. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon. the transit across the mountains that it is seldomused. We were present when a merchant unpacked some boxes of IFrench wines and sweet oil. Every fourth bottle was broken, and some Ibottles empty. This loss was deducted from the pay of the arriero. The \poor man looked sad at the smallness of his receipts after fourteen dayslabor over the mountains from the coast. French articles excite thefancy of the people very much, such as work-boxes, cigar cases, fmicylace. The women sometimes buy, for the sake of getting the prettypaper boxes the French put the
. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon. the transit across the mountains that it is seldomused. We were present when a merchant unpacked some boxes of IFrench wines and sweet oil. Every fourth bottle was broken, and some Ibottles empty. This loss was deducted from the pay of the arriero. The \poor man looked sad at the smallness of his receipts after fourteen dayslabor over the mountains from the coast. French articles excite thefancy of the people very much, such as work-boxes, cigar cases, fmicylace. The women sometimes buy, for the sake of getting the prettypaper boxes the French put their goods in. Very common glasswaresells well, but costly articles are more or less injured by the journey, andfind few purchasers here. The people are more fond of trade than any jother employment; they seem to take pleasure in buying and sellingagain, and to possess an active industry seldom met with. The great business house in Cochabamba is the bank for the depositand purchase of cinchona bark, gathered along the northeast side of a ii. VrW CINCHONA BANK. 147 ridge in the province of Yuracares. Ths bark was first gathered inquantities in 1849, though known for many years. The best quality is |not quite equal to that of Yungas, but only second to it. There are Ifour other classes of inferior bark, for some of which the bank pays fif- \teen dollars per quintal. The best, by law, is worth fifty-four dollars, iThe freight to Arica is seventeen dollars the mule load of three quintals. ,Six thousand quintals of bark have already been gathered from Yura-cares. The bank was established in the year 1851. Mr. Haenke men-tioned the existence of cinchona bark on his visit to Yuracares in 1796,but it was never closely examined until 1850, when it was found to beof such good quality that the people of Cochabamba endeavored to geta bank established upon an improved plan. This was not agreeable tothose at La Paz, and when the Yuracares bark was sent to that bank tohave its value determined,
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