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TARAPOTO TO CANELOS 
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and has not even received pay for cargoes of wax 
and other products of the country which he had 
taken or remitted to his superiors in Jeberos at 
their request. 
May 5 [Tuesday). — This day at noon we got off 
from Andoas. Our crews were eight men to each 
canoe. Eighteen bunches of plantains were 
embarked in each, for we calculated on fourteen 
days to Sara-yacu (about 100 miles farther up the 
Bombonasa), and the existence of plantains on the 
route was uncertain. Besides plantains, we took a 
great store of yucas, sweet potatoes, and pine- 
apples ; and the Indians so filled the canoe with 
their pots of masuto (fermented yucas), beds, etc., 
that they had not room to work. . . . 
May 6 ( Wednesday). — . . . This morning at three 
we got off and shortly afterwards entered the mouth 
of the Bombonasa, which was about 60 yards wide, 
winding, muddy because nearly full, with vegeta- 
tion exactly the same as on the Pastasa, where the 
shore was flat — grasses [Panicum amp lex, etc., 
Gynerium, and other genera and species with 
Cecropias, Ingas, etc.). On the steep loamy banks 
there were ferns, especially a Mertensia, and the 
forest trees of Pastasa, with Iriartea ventricosa, 
and a stout tall palm near the OEnocarpus Patawa. 
In some respects it reminds me of the Casiquiari 
towards the upper mouth. The muddy, shallow- 
water — winding considerably — the dense, intricate 
vegetation of the shores where low — are the same, 
but the Bombonasa is much smaller. 
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May 7 {Thursday). — The river went down nearly 
feet in the night. 
