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He took her to France, where she was educated, and she returned 

 to this country a few years later thoroughly conversant with three 

 languages and assumed, with credit to herself, a place in local society 

 among the best families here. Mr. Robushon undertook another 

 trip in a wild part of the Upper Putumayo district about two years 

 ago. He has never returned, and searching parties which have 

 been sent out have been unsuccessful in their efforts to find him. It 

 seems most probable that he was killed and eaten by some of the 

 cannibal tribes of that region. 



Owing to the difficulty of obtaining authentic data as to popula- 

 tion, due allowance must be made for the estimated number of in- 

 habitants of the Department of Loreto (in which Iquitos is situated), 

 120,000, and that of trans- Andean Peru, 300,000. Of this latter 

 number one-half, or 150,000, are said to be wild Indians, most of 

 whom, aside from petty tribal wars, are peaceably inclined, obtaining 

 food and such raiment as they require from the supply furnished by 

 a generous and lavish nature. 



Enumeration of Tribes 



Following is a list of the principal tribes which go to make up 

 this total of 150,000, with the approximate number of inhabitants 

 of such tribes as are said to number more than 2,000, though names 

 of smaller tribes and subtribes almost without number could be 

 added. The total of these numbers is 116,000, and the difference, 

 therefore, 34,000', comprises such tribes as those whose number of in- 

 habitants does not appear on the list and which are composed mostly 

 of from 200 to 1,000 souls each. Some of these tribes are said no 

 longer to exist as such, having become extinct by intermarriage 

 with other tribes, taken prisoners by stronger tribes and the whites, 

 or dying from diseases introduced by the white man, usually small- 

 pox. 



In the spelling of these names one will detect at once the Spanish 

 style, which has been given to the words as pronounced by the na- 

 tives themselves, and as there is always considerable difference in 

 accent, enunciation, etc., of different individuals in the pronunciation 

 of the same word, one often meets with several ways of spelling the 

 name of a certain tribe. Most of the tribes retain the name handed 

 down for generations, though others are known by the names of the 

 rivers or vicinity in which they live, being thus designated by the 

 rubber-gatherers or the whites with whom they come in contact. 



