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and has not even received pay for cargoes of wax 

 and other products of the country which he had 

 taken or remitted to his superiors in Jeberos at 

 their request. 



May 5 (Tuesday).- -This day at noon we got off 

 from Andoas. Our crews were eight men to each 

 canoe. Eighteen bunches of plantains were 

 embarked in each, for we calculated on fourteen 

 days to Sara-yacu (about 100 miles farther up the 

 Bombonasa), and the existence of plantains on the 

 route was uncertain. Besides plantains, we took a 

 great store of yucas, sweet potatoes, and pine- 

 apples ; and the Indians so filled the canoe with 

 their pots of masuto (fermented yucas), beds, etc., 

 that they had not room to work. . . . 



May 6 ( Wednesday).- - ... This morning at three 

 we got off and shortly afterwards entered the mouth 

 of the Bombonasa, which was about 60 yards wide, 

 winding, muddy because nearly full, with vegeta- 

 tion exactly the same as on the Pastasa, where the 

 shore was fiat grasses (Panicum aniplcx, etc., 

 Gynerium, and other genera and species with 

 Cecropias, Ingas, etc.). On the steep loamy bank 

 there were ferns, especially a Mertensia, and the 

 forest trees of Pastasa, with Iriartca vc 

 and a stout tall palm near the CEnocarpus P 

 In some respects it reminds me of the Casiquiari 

 towards the upper mouth. The muddy, shallow 

 water winding considerably the dense, intricate 

 vegetation of the shores where low are the 

 but the Bombonasa is much smaller. 



May 7 (Thursday).- -The river went down ncarl; 

 i j- feet in the night. 



