Fig. 326. Bark-peeling in the Forests of Carabaya in Peru.

Fig. 326. Bark-peeling in the Forests of Carabaya in Peru.

The Valley of San Juan del Oro.
(One of the cascarilleros or barkers is represented as engaged in barking a felled stem; two others are occupied in piling the bark in square heaps to flatten and dry it; while a fourth is seen in the distance carrying a load of the dried bark on his back to the camp.)

This image is from _ in Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1854.