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I shall beat up the woods to-morrow with my men, and may my patron, Saint Lorenzo, return again to his gridiron if we do not date our first success in quinine-hunting from this very hillock of Huaynapata!" The above style of threatening the saints is thought very efficacious in all Spanish countries.
It was on the top of Huaynapata, while the interpreters built a fire and prepared for supper a peccary killed upon the road, that Marcoy observed the examinador holding with his Bolivians a conversation in the Aymara dialect, in which could be detected such words as anaranjada and morada. These were the well-known commercial names of two species of cinchona.
After a slippery descent of the side of Huaynapata and the passage of a considerable number of babbling streams each of which gave new occasion for the colonel to show his ingenuity in getting over dry shod, and so sparing his threatening rheumatism the cry of "Sausipata!" was uttered by Pepe Garcia.
It was not until after passing the elevated site of San Pedro, and clambering up the slippery shoulders of the hill called Huaynapata the crossing of half a dozen intervening streamlets going for nothing that the explorers were rewarded with a sight of their Canaan, the bark-producing region. To attain this summit of Huaynapata, however, the little tributary of Mendoza had to be first got over.
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