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species of Ochroma (of the N.O. Bombacese). They begin to be 
found as soon as we reach a hot cHmate, say from 3000 feet 
elevation downwards. 
"Rundu," sleet; thus "Rundu-uma," Sleety Head. "Rasu" 
is snow, and occurs in " Chimbu-rasu," " Caraguai-rasu " (Car- 
guairago), and many other names. The vulgar name for snow as 
it falls is "Papa-cara," i.e. potato peelings. 
" Pucara " indicates the site of a hill-fort of the Incas, of which 
a great many are scattered through the Quitonian Andes. 
Critical Note by the Editor 
The preceding account of the various routes of 
the gold-seekers among the Llanganati Mountains 
leads to the conclusion that only the earliest — that 
led by the Corregidor of Tacunga and the friar 
Padre Longo — ^made any serious attempt to follow 
the explicit directions of the " Guide," since the 
others departed from it so early in the journey as 
the great black lake " Yana Cocha," going to the 
left instead of to the right of it. No doubt they 
were either deceived by Indian guides who assured 
them that they knew an easier way, or went in 
search of rich mines rather than of buried treasure. 
The first party, however, and those who afterwards 
followed it, kept to the route, as clearly described, to 
the sleeping-place beyond the deep ravine where 
Padre Longo was lost ; but beyond this point they 
went wrong by crossing the river, and thus leaving 
the district of the three volcanoes, which twice at 
the beginning of the " Guide" are indicated as the 
locality of the treasure. 
Although no route to these mountains is marked 
on the map. Spruce tells us that other parties did 
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