cateadores

Updated: May 24, 2025

In the month of May, a number of Indians set out together, some of whom, of greatest experience, who are called cateadores, or searchers, climb the highest trees to spy out the manchas, or spots where the chinchona groups are growing, distinguishing them merely by a slight difference in the tints from the dark-green of the surrounding foliage.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Manco, the Peruvian Chief: An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas