed he took the trouble to do, and sent 
them by some Indians who were going to Banos, 
but who threw them into the river, so that they 
never reached me. How unfortunate I have been ! 
On the 8th of December last year I gave four 
dollars to Pedro Valladares, with a written agree- 
ment that he should obtain for me the desired 
objects. He goes to Canelos, starts on the return 
journey, and is stopped by death, and none of his 
effects have been recovered ! 
After this I made a treaty with Manuel Meneses 
for two dollars — as can be proved by my books — 
