Guayaquil

And thither indeed men came, a family or so of Peruvian half-breeds fleeing from the lust and tyranny of an evil Spanish ruler.

Then came the stupendous outbreak of Mindobamba, when it was night in Quito for seventeen days, and the water was boiling at Yaguachi, and all the fish floating dying even as far as Guayaquil.

Everywhere along the Pacific slopes there were landslips and swift thawings and sudden floods, and one whole side of the old Arauca crest slipped and came down in thunder, and cut off the country of the blind forever from the exploring feet of men.

But one of these early settlers had chanced to be on the hither side of the gorges when the world had so terribly shaken itself, and he perforce had to forget his wife and his child and all the friends and possessions he had left up there, and start life over again in the lower world.

And like, first of all, like introduce them because they were like many different kinds of foods that people in the city had never tried or even seen.

So it's been, I guess, a 15-year-long process of them reaching out to chefs in Quito, in Guayaquil, in Cuenca, and getting them familiarized with what these things are, how you can cook them, what's their value also.

the food chain, production chain.

And it's been like very, you know, little by little that they've done what they've done.

On the 1st of April, they saw the red appearance in the sea mentioned before.

On the 2nd, they took two small prizes, but this being only trifling work and regarded as a loss of time, they came to the resolution of landing and making an attempt upon Guayaquil.

On the 15th, they saw a French ship belonging to Lima and sent two boats well manned to capture her.

She stood well on her defense.

The captains Rogers and Courtney left the two barks, and pulled for the island of Puna, where they hid their boats under the mangrove branches until evening, when they seized two bark logs and all the canoes lying there.

But an Indian made his escape and alarmed the town, yet they succeeded in securing the lieutenant and twenty others, while the remainder escaped into the neighboring woods.

On the twenty-second, before one in the morning, they arrived before Guayaquil in their boats with a hundred and ten men on board.

They judged the town had got the alarm, as they saw a great fire on the top of an adjoining hill, and a great many lights in the streets.

Colonel Staunton of Ingham University, Leroy, New York, F. S. Williams, Esquire of Albany, New York, and Messrs. P. V. Myers and A. Bushnell of Williams College.

We sailed from New York July first, 1867, and after crossing the Isthmus of Panama and touching at Paita, Peru, our general route was from Guayaquil to Quito over the eastern cordillera, thence over the western cordillera and through the forests on foot to Napo, down the Rio Napo by canoe to Pibas on the Marañon, and thence by steamer to Para.

Nearly the entire region traversed by the expedition is strangely misrepresented by most recent geographical works.

On the Andes of Ecuador, we have little besides the travels of Humboldt on the Napo, nothing, while the Marañon is less known to North Americans than the Nile.

Unlike the usual portrait, an old man in Berlin, this presents him as a young man in Prussian uniform traveling on the Andes.

We desire to express our grateful acknowledgments to the Smithsonian Institution, the Honorable William H. Seward, Honorable James A. Garfield of Washington, to Cyrus W.

Field, Esquire, and William Pitt Palmer, Esquire, of New York, to C.P. Williams, Esquire, of Albany, to Reverend J.C. Fletcher, now United States Consul at Apoorto, to Chaplain Jones of Philadelphia, to Dr. William Jameson of the University of Quito, to J.F. Reeve, Esquire, and Captain Lee of Guayaquil, to the Pacific Mail Steamship Panama Railroad and South Pacific Steam Navigation Companies, to the officers of the Peruvian and Brazilian steamers on the Amazon, and to the eminent naturalists who have examined the results of the expedition.

Note.

I saw it all from first to last.

I was on the steamer Ecuador from Panama to Guayaquil.

Maria Valenzuela is my cousin.

i have known her always she is very beautiful i am a spaniard an ecuadoriano true but i am descended from pedro patino who was one of pizarro's captains they were brave men they were heroes did not pizarro lead three hundred and fifty spanish cavaliers and four thousand indians into the far cordilleras in search of treasure and did not all the four thousand indians and three hundred of the brave cavaliers die on that vain quest but pedro patino did not die he it was that lived to found the family of the patino i am ecuadoriano true but i am spanish i am manuel de jesus patino i own many haciendas and ten thousand indians are my slaves though the law says they are free men who work by freedom of contract the law is a funny thing we ecuadorianos laugh at it it is our law we make it for ourselves i am manuel de jesus patino remember that name it will be written some day in history there are revolutions in ecuador we call them elections it is a good joke is it not what you call a pun john harned was an american i met him first at the tivoli hotel in panama he had much money this i have heard he was going to lima but he met maria valenzuela in the tivoli hotel maria valenzuela is my cousin and she is beautiful it is true she is the most beautiful woman in ecuador but also she is most beautiful in every country in paris in madrid in new york in vienna always do all men look at her and john harned looked long at her in panama he loved her that i know for a fact she was ecuadoriano true but she was of all countries she was of all the world she spoke many languages she sang ah like an artiste her smile wonderful divine her eyes ah have i not seen men look in her eyes they were what you english call amazing they were promises of paradise men drowned themselves in her eyes maria valenzuela was rich richer than i who am accounted very rich in ecuador but John Harned did not care for her money.

He was a fool.

He did not go to Lima.

He left the steamer at Guayaquil and followed her to Quito.

She was coming home from Europe and other places.