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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Page. 



Departure from Cerro Pasco — Mint at Quinua — San Rafael — Ambo — Qui- 



cacan — Huanuco — Cerro de Carpis — Chinchao valley — Huallaga river.. 113 



CHAPTER VII. 



Itinerary — Tingo Maria — Vampires — Blow guns — Canoe navigation — 



Shooting monkeys — Tocache — Sion — Salt hills of Pilluana 132 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Tarapoto — Pongo of Chasuta — Chasuta — Yurimaguas — Sta. Cruz — 'Anto- 

 nio, the Paragua — Laguna — Mouth of the Huallaga 156 



CHAPTER IX. 



Entrance into the Amazon — Nauta — Upper and lower missions of Mai- 

 nas— Conversions of the Ucayali — Trade in Sarsaparilla — Advantages of 

 trade with this country 176 



CHAPTER X. 



Nauta — River Ucayali — Sarayacu — The missionaries — The Indians of the 

 Ucayali 190 



CHAPTER XI. 



Upper Ucayali — M. Castelnau — Length of navigation — Loss of the priest-^ 

 Departure from Sarayacu — Omaguas — Iquitos — Mouth of the Napo — 

 Pebas — San Jose de los Yaguas — State of Indians of Peru 208 



CHAPTER XII. 



Chochiquinas — Caballo Cocha — Alligators — Indian incantations — Loreto — 

 Tabatinga — River Yavari — San Paulo — River I$a — Tunantins — Making 

 Manteiga — River Jutay — Fonteboa — River Jurua — River Japura 229 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Egas — Trade — Lake Coari — Mouth of the Rio Negro — Barra — Trade — 

 Productions 250 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Town of Barra — Foreign residents — Population — Rio Negro — Connexion 

 with the Oronoco — River Purus — Rio Branco — Vegetable productions of 

 the Amazon country 269 



CHAPTER XV. 



Departure from Barra — River Madeira — Serpa — Villa Nova — Maues — 

 River Tromb etas — Cocoa plantations — Obidos — Santarem 285 



