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bridge might still be passed by one person at a 
time without much risk. 
Here I found a stronger and cooler wind than 
even at the Rio Verde, and as I had with me no 
garment proper for the cool region, I was glad to 
purchase of a carpenter at Antombos a new poncho, 
of two thicknesses, of scarlet bazeta or baize. This 
was a welcome addition to my blankets at night, 
and afterwards served me much in riding about on 
the cold high lands. 
Jttly I. — Our kind hostess gave us an early 
breakfast, and then we began our last day's journey. 
On reaching the bridge of Agoyan, we found it to 
consist of three or four trunks of trees laid across 
from cliff to cliff (for the river here foams between 
steep black walls of trachyte), and covered with 
branches of Retama [Spartitim jtmceunz) and earth. 
Of the trunks only one remained unbroken, and we 
crossed it with cautious steps and slow, but without 
accident. We were still a league from the village 
of Bafios, but a short way beyond the bridge we 
reached a farm called Ulva, where the owner 
(a widow lady) was so good as to lend me a horse, 
mounted on which I arrived at Bafios early in the 
afternoon. Following the recommendation of the 
lady of Antombos, I sought out the Teniente parro- 
quial, and requested him to procure me a lodging. 
He accordingly put me into an unoccupied house 
in the playa, one of the only two tiled houses in the 
village. See me, therefore, at the end of my travel 
of 102 days (counting from my departure from 
Tarapoto on the 22nd of March), but by no means 
at the end of my " travayle." 
As I arrived at the Hacienda del Rio Verde — 
