From snch houses no visitor was ever allowed to take his departure without carrying with him a supply of the latestmade aji: no traveller went to the capital or any of the coast towns hut he carried with him some of this
excellent pepper as a present to the archbishop or bishop of the diocese, the ladies of Santa Rosa, or the good Fathers who once a year went long journeys to baptise the children, marry their
parents, and
otherwise maintain the influence and authority of the Church in the remote parts of the earth.