

Vagre, the port of Atures, was the first stop after passing Cuidad Boli'var where the final pro- 

 visioning of the expedition had been accomplished. At Vagre the outfit of the expedition was portaged 

 around the rapids 



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Loading the outfit at Atures. The expedition traveled by dugouts one mile on from Vagre and 

 thence in ox-drawn carts to Atures town along the south bank of the Rio Cataniapo. Atures gives 

 the first experience of the terrible insect pest of the upper Orinoco 

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