Travels in Peru and India, While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction Into IndiaMurray, 1862 - 572 páginas |
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... rising above all the other trees of the forest . The leaves are oblong or lanceolate - obovate , pitted in the axils of the veins , with a shining green surface , and reddish veins . The flowers , which hang in large panicles , are a ...
... rising above all the other trees of the forest . The leaves are oblong or lanceolate - obovate , pitted in the axils of the veins , with a shining green surface , and reddish veins . The flowers , which hang in large panicles , are a ...
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... rising , slender , tall stem , devoid of side branches ; whilst , when they stand on clear open spots , they grow much stronger in width and thickness , but are shorter , and have numerous side branches . The following is Dr. Junghuhn's ...
... rising , slender , tall stem , devoid of side branches ; whilst , when they stand on clear open spots , they grow much stronger in width and thickness , but are shorter , and have numerous side branches . The following is Dr. Junghuhn's ...
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... rising up on either side , here and there a tall gaunt cactus , and everywhere a dense cloud of white dust , leads up to a little post - house built of canes , called the " Tambo de Guer- reros , " eighteen miles from Islay . Guerreros ...
... rising up on either side , here and there a tall gaunt cactus , and everywhere a dense cloud of white dust , leads up to a little post - house built of canes , called the " Tambo de Guer- reros , " eighteen miles from Islay . Guerreros ...
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... rising upwards of 16,000 feet from the point on which we stood : of no other mountains in the world could such a view be obtained . In this land of the Incas Nature has done her work on a truly gigantic scale . The desert , from ...
... rising upwards of 16,000 feet from the point on which we stood : of no other mountains in the world could such a view be obtained . In this land of the Incas Nature has done her work on a truly gigantic scale . The desert , from ...
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... rising of the Peruvian Indians in the end of the last century than has yet appeared in Europe ; although , as this interesting subject is a digression from the main purpose of the present work , I shall be obliged to com- press my ...
... rising of the Peruvian Indians in the end of the last century than has yet appeared in Europe ; although , as this interesting subject is a digression from the main purpose of the present work , I shall be obliged to com- press my ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.