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APPENDIX. 



ENTRANCE FROM CHACHAPOYAS TO THE JUNCTION OF THE RIVER MOYOBAMBA 



WITH THE HUALLAGA. 



The first entrance Into the mountainous territory on this side, was undertaken 

 by Pedro Ursoa, in concert with Lope de Aguirre, in the year 1560*. He 

 reached the spot where the Moyobamba disembogues itself into the Huallaga, and 

 there built five vessels with the intent of proceeding to survey the river of the 

 Amazons ; but the tyrant Aguirre deprived him of his life, and e&£ted his escape 

 with the armament. At length, however, he paid on a gibbet the forfeit due to 

 his crime. 



The second entrance was made somewhere about the year 1650f, by general 

 Don Martin de la Riba, who subjugated the territory of Lamas and Cumbasa. 

 Over this conquest he presided for the space of thirty years, until his death, when 

 the government of the Lamistas tribes was annexed to the jurisdi(5tion of Chaclia- 

 poyas. 



In the year 1685, friar Alexandro Salazar, a Franciscan monk, penetrated from 

 Chachapoyas to the morasses bordering on the river Huambo, and there subdued 

 the idolatrous nations, the Cheduas, Alones, and CholtosJ. They were collected 

 in three towns, which were preserved for a long time, under the title of the presi- 

 dency of Santa Rosa of Huambo, until at length they were finally ceded to the ad- 

 ministration of Truxillo. 



From Chachapoyas to the river Huallaga, more than seventy leagues, over rough 

 and perilous roads, are computed. The traveller who is provided with a mule, may, 

 notwithstanding, perform this journey with ease in sixteen days, at the rate of 

 from four to five leagues per day, provided he proceeds by the following towns 

 and halting places : Taulia, Ventllla, Bagasan (here the mountainous territory 

 commences), Almirante, Pucatambo, Visitador, Santo Torribio, Moyobamba, 

 Quilliarrumi, Calaveras, Bella- Vista, Potrero (hence to Tabaloso, two days are 

 required), Lamas, and Cumbasa; thence to the port of Juan de Guerra, there are 

 four leagues over a beautiful plain, planted with lofty trees, which may be crossed 

 in two hours and a half. Having embarked at the above-mentioned port, the 

 traveller reaches, in somewhat more than an hour, the jundlion of the Moyobamba 

 with the Huallaga. 



* Amich, p. 4. f Tena, lib. i. p. 305. t Tena, lib. i. p. 305. 



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