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impediments to navigation as the Paranapura, and 

 the road overland is more elevated and very 

 rough. 



VOYAGE UP THE HUALLAGA TO CMASUTA, AND 



THENCE TO JUAN GUERRA AND TARAPOTO 



On Tuesday, June 12, at 7.30 A.M., we left Yurima- 

 guas for Chasuta, myself and goods occupying two 

 ubadas (large dug-out canoes), one with nine, the 

 other with eight Indians. The river had been 

 sinking for some time, but for four days much 

 rain had fallen and the river had risen again. 

 When we started it was 8 feet below high-water 

 mark. 



On the next day at 4.30 P.M. we reached the 

 mouth of the Cainaiuche, up which there is a way to 

 Tarapoto when the Huallaga is so full as to render 

 the pongos of Chasuta impassable. As rain seemed 

 coming on, we remained for the night on a sand- 

 bank, where it took us near an hour to erect some 

 twenty tarnbos (shelters) of palm-leaves, under 

 which we hung our mosquito-nets, and so many 

 green tents scattered over the sand had a pretty 

 appearance, the picture being completed 1>\- t\\o 

 fires blazing in the midst, around which croudcd 

 the Indians until rain compelled them to turn in. 

 After the rain a very strong and cold south wind 

 sprang up more searching than any I h,i\e |elt 

 since I left England. A good many \\atei1o\\l 

 begin to appear on the beaches as the receding 

 waters gradually expose them. Amon^ them we 

 had numbers of Jabirus and (iarnas (cranes and 

 herons), and one day two majestic Tayuyns (th- 



