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TREASURE 513
species of Ochroma (of the N.O. Bombacese). They begin to be
found as soon as we reach a hot climate, say from 3000 feet
elevation downwards.
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"Rundu," sleet; thus Rundu-uma," Sleety Head.
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Rasu
is snow, and occurs in " Chimbu-rasu," " Caraguai-rasu "
(Carguairago),
and many other names. The vulgar name for snow as
it falls is " Papa-cara," i.e. potato peelings.
" Pucara " indicates the site of a hill-fort of the Incas, of which
a great many are scattered through the Quitonian Andes.
CRITICAL NOTE BY THE EDITOR
The preceding account of the various routes of
the gold-seekers among the Llanganati Mountains
leads to the conclusion that only the earliest that
led by the Corregidor of Tacunga and the friar
Padre Longo made any serious attempt to follow
the explicit directions of the " Guide," since the
others departed from it so early in the journey as
the great black lake " Yana Cocha," going
to the
left instead of to the right of it. No doubt they
were either deceived by Indian guides who assured
them that they knew an easier way, or went in
search of rich mines rather than of buried treasure.
The first party, however, and those who afterwards
followed it, kept to the route, as clearly described, to
the sleeping-place beyond the deep ravine where
Padre Longo was lost ; but
beyond this point they
went wrong by crossing the river, and thus leaving
the district of the three volcanoes, which twice at
the beginning of the " Guide" are indicated as the
of the treasure.
locality
Although no route to these mountains is marked
on the map, Spruce tells us that other parties did
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