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bridge might still be passed by one person at a 

 time without much risk. 



Here I found a stronger and cooler wind than 

 even at the Rio Verde, and as I had with me no 

 garment proper for the cool region, I was glad to 

 purchase of a carpenter at Antombos a new poncho, 

 of two thicknesses, of scarlet bazeta or baize. This 

 was a welcome addition to my blankets at night, 

 and afterwards served me much in riding about on 

 the cold high lands. 



July i. Our kind hostess gave us an early 

 breakfast, and then we began our last day's journey. 

 On reaching the bridge of Agoyan, we found it to 

 consist of three or four trunks of trees laid across 

 from cliff to cliff (for the river here foams between 

 steep black walls of trachyte), and covered with 

 branches of Retama (Spartium junceuni) and earth. 

 Of the trunks only one remained unbroken, and we 

 crossed it with cautious steps and slow, but without 

 accident. We were still a league from the village 

 of Baiios, but a short way beyond the bridge we 

 reached a farm called Ulva, where the owner 

 (a widow lady) was so good as to lend me a horse, 

 mounted on which I arrived at Baiios early in the 

 afternoon. Following the recommendation of the 

 lady of Antombos, I sought out the Teniente parro- 

 quial, and requested him to procure me a lodging. 

 He accordingly put me into an unoccupied house 

 in the playa, one of the only two tiled houses in the 

 village. See me, therefore, at the end of my travel 

 of 1 02 days (counting from my departure from 

 Tarapoto on the 22nd of March), but by no means 

 at the end of my " travayle." 



As I arrived at the Hacienda del Rio Verde 



