324 CALISAYA-YIELDING DISTRICTS OF EASTERN BOLIVIA. 
the mountainous regions, although producing these valuable objects of 
export to perfection, remained practically of no value to the State, be- 
cause it was supposed to be quite impossible to find an outlet for this 
commerce down the course of the rivers which eventually join the 
Amazon, and thus reach the sea on the eastern side of the continent. 
I am glad to say that a new era has now commenced for the com- 
merce of Bolivia in this respect, since the enterprise of one of her sons 
has shown that the difficulties of this eastern route, though sufficiently 
formidable, can be vanquished by skill and perseverance. | 
Sefior Pedro Rada has recently brought, by way of Pará and Liver- 
pool, a cargo of bark, which was sold in the London market on the 
first of this present month, October, 1868. The following is a trans- 
lation of the account given me in Spanish by this gentleman of his 
oyage :— 
“The barks (Quinas) which I have brought were cut by my orders 
near the confluence of the rivers Bopi and Beni, a place where are 
found the missions named Moschenos, which belong to the department 
of La Paz, a province of Yungas, in the republie of Bolivia. At the 
point I have named, the river Bopi loses its name and preserves that 
of the river Beni, until its union with the Mamore in the sixth rapid, 
which is called Madera, from whence this river takes its name. 
could not descend the whole course of the river Beni, because it is 
unknown as far as the mission of Cavinas, and on account of the many 
barbarous and savage Indians that are found there. It was, therefore, 
necessary that I should travel overland about sixty miles to the new 
mission of San Buenaventura, a place known by the name of Rurena- 
baque, by the town (pueblo) of Reyes to the river Yacuma. I em- 
barked at the port of San Cristobal, and descended the Yacuma as far 
as its incorporation with the Mamore, in the vicinity of Santa Anna. 
Continuing my course down this stream, the Mamore, I reached the 
Junction of the Itenez, or Guapore, and, subsequently, its union with 
the Beni in the rapid of Madera. Both rivers here lose their names, 
and take that of Rio Madera, until its union with the Amazons some 
twenty-four miles above the town of Serpa in the kingdom of 
Brazil. 
"I continued my voyage down the river Amazons until it disem- 
bogued in the sea, a little below the city of Belem, on the Para. 
There I embarked in the steamboat * Augustino’ of Liverpool. 
