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514 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
take the proper course, and found the " deep dry
ravine "
(marked on the map as " Quebrada honda "),
and after it the mountain of Margasitas ;
but
here
they were all puzzled by the.
" "
Guide directing
them to leave the mountain on their left while the
hieroglyph seems to leave it on the right, and following
this latter instruction they have failed afterwards
to find any of the other marks given by
Valverde in his " Guide." Spruce himself suggests
that the upper part of the Rivera de los Llanganatis
(which is outside the portion of the map here given)
is the " way of the Inca " referred to in the " Guide."
But this is going quite beyond the area of the three
mountains, so clearly stated as the objective of the
" Guide."
It seems to me, however, that there is really no
contradiction between the " Guide " and the map,
and that the route so clearly pointed out in the
former has not yet been thoroughly explored to its
termination, as I will now endeavour to show.
After crossing the deep dry ravine (" Quebrada
honda " of the map), we are directed to "go forward
and look for the signs of another sleeping-place."
"
Then, the next day Go on thy way, and thou
shalt see a mountain which is all of margasitas, the
which leave on thy left hand." But looking at the
map we shall see that the mountain will now be on
the right hand, supposing we have gone on in the
same direction as before, crossing the deep ravine.
The next words, however, explain this apparent
contradiction : they are
"
and I warn thee that
thou must go round it in this fashion," with the ex-
planatory hieroglyph, which, if we take the circle to
be the mountain and the right-hand termination of