It is then packed in bundles, and sent to market.

A party of Indians came one day to the village, on their way across the
Andes, from the more distant forests to the east, laden with balsams and
odoriferous gums, which they had collected from a variety of resinous
plants. They were ignorant that the war had broken out, and when they
heard of it, they were unwilling to venture further, and returned, to
their own country. The men who carried the loads had on merely a piece
of cloth round the waist; but the women who accompanied them wore a
loose tunic without sleeves. Their legs were bare, but painted with the
juice of the huito, which made it appear that they had on half-boots.
The object was to protect their legs from the stings of insects. I
found that they professed Christianity. They were regular medical
pedlars; for they had powders, salves, plasters, seeds, and roots of
every description; claws of the tapir, as a remedy against the
falling-sickness; and the teeth of poisonous snakes, carefully stuck
into rushes, as specifics against head-ache and blindness. Manco had
purchased a sufficient number of horses to mount all our party, and to
carry such provisions as we required; though, from the abundance of game
to be procured in the forests, we had no fear of being in want of fresh
meat. Still, however, as there was no notice of the approach of the
Spaniards, he thought it better to remain a few clays longer, to recruit
our strength, before we recommenced our journey. Three of the Indians
only had remained with us, the rest having departed to their homes in
the south. Pedro, Ned, and I employed our time in wandering about the
neighbouring country, under the guidance of one of the Indians; but we
were charged by Manco not to go far from the village.

I can scarcely venture to describe the magnificence of the vegetation of
that region. There were numerous ferns and nettles growing in the form
of large shrubs; wonderful bignonias and gigantic orchids drawing their
nourishment from the air; with every variety of climbing plants,
throwing their thousand tendrils round the trees which gave them
support. I could not but admire the various forms of the stately palm,
the thickly-leaved balsam-yielding leguminosae, the luxuriant laurels,
and the solaneae, with their numberless flowers of vast size. Further
on, again, on the flat lands towards the east, the mighty trees rise to
an immense height from the humid soil