Travels in Peru and India, While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction Into India |
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... never yet been described by any English traveller ; and the first part of the work is occupied by an account of the various species of Chinchona - plants and their pre- vious history , a narrative of my travels in Peru , and a record of ...
... never yet been described by any English traveller ; and the first part of the work is occupied by an account of the various species of Chinchona - plants and their pre- vious history , a narrative of my travels in Peru , and a record of ...
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... never- failing remedy for " tertiana . " It was administered to the Countess and effected a complete cure ; and Mr. Howard is of opinion that the particular plant which had this honour , and which , therefore , yields the true and ...
... never- failing remedy for " tertiana . " It was administered to the Countess and effected a complete cure ; and Mr. Howard is of opinion that the particular plant which had this honour , and which , therefore , yields the true and ...
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... never enforced , and sixty years afterwards Humboldt reported that 25,000 trees were destroyed in one year . 66 The measures adopted by the Spanish Government towards the end of the last century , in sending botanical expeditions to ...
... never enforced , and sixty years afterwards Humboldt reported that 25,000 trees were destroyed in one year . 66 The measures adopted by the Spanish Government towards the end of the last century , in sending botanical expeditions to ...
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... never descending below an elevation of 2500 , and ascending as high as 9000 feet above the sea . Within these limits their usual companions are tree ferns , melastomaceæ , arborescent passion - flowers , and allied genera of ...
... never descending below an elevation of 2500 , and ascending as high as 9000 feet above the sea . Within these limits their usual companions are tree ferns , melastomaceæ , arborescent passion - flowers , and allied genera of ...
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... never been found either in Cumana or Mexico ; and he suggests that this may be accounted for by the breaks which take place in Venezuela on the one hand , and on the isthmus of Panama on the other , where tracts of country of low ...
... never been found either in Cumana or Mexico ; and he suggests that this may be accounted for by the breaks which take place in Venezuela on the one hand , and on the isthmus of Panama on the other , where tracts of country of low ...
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alkaloids amongst Arequipa Aymara Azangaro Badagas bark Bolivia botanist Brahmins Cacique Calisaya called Caravaya cascarilla chinchona chinchona forests chinchona-plants chinchona-trees climate coast coca collected commenced Coonoor Coorg cordillera corregidors cotton covered cultivation cura Cuzco descended dollars elevation febrifugal feet high flowers ghaut Government grassy growing Hasskarl height Huanuco Inca Inca Tupac Amaru Indians Islay Java José Juliaca lake lake Titicaca land leagues leaves Lima Loxa Madura Malabar McIvor micrantha miles mita mountains mules Mysore native Neilgherry hills Ootacamund Paucartambo Pavon peaks Peru Peruvian plain plantations plants province Pulneys Puno Quichua quinine quinquina rain ravine red-bark region river road rock round Sandia seeds sent side Sispara Siva slopes soil South America Spaniards Spanish species of chinchona Spruce stone succirubra supply Tambopata Titicaca town trees Tungasuca Tupac Amaru valley valuable species viceroy village Wardian Weddell yield young
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Page 227 - Crimes were once so little known among them that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house left it open, only placing a little stick across the door as a sign that the master was out, and nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed locks and keys on our doors, they understood that it was from fear of thieves, and when they saw that we had thieves amongst us, they despised us.
Page 227 - Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.
Page 7 - Locke's and all our ingeniouse and able doctors' method " of treating this disease with the Peruvian bark ; adding, " I am satisfied, that of all medicines, if it be good of its kind, and properly given, it is the most innocent and effectual, whatever bugbear the world makes of it, especially the tribe of inferior physicians, from whom it cuts off so much business and gain.
Page 404 - The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with the country people, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the wild creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take them and put honey in their place, but they will allow no one to come near them.
Page 345 - A man's moveable property, after his death, is divided equally among the sons and daughters of all his sisters. His landed estate is managed by the eldest male of the family; but each individual has a right to a share of the income.
Page 255 - They are the size of large pigeons, with orangescarlet feathers on the head, neck, breast, and tail, black wings, light-grey back, and scarlet crest. They have a shrill, harsh cry. The butterflies and moths were numerous and brilliant, but so tame, and in such swarms, as to be a perfect plague. There was one bright swallowtail, with blue wings, fringed with crimson. The torments from venomous insects were maddening ; especially from a kind of fly which in a moment raised swellings and blood-red lumps...
Page 45 - Humboldt reported that 25,000 chinchona-trees were destroyed every year, and Ruiz § protested against the custom of barking the trees, and leaving them to be destroyed by rot. But nothing was ever done in the way of conservancy, either by the Government, or by private speculators whose subsistence depended on a continued supply of bark.
Page 4 - In 1638 the wife of Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace at Lima.