16 FISHES OF WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA 
village Maqueria, fishing in cutoff lake; 6-7 Fishing at Nueva Ytalia, waiting for 
overdue launch; 8 Rowboat down to Contamana; 9-10 Buying alcohol, packing, 
preserving specimens; 11 Joined party to reconnoitre site for village when present 
site will have been removed by the river; 12-14 Packing and waiting for launch; 
15 Aroused by whistle of the Louvs at 2:15 a.m., unable to embark, as she takes the 
East channel, I the West; 16 Castnet fishing with army lieutenant and two Chama 
Indians in Cocha de Contamana; 17 Repairing seines; 18 Fishing oxbow lake 
Tupishka with heutenant, soldiers, and Indians; 19 Waiting for launch Melita, 
Fie. 8. Lake Ascotan, Chile. Partly lake, partly dry and encrusted with salts, and wholly 
enclosed within a ring of volcanic peaks, Ollagué at one extreme, San Pedro and San Pablo at the 
other, near 13000 feet elevation. Inhabited by Orestias agassizii similar to those of the Bolivian 
side of the peaks. They show considerable adaptability to saline waters, but are most abundant in 
freshwater springs such as this. 
delayed by storm; 20-21 Aboard Melita, delaying to trade; 22—23 Fishing sand bars 
of Ucayali near anchorages of Melita at various trading points, Orellana, Inahuaya, 
etc.; 24 With three men and castnet took boatload of fishes in schools, ascending the 
river along the shore, transferred to launch Rosa to take the western route; 25 
Aboard Rosa entered the Puinagua, or West Fork, arrived Bretana at 5:00 p.m.; 
26 Guest of Senor Medina, javelin fishing in mouth of Rio Pacaya; 27 Mending 
nets, preparing for trip up Rio Pacaya; 28 With host, nephew, three peons enroute 
up Rio Pacaya in large dugout; 29 Up the cutoff Lake Yarinacocha to its upper 
extremity; 30-31 Hook, javelin, castnet fishing, visiting weirs in the back-waters 
and canas (furo, in Brazil). 
