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potato). Bowman alludes to the small numbers of native andean groups dependent 
on fishing, the Urus of the Desaguadero, and a small tribe on the Chilean coast. 
Martin (1905, 171) says the Para market affords few appetizing fish, but count- 
less turtles (page 214). Mozans (1911, 506) quotes Agassiz as to the vast numbers 
of Amazon fishes yet marks their total absence aboard the steamers of that river, 
Fie. 10. The upper Rio Huallaga. Looking upstream to the right. On the left enters a 
tributary fed by melting glacial ice from the Eastern Cordillera, its milky waters diffusing into the 
darker main stream. The road from Cerro de Pasco to Hudnuco on the mountain side at the right. 
Waters similar to this continue for many miles, separating the lowland fish fauna from that of the 
highlands. 
quoting a steward to the effect that they are too expensive. McGovern (page 54) 
says that although the Amazon is the angler’s paradise, it was seldom that they 
were given fresh fish, every meal consisting of salted piraruct, with a flavor like 
rancid soap. Medina (Lee trans., 1934) frequently points out the dependence of 
the early explorers upon fresh fish and dried, and the dried flesh of manatee. 
In all Raimondi’s wide travels, the fisheries resources seem never to have 
