Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-22
1. WHOLE NO.s 2s98
 1lRd a haa nU.l

'lI1"But surely people will come in ships from
 every part of the world and bear away the precious tree. i '.And so they would if they were wise. But mankind do not care for their highest in-
 terests, otherwise they would dclimb the hills for
 the trees instead of diving into the mines for the gold. Some day, perhaps, they will come with rush, and then hope there will be
 wise, strong men who will make them plant a
 tree for every one which they cut down"
 "And you have proved how good they are ?''
 That bark saved my life and the lives of several of my bretbren," said Isidore. ''l had
 Ia fever, and one or two of my friends had ague by living close to the low swamps by
 the river, just as happened to you and your friends. Then we dragged ourselves up here, I and one of the Indians, to whom had been I kind, boiled some of the bark in water and 1 gave me to drink the infusion, morning, noon,
 and night. And we all marvelously recov- | cred" .Te9I ts2l 1870 co fse.lIS
 II suppose the Indians keep it as great secret and do net use it tiemselsess'' sa
 n fThey keep it asa great secret, for they have no such reason to love the whites as to reveal their choice Secrets to them. They have another gneat thing, the coco, which con- | fers astonishing powers of endurance, and which have not been able, to obtain IL is
 said that the Indians made the discovery
 through watching pumas chew the leaves | when these animals have been in highly fe- verous state. But the Indians themselves,
 oddly enough. will never use the bark in fe-
 vers; and if give it to them, have to dis | guise their own fever medicine They are better, and they think I have brought the
 medicine from beyond the seas, when it grows l in their own mountain belts"
 l1o He taught me great deal about all that
 family of trees, a very large and mixed one. And. indeed, only constant familiarity could teach one to recognize the true chinchona
 among many counterfeits.
 lua "Now listen to me, my son." sad Father l Isidore, ''The virtues of this wonderful tree are beginning slowly, but certainly, to be
 kfsFFfe eany wifo was kifd to the natives. AnS-oue | of them, when she was very i'll, brought her
 drink of this tea, which cured her of her fever. She was Countess, who. when At home, lived at the Castle of CAinchon, near | Madrid and when she went back to Europe, | she brought with her a quantity of the bark of | this tree, which she gave to the poor lahorers on her lords estates, who, from the unhealthy soil, suffered much from certain agues. And | from her It is sometimes called the Countess's power, and sometimes chinchona. And the | fame of it is spreading all through Europe; but there is very little of it, and few people
 know how to come by it. Now when you go
 back to Europe, as hope you will. you shall
 take with you boxes of these plants and many | seeds and you must SOW some of these when | you can, and the medicine you give or sell | must be for those who seek to-heal levers and agues. And it is possible that you may get much money, my son; but always consider | from whom you have obtained this bark, ana | that there is fOmethiug holier about it than
 mere craft or gain."
 I .H ' . And now my whole mind was fixed on the l question n--how I shall come to Europe, and,
 above all things, visit that wonderful London | of which had heard so much, and which | seemed to me mere wonderful than even
 Rome itself, of which Father Isidore spoke so much. And the thought acted upon me as a | great encouragement to d. all could in ac- quiring knowledge and cutting strips of the | bark of the precious uuina tree. And the good fathers, instead of putting any hndrance | in the way of departure, helped me ali they
 could. And they would have helped Johaune
 as well, but Johanne said that he was quite
 satisfied with things as they were, and wished
 for other life least of all for another life of
 wandering of which he had had enough in | coming from the coast. Father Isidore told me that if ever could come to London, he could there give me business letters 10 people
 whom he knew of old, with whom l could ! dispose of myself and quina bark to the best
 
 tiently there would surely come a vessel across
 the ocean bringing the commands of the Gen. | eral of his order, by which l might return; l and he told me-what have surely learned | that all good things come to him who learns | to wait. But it 50 happened that 1 had to | wait long and travel further than either of us
 thought for at last 1 went down to the Paci- l 6c shore, and thence to Java and the Eastern | Archipelago, and so round the Cape of GOud HOnA CanQ Of StOrma n Kin And so it happened that made my famous voyage around the world which had happened | to very few before me, and ever now, except
 to such of my friends as knew that 1 am a
 man of veracious mind, it is a thing hardly to | be credited. Net it may be fulfilled of 'put- ting girdle round about the earth" and men
 will run to and fro and knowledge be increasd l in way which is beyond conception. The vessel was connected with the Jesuit mission.
 and from the American sea-board was to visit
 the Chinese waters and help the brethren
 there. Much quina bark was sent out to them
 and they were also to plant It in China ard
 1ndies and although this has never yet heen | successfully done in my time-for have kept | up my information from the good fathers yet | assuredly it will be done at last to the great good of those future generations whom we ought always to bear in mind. For my part 1 do not agree with the wit who said that we | Cioi NO iOsh'HS tOt~ PoosC'itl b(tatuSS
 posterity has done nothing for us The bark was brought down to the other sort of bark | excuse the paronomasia or play on wnrds-i
 that was waiting by the shore chiefly by re- lays of negroes whom he had treated kindly,
 and in return acted courteously by us. And
 so we sailed away. Aud it would take eiS
 many days and nights to speak of my advent. | ures, which in some respects were Comparable
 even to those of Sndbad the. sailor, or even to
 the more veracious Marco Polo. And it that
 voyage, owing to what had taken in of the
 teaching Of the good monks, was able to act
 as kind of medicine man to the crew. eYcn
 as that beloved physician on board the piraiisl
 whom Lacy and his men cast away on tho I stormy waters. 1 sometimes, in these. my lat
 terldays, go over to my friend Dr. Sydenham,a who lives on the other side of the square. who,
 sits enjoying his evenings before the open
 window, drinking from his tankard the sec- Onds or small beer, by reason of the podagraz or gout that will not easily endure the alcohol. 'sAnd if you. take alcohol," says Dr. Sy,len- l ham to me- it will you ; but if you takesliti not. you will die" And so he drinketh much
 small beer with but small results either way And one day, sitting swaddIed up In his goutyiclothes, an impudent thief walketh into the room and first drinketh his beer before his
 face and then puts the tankard into his pocket friend Sydenham being all the time lame wi b ~ gOnt and speeches. with astonishment. And
 1t was perhaps this that set my rascal vsrlet
 Jem on stealing my own silver goblets. He's and often talk together over that great voy- age, than which he thinks there could be no , training or education finer, and we think how wisely the countries of the earth would act if they had more of exchanges in their simples acknowledgements. When got at last sso Stat Katharine s Wharf, where there was . little s chapel nigh unto much shipping, went .at ,, once tLose people m London to whom Father
 IsidoFe had greatly commended me in the let
 ters which carried They entreated me vesy <. kindly and made me tarry with them, show.
 ingme much hospitality and taking me to see all the many and great sights of I,ondon tewn.ao