326 The Andes and the Amazon. 



days ; thence down the Ucayali to Iquitos, by steamer, six 

 days (forty-five hours' running time). When the road from 

 Lima to Mayro is finished the passage will be shortened 

 four days. No snow is met in crossing the Andes in sum- 

 mer, but in winter it is very deep. Second (Herndon's 

 route), from Lima to Tinga Maria, by way of Huanaco, 

 by mule, fifteen days, distance three hundred miles (the 

 passage is difficult in the rainy season) ; thence by canoe 

 fifteen days down the Huallaga to Yurimaguas. Third 

 and best, by mule from Truxillo to Caximarca, five days 

 (note the magnificent ruins) ; thence to Chachapoyas, seven 

 days (here are pre-Incarial relics) ; thence to Moyabamba, 

 eight days; thence on foot to Balsa Puerto, four days; 

 thence by canoe to Yurimaguas, two days. Price of a 

 mule from Truxillo to Moyabamba is $30 ; canoe-hire, 

 $10. The Peruvian steamers arrive at Yurimaguas the 

 fifth of every month and leave the seventh ; reach Nauta 

 the ninth and Iquitos the tenth ; leave Iquitos the sixteenth 

 and arrive at Tabatinga the nineteenth, to connect with 

 the Brazilian line. Going up, they leave Tabatinga the 

 twenty-first and arrive at Iquitos the twenty -fourth, stop- 

 ping six days. Running time from Yurimaguas to Taba- 

 tinga, forty-eight hours ; fare, $70, gold ; third-class, $17. 

 La Condamine's route, via Loxa and the Maranon, is diffi- 

 cult ; and Md. Godin's, via the Pastassa, is perilous on ac- 

 count of rapids and savages. The transit by the Napo we 

 will now give in detail. 



Six hundred dollars in gold will be amply sufficient for 

 a first-class passage from New York to New York across 

 the continent of South America, making no allowance for 

 stoppages. For necessary expenses in Ecuador, take a draft 

 on London, which will sell to advantage in Guayaquil ; so 

 will Mexican dollai-s. American gold should be taken for 

 expenses on the Amazon in Brazil; at Para it commands 



