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ten days, being a succession of rapids, from Yurimaguas to Chasuta, 
on the Huallaga. When travellers have all found it so trying coming 
down, you may judge what it will be going up; and I scarcely think, 
in my still weakly state, I could survive the fatigues of such a voyage. 
At Nauta, I am told it is hardly possible to write, except in a ham- 
mock, under cover of a mosquito-net: we shall see. On the Casi- 
quiare and Orinoco I have been pretty well broken-in to mosquitos. 
I had some talk with the American who brought out the two 
= _ steamers for the Peruvian government, who arrived here on his return 
from Peru (where he had remained several months) about ihe same 
= time as I arrived from Venezuela. He gives a very unpromising ac- 
. eount of Cis-Andine Peru, where life and property seem secured only 
by force of arms. 
I must do what I can, and put up with discomforts I cannot avoid. 
Certainly the Barra, or anywhere in the neighbourhood, would no longer 
suit me: everything is much dearer than formerly, and Indians are no 
longer to be had, those employed on the public works having been 
taken by force from the upper parts of the Rio Uaupés, Japurá, etc. 
Officers ascending the rivers to command frontiers, or Padres to take 
* charge of missions, furnished with orders from the Government to take 
. men necessary to row their boats in any of the villages they pass, have 
stuck i in the middle of their journey for lack of hands. 
I suppose I shall have to bring my collections along with me when 
I return from Peru, most probably on a raft. There are no boards to 
make boxes of; and the people of Tarapota make the doors of their 
houses of old canoes (hollowed trees)... Chairs and tables are not 
fashionable—perhaps do not exist, but I have learnt to dispense with 
m; in seven months’ residence in São Gabriel, and other seven on 
U pés, my boxes constantly served me for chairs and tables. A. S. 
Corda" 3 Fungi. 
CRAS and pe volume of Corda’ s great work is thus announced, as 
Ji t to be published at Prague ;—“ Augusti Car. Jos. Corda, Icones 
gorum hucusque cognitoram: Tomus VI, (ultimus), quem auctore 
itinere Texano per mare Mexicanum reduce, infelici sorte ab- 
consulatis literariis ejusdem wih edidit Joannes Baptista 
