TARAPOTO TO CANELOS in 



Several times the men have had to leap into the 

 water and drag the canoes by hand a good distance 

 over the shallow bed before finding again sufficient 

 water to float us. . . . 



[Early on April 29 they reached the much- 

 desired Andoas, situated on the left bank of the 

 Pastasa, where they had to engage fresh crews to 

 take them up the Bombonasa river to Canelos. 

 The village stands on a low ridge, on each side of 

 which is a little stream, the mouths of which are 

 about a quarter of a mile apart. The soil is loamy 

 and very fertile. Spruce was only able to take one 

 short walk in the forest during his five days' stay 

 here, and noted that while the trees seemed mostly 

 familiar to him, the shrubby and herbaceous plants 

 were nearly all new. The following rather char- 

 acteristic incident is noted in the Journal :- 



At Andoas it was necessary that some one 

 should sleep in the canoes, to take care of their 

 cargoes, and I and Don Ignacio, as being most 

 interested, undertook to do it, although we must 

 thus deny ourselves the pleasure of sleeping under 

 a roof, which the rest of our party took advantage 

 of. Our salt fish was stowed in the fore-part of the 

 canoe and covered over with palm-leaves, on which 

 were laid logs of wood, so that the fish coulc 

 easily be got at by the dogs who visited the canoe: 

 every night in a troop. Nevertheless, they found 

 out some part not so well secured as the rest 

 they one night introduced their muzzles and gna\\ 

 at the fish, and on the following night I lay 

 until I heard them at work, and then seizec 

 and rushed out of the cabin ; but the) 

 quickly for me and disappeared over the top 



