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;6 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
chance of being killed and eaten by the " Infieles
on the Pastasa, or of being prostrated by ague.
I think that on the whole my Maynensian col-
lection may contain as many new genera
as that of
the Uaupes, but proportionately fewer new species.
I have been much interested in it, because to many
plants of Amazonian type it unites a good many
characteristic Peruvian. Such are Weinmannia,
the ivy -like Cornidia (three species), an arbor-
escent Boccinia, the curious Proteaceous genus
Embothrium (one or two species), and several
others.
[The " revolution "
just mentioned in the letter
to Mr. Bentham is more fully described in the
following letter to Mr. Teasdale written a few days
later. This letter also contains an account of some
of the industries of Tarapoto, and serves to com-
plete the rather meagre narrative of Spruce's
residence at this place. There are, however, a
considerable number of "notes" on various aspects
of the town and its inhabitants, and there is even a
list of headings for chapters, showing that he had
the idea of some day writing a very complete account
of the district which was at that time the most
easterly outlier of civilisation in Northern Peru, and
one of the places least known as it still seems
to be to European, or at all events to English
travellers.]
To Mr. John Teasdale
TARAPOTO, PERU, March 16, 1857.
I have been waiting here to proceed to Quito
since November last. Money which I had been
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