“Our Varicocha first this coca sent,
“Endow’d with leaves of wondrous nourishment,
“Whose juice succ’d in, and to the stomach tak’n
“Long hunger and long labour can sustain
“From which our faint and weary bodies find
“More succour, more they clear the drooping mind,
“Than can your Bacchus and your Ceres join’d.
“Three leaves supply for six days’ march afford
“The Quitoita with this provision stor’d
“Can pass the vast and cloudy Andes o’er.”