498 NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
Pastasa, below the mouth of the Patate, for eight 
months, we came successively on six small fumaroli, 
from which a stream of thin smoke is constantly 
issuing. People who live on the opposite side of 
the valley assert that they sometimes see flame 
hovering over these holes by night. The inhabit- 
ants of the existing farm of Juivi complain to me 
that they have been several times alarmed of late 
(especially during the months of October and 
November 1859) by the mountain ''bramando" 
(roaring) at night. The volcano is plainly, there- 
fore, only dormant, not extinct, and both Tungu- 
ragua and the Llanganatis may any day resume 
their activity. 
[Here follows a rather elaborate description of the 
various rivers and their tributaries as shown on the 
map, which, being of little interest to the general 
reader, are omitted. Of the map generally, Spruce 
makes the following observation : — ] 
As the great mineral districts of Llanganati, 
occupying the northern half of the map, was 
repeatedly travelled over by Guzman himself, it is 
fuller of minute detail than the rest ; and I am 
assured by those who have visited the actual 
localities that not one of them is misplaced on the 
map ; but the southern portion is much dislocated ; 
and, as I have traversed the whole of it, I will 
proceed to make some remarks and corrections on 
this part of the map. 
[As these corrections are accessible to all specially 
interested, and will no doubt be made use of in 
compiling future maps of Ecuador, I omit these 
also, and pass on to a description of the map itself, 
and to the remarkable document which it illustrates.] 
