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Cinchona  Ledgeriana. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharnn. 
1      Mar.,  1881. 
liad  accompanied  nie  there  as  slieplierds  of  the  alj^tacas,  I  bought  200' 
Spanish  dollars,  and  said  to  him:  "  You  will  give  these  to  your  father. 
Tell  him  I  count  on  his  keeping  his  j^romise  to  get  for  me  40  pounds  to  50 
pounds  of  rogo  cinchona  (white  flower)  seed.  He  must  get  it  from  trees- 
we  had  sat  under  together  when  trying  to  reach  the  Mamore  river  in  1851;: 
to  give  my  kindest  remembrances  (and  small  present)  to  Fra  Simon,  curate 
in  the  Apolo  missions  ;  to  meet  me  at  Tacna  (Peru)  by  May,  1863 ;  if  not 
bringing  pure,  ripe  rogo  seed,  flowers  and  leaves,  never  to  look  for  me- 
again  ;  should  I  not  have  arrived  from  Australia,  to  give  seed,  etc.,  to  my 
daughters,  who  would  give  him  $400."  In  June,  1863,  he  sent  a  nephew 
to  my  children  at  Tacna  asking  for  $200,  saying  he  had  not  then  collected 
seed  for  the  patron,  but  by  next  season  would  do  so  if  well  ripe  and  not 
hurt  by  frost. 
I  arrived  back  in  Tacna  on  the  5th  of  January,  1865,  after  separation  of 
twelve  years  from  my  home  and  children,  completely  ruined  hy  the  intro- 
duction of  the  alpaca  into  the  Australian  colonies  turning  out  a  faihire. 
I  at  once  sent  message  to  Manuel,  informing  him  of  my  arrival.  At 
the  end  of  May  he  arrived  with  his  precious  seed.  It  is  only  now  some 
twenty-four  years  after  poor  Manuel  promised  not  to  deceive  me ;  manifest 
how  faithfully  and  loyallj^  he  kept  his  promise.  I  say  poor  Manuel 
because,  as  you  know,  he  lost  his  life  while  trying  to  get  another  supply 
of  the  same  class  of  seed  for  me  in  1872-3.  You  are  aware,  too,  how  later  on 
I  lost  another  old  Indian  friend,  poor  Poli,  when  bringing  seed  and  flowers- 
in  1877. 
I  feel  thoroughly  convinced  in  my  own  mind  that  such  astonishingly 
rich  quinine-yielding  trees  as  those  in  Java  are  not  known  to  exist  (in  any 
quantity)  in  Bolivia.  These  wonderful  trees  are  only  to  be  found  in  the 
Caupolican  district,  and,  as  rightly  stated  by  Mr.  Joliii  Eliot  Howard, 
F.R.S.,  are  only  to  be  met  with  in  eastern  Yungas.  The  white  flower  is 
specially  belonging  to  the  cinchona  "  rogo  "  of  Apolo. 
You  will  call  to  mind,  no  doubt,  the  very  great  dilficulties  you  had  to- 
get  this  wonderful  "  seed  "  looked  at  even  ;  how  a  i)art  was  purchased  by 
Mr.  Money  for  account  of  our  East  Indian  Government  for  £50,  under  con- 
dition of  10,000  germinating.  Though  60,000  plants  were  successfully  raised 
from  it  by  the  late  Mr.  M'lvor,  I  only  received  the  £50. 
The  seed  taken  by  the  Netherlands  Government  cost  it  barely  £50.  I 
have  recently  received  advice  from  the  courteous  Minister  for  the  Colo- 
nies, that  he  proposes  to  submit  to  the  State  General  that  £100  be  awarded 
to  me. 
I  see  by  "  The  Field  "  you  sent  me,  containing  some  account  of  the  propa- 
gation of  cinchona  in  Java,  that  u])  to  this  time  the  seed  collected  from 
best  specimens  has  been  so  well  propagated  that  there  are  now  707,670 
Ledgerianas  possessed  hj  the  government.  At  Id.  each  that  would  give 
£2,948,  12s.,  6d.  ;  at  4  jDOunds  of  bark  i^er  tree,  at  low  price  of  8s.  per  pound,. 
£1,132,272.  Seeing  the  immense  present  and  future  wealth  resulting  from 
my  seed,  I  cannot  sometimes  help  thinking  that  I  am  another  illustration 
of  the  axiom  that  "  inventors  are  always  losers."  As  far  as  I  am  con- 
cerned, I  lose  in  money,  having  spent  more  than  £600,  without  taking  inta 
