Note 15 — Chapter V · DR. WEDDELL’S ACCOUNT.[13]

“As it is easily damaged by damp in transit, the only absolute security is to have it soldered in tin or zinc, enclosed in wood; such packages generally contain two tambores, or about a Spanish quintal of 100 pounds. Although shipped from many ports along the whole coast, the principal port in Peru seems to be Salaverry, the port of entry to Truxillo, and the principal port for Bolivia is Arica, Mollendo being now closed by the civil war in Peru.”—Squibb’s Ephemeris, ii. 792.