FROM MANAOS TO TARAPOTO 



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night and the village was La Laguna, so called 

 from a large lake a little behind it, but not visible 

 from the village, which is reached by a very narrow 

 side-channel. There are perhaps a hundred families 

 in fifty houses built irregularly around a square 

 open space. There is a very large church dating 

 from the time of the Jesuits. The walls are of 

 adobe and the roof is supported on pillars formed 

 from large trees. The Cura was absent at Moyo- 

 bamba. 



May 4. --This day (about 4 P.M.) we passed some 

 rather high land about 12 feet above the highest 

 floods, and the first uninundated land I had seen 

 on the banks of the Huallaga. It had been very 

 wet, but after 5 P.M. it cleared up and I enjoyed my 

 first view of the Andes. The part seen is called 

 the Serra de Curiayacu, and in form and extent 

 reminded me much of Duida as seen from the Casi- 

 quiari, showing a table-like summit with several 

 outlying peaks on the right. Yurimaguas was 

 reached the next day at 10 A.M. 



\Ve were very kindly received by tin- priest ( Dr. 

 Don Silverio Mori), and as I had decided to wait 

 here until I could get Indians from Chasm. i to 

 take us up the pongo, he installed us in the cuartel, 

 a commodious building of three rooms, In it much 

 infested by rats. 



Yurimaguas is a small place (about equal to San 

 Regis), but is pleasantly situated on -round rising 

 abruptly but to no great height. It is one ol the 

 most ancient missions in Maynas, and according 

 to information derived from the priest, it 

 founded in 1709 by Spanish Jesuits, 

 panied by a few armed whites, descend 



