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Hibitos, supplied four canoes, whicli set out at noon, and at half past one 

 reached the port and town of del Valle, containing a population of 372 souls, 

 whence our travellers proceeded to v/ithin a small distance of the great shoals of 

 Sabaloyaco, to steer clear of the perils of which it was necessary to discharge the 

 canoes, and to drag them overland, by the eastern bank, a distance of about half 

 a mile. This task was performed in an hour ; when the canoes again setting out, 

 approached Cachiluanusca at four in the afternoon. To avoid this difficult pass it 

 was necessary to direct the canoes by the right bank, or, for still greater security, 

 to drag them along it with cords, but without discharging them. This was 

 safely accomplished on the 13th at six in the mornirtg, when the canoes pro- 

 ceeded to the mouth of the Huayabamba, and thence to the port of Pachisa, 

 where; there is a small Indian town, the inhabitants of which, one hundred in 

 number, were brought from Pagaten, and settled at the confluence of the Huaya- 

 bamba with the Huallaga, in consequence of that place being at too great a dis- 

 tance to be useful to navigators. At eight in the morning of the 14th the 

 voyage was prosecuted with three canoes belonging to Pachisa, and two from Tara- 

 poto and Cumbasa, which had been expressly stationed at Pachisa by the Lamas 

 missionaries. After a navigation of twelve leagues, the party reached Pilloana, a 

 hill which runs north and south on the eastern bank of the Huallaga, and which 

 is covered to the extent of a mile with salt springs of an excellent quality. Here 

 our travellers spent the night; and on the IBth, at eight in the morning, again set 

 forward. At eleven o'clock they reached the confluence of the Moyobamba with 

 the Huallaga ; and, following the rapid course of the former of these two rivers, to 

 the west, and afterwards to the south, arrived at two in the afternoon at the port 

 of Juan de Guerra, situated on the right bank. From the port of Juan de Guerra 

 to the towns of Tarapoto and Cumbasa, the distance does not exceed four leagues by 

 land, over a very fertile plain. These towns are separated by a small river, and con- 

 tain conjointly a population of upwards of sixteen hundred souls, vSpaniards, Mes- 

 tizos, and Indians, all of them very robust and laborious. Their principal employ- 

 ment consists in the weaving of cotton stuffs of different qualities*. In the vicinity 



of 



* While the men are employed within doors at the looms, the women are stationed from distance to 

 distance in the streets, at the spinning machines, which are of a particular construftion, and afford 

 ample supplies of the spun material to the manufaflories. At the extremities of the axis of the second 

 wheel, to which a cylinder is occasionally substituted, to simplify the machine, several small hooks are 

 fastened, to lay hold of the cotton ; and in proportion as the wheel is turned by a Httle boy, and th« 



cylinder 



