502 NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
comes a waterfall : and here thou shalt find a bridge 
of three poles, or if it do not still exist thou shalt 
put another in the most convenient place and pass 
over it. And having gone on a little way in the 
forest, seek out the hut which served to sleep in 
or the remains of it. Having passed the night 
there, go on thy way the following day through 
the forest in the same direction, till thou reach 
another deep dry ravine, across which thou must 
throw a bridge and pass over it slowly and 
cautiously, for the ravine is very deep ; that is, if 
thou succeed not in finding the pass which exists. 
Go forward and look for the signs of another 
sleeping-place, which, I assure thee, thou canst not 
fail to see in the fragments of pottery and other 
marks, because the Indians are continually passing 
along there. Go on thy way, and thou shalt see a 
mountain which is all of margasitas (pyrites), the 
which leave on thy left hand, and I warn thee that 
thou must go round it in this fashion (9^. On 
this side thou wilt find a pajonal (pasture) in a 
small plain, which having crossed thou wilt come 
on a canon between two hills, which is the Way of 
the Inca. From thence as thou goest along thou 
shalt see the entrance of the socabon (tunnel), 
which is in the form of a church porch. Having 
come through the canon and gone a good distance 
beyond, thou wilt perceive a cascade which descends 
from an ofTshoot of the Cerro Llanganati and runs 
into a quaking-bog on the right hand ; and without 
passing the stream in the said bog there is much 
gold, so that putting in thy hand what thou shalt 
gather at the bottom is grains of gold. To ascend 
the mountain, leave the bog and go along to the 
