Lippincotts Magazine, February 1873

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Title: Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23,
February, 1873, Vol. XI.
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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

FEBRUARY, 1873.
Vol. XI., No. 23.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SEARCHING FOR THE QUININE-PLANT IN PERU. Concluding
Paper.
A GLANCE AT THE SITE AND ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS By
J.L.T. PHILLIPS.
COMMONPLACE By CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON.
PROBATIONER LEONHARD; OR, THREE NIGHTS IN THE
HAPPY VALLEY By CAROLINE CHESEBRO.

Chapter IV
.--The Test--With Mental Reservations.

Chapter V
.--Sister Benigna.

Chapter VI
.--The Men Of Spenersberg.

Chapter VII
.--The Book.

Chapter VIII
.--Conference Meeting.

Chapter IX

.--Will The Architect Have Employment?
COUNTRY-HOUSE LIFE IN ENGLAND By REGINALD
WYNFORD.
THE FOREST OF ARDEN By ITA ANIOL PROKOP.
JACK, THE REGULAR By THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.
OBSERVATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN SUBMARINE DIVING
By WILL WALLACE HARNEY.
CONFIDENTIAL.
GLIMPSES OF JOHN CHINAMAN By PRENTICE MULFORD.
A WINTER REVERIE By MILLIE W. CARPENTER.
"PASSPORTS, GENTLEMEN!" By A.H.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
The Cornwallis Family.
Novelties In Ethnology.
The Steam-whistle.
Siamese News.
Madison As A Temperance Man.
NOTES.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received.

ILLUSTRATIONS
The Cones of Patabamba.
"Pepe Garcia, Who Marched Ahead, Announced the Print Of A South
American Tiger."
"Napoleon-like, They Washed Their Dirty Linen in The Family"
"Aragon and his Men Fell Upon the Deserters Without Mercy."
"They Greeted These Indian Relics As Crusoe Did The Footprints of
the Savages."
"Another Savage Had Found a Pair of Linen Pantaloons."
View of the Acropolis and The Columns Of The Temple Of Jupiter
Olympus.
Theatre of Dionysus (Bacchus).
Victory Untying Her Sandals.
Temple of Victory.
The Parthenon.
Bas Relief of the Gods (Frieze Of The Parthenon).

Porch of the Caryatides.
Monument of Lysicrates.

SEARCHING FOR THE QUININE-PLANT IN PERU.
CONCLUDING PAPER.
Early on a brilliant morning, with baggage repacked, and the lessening
amount of provisions more firmly strapped on the shoulders of the
Indians, the explorers left their pleasant site on the banks of the Maniri.
The repose allowed to the bulk of the party during the absence of their
Bolivian companions had been wholesome and refreshing. The success
of the bark-hunters in their search for cinchonas had cheered all hearts,
and the luxurious supper of dried mutton and chuno arranged for them
on their return gave a reminiscence of splendor to the thatched hut on
the banks of the stream. This edifice, the last of civilized construction
they expected to see, had the effect of a home in the wilderness. The
bivouac there had been enjoyed with a sentiment of tranquil
carelessness. Little did the travelers think that savage eyes had been
peeping through the forest upon their fancied security, and that the wild
people of the valleys who were to work them all kinds of mischief were
upon their track from this station forth.
The enormous fire kindled for breakfast mingled with the stain of
sunrise to cast a glow upon their departure. Across the vale of the
Cconi, as though a pair of sturdy porters had arisen to celebrate their
leavetaking, the cones of Patabamba caught the first rays of the sun and
held them aloft like hospitable torches. These huge forms, soldered
together at the waist like Chang and Eng, and clothed with shaggy
woods up to the top, had been the guardian watchers over their days in
the ajoupa at Maniri. The sun just rising empurpled their double cones,
while the base and the surrounding landscape were washed with the
neutral tints of twilight.
After passing the narrow affluent after which the camping-ground of
Maniri was named, the party pursued the course of the Cconi through a
more level tract of country. The stones and precipices became more
rare, but in revenge the sandy banks soon began to reflect a heat that
was hardly bearable. As the implacable sun neared its zenith the party
walked with bent heads and blinded eyes, now dashing through great
plains of bamboos, now following the hatchets of the peons through

thickets of heated shrubbery.
Whenever the country became more wooded in its character, the
bark-hunters, whose quest obliged them to stray in short flights around
the wings of