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NOTES OF A BOTANIST
reached Banos along with the two men, and as the
branches, etc., of the Canelo were stowed in two
baskets of Ishpingo, he sold the Ishpingo (which
was then at 22 reals the pound) and threw away
the branches, which were of no value to him.
Nobody ;
knows what has become of him but
I was almost at my wits' end.
The second time I made a treaty with Pedro
Andicho, the Governor of Pindo (a few Indian
huts in the middle of the Forest of Canelos), who
was going there to make lance-shafts for the war
that menaced us at that epoch, and I gave him
three frascos (large square bottles) prepared accord-
him in advance
ing to your directions. I paid
four dollars, and made him several presents a gun
among the rest that he filled with specimens to
might deliver the frascos
Padre Fierro. He had
scarcely reached Pindo when he died, and though
I have again and again solicited Padre Fierro to
recover the frascos, he has found it impossible.
I wrote to him also asking him to send me the
branchlets in paper (as you used to prepare them),
which indeed he took the trouble to do, and sent
them by some Indians who were going to Banos,
but who threw them into the river, so that they
never reached me. How unfortunate I have been !
On the 8th of December last year I gave four
dollars to Pedro Valladares, with a written agreement
that he should obtain for me the desired
objects. He goes to Canelos, starts on the return
journey, and is stopped by death, and none of his
effects have been recovered !
After this I made a treaty with Manuel Meneses
for two dollars as can be proved by my books