FROM MANAOS to TARAPOTO 19 
impediments to navigation as the Paranapura, and 
the road overland is more elevated and very 
rough. 
Voyage up the Huallaga to Chasuta, and 
THENCE TO JUAN GuERRA AND TaRAPOTO 
On Tuesday, June 1 2, at 7.30 a.m., we left Yurima- 
guas for Chasuta, myself and goods occupying two 
ubadas (large dug-out canoes), one with nine, the 
other with eight Indians. The river had been 
sinking for some time, but for four days much 
rain had fallen and the river had risen again. 
When we started it was 8 feet below high-water 
mark. 
On the next day at 4.30 p.m. we reached the 
mouth of the Cainaiuche, up which there is a way to 
Tarapoto when the Huallaga is so full as to render 
the pongos of Chasuta impassable. As rain seemed 
coming on, we remained for the night on a sand- 
bank, where it took us near an hour to erect some 
twenty tambos (shelters) of palm -leaves, under 
which we hung our mosquito-nets, and so many 
green tents scattered over the sand had a pretty 
appearance, the picture being completed by two 
fires blazing in the midst, around which crowded 
the Indians until rain compelled them to turn in. 
After the rain a very strong and cold south wind 
sprang up — more searching than any I have felt 
since I left England. A good many waterfowl 
begin to appear on the beaches as the receding 
waters gradually expose them. Among them we 
had numbers of Jabirus and Garcias (cranes and 
herons), and one day two majestic Tayuyus (the 
