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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... roots , flowers , and capsules of the chinchona - trees have a bitter taste with tonic properties , but the upper bark is the only part which has any commercial value . The bark of trees is composed of four layers - the epiderm , the ...
... roots , flowers , and capsules of the chinchona - trees have a bitter taste with tonic properties , but the upper bark is the only part which has any commercial value . The bark of trees is composed of four layers - the epiderm , the ...
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... root - shoot , or from a seed . He describes the luxuriance of the vegetation to be such that the younger trees , only six inches in diameter , often attain from fifty - three to sixty - four English feet in height . " This beautiful ...
... root - shoot , or from a seed . He describes the luxuriance of the vegetation to be such that the younger trees , only six inches in diameter , often attain from fifty - three to sixty - four English feet in height . " This beautiful ...
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... root ; the leaves as lanceolate , shining on both sides , with veins a rosy colour , a short and tender pubescence on the under side when young , and when past maturity a bright scarlet colour ; the bark black when exposed to the sun ...
... root ; the leaves as lanceolate , shining on both sides , with veins a rosy colour , a short and tender pubescence on the under side when young , and when past maturity a bright scarlet colour ; the bark black when exposed to the sun ...
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... roots , while the annual burning of the slopes , and the continual cropping of the young shoots by cattle , assist the work of destruction.3 It is , therefore , well that the C. Chahuarguera and C. Uritusinga , the earliest known and ...
... roots , while the annual burning of the slopes , and the continual cropping of the young shoots by cattle , assist the work of destruction.3 It is , therefore , well that the C. Chahuarguera and C. Uritusinga , the earliest known and ...
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... roots become infected . But it is only necessary to observe the precaution of hewing the stem as near as possible to the root , in order to be sure of its after - growth . After six years , near Cuchero , the young stems may already be ...
... roots become infected . But it is only necessary to observe the precaution of hewing the stem as near as possible to the root , in order to be sure of its after - growth . After six years , near Cuchero , the young stems may already be ...
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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.