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Purus, the first met with in ascending the Solimoens. 

 I gleaned very little information concerning the Jutahi, ' 

 which was not visited much by traders, but, as far as I 

 could learn, its banks were peopled by nearly the same 

 wild tribes as those of the next parallel stream, the Jurua, 

 about which I gathered a good deal from my friend 

 John da Cunha, who ascended it as far as it was navi- 

 gable on a trading expedition. The Jurua flows wholly 

 through a flat country covered with light-green forests, 

 and its waters are tinged ochreous, by the quantity of 

 clayey and earthy matter held in suspension, like those 

 of the Solimoens. At the end of the navigation there 

 is a road by land to the Purus, the two great streams 

 being there only about thirty or forty miles distant 

 from each other. The Jutahi must be a much shorter 

 river than the Jurua, for, as Senhor Cunha told me, 

 the Conibos, an advanced tribe of agricultural Indians 

 living on the banks of the Jurua near its source, have 

 at that point a direct road by land to the Ucayali, 

 which must pass to the south of the sources both of 

 the Jutahi and Jauari, the two livers lying between the 

 Jurua and Ucayali. Eight distinct tribes of Indians 

 inhabit the banks of the Jurua, all of which, except the 

 most remote (the Conibos) pass overland to the Jutahi * 

 Each tribe has its peculiar language, and to a great 

 extent, also its peculiar customs. I heard, however, of 

 no new feature in Indian character or customs, except 



* The order in which they are met with on ascending the river is as 

 follows : — 1. Marauds. — 2. Catauishis. — 3. Canaraares. — 4. Araiias. — 



5. Collinas (rivers Shiruan and Invira, affluents of the right bank). — 



6. Catoquinos (R. Shiruan). — 7. Naiias. — 8. Conibos, with their hordes 

 Mauislns, Zaminaiias, and true Conibos. 



