CHAPTER X 
AN EXPEDITION TO THE CATARACTS AND UNEXPLORED 
FORESTS OF THE UAUPES 
{August 2 1, 1852, March 7, 1853) 
[This chapter has had to be made up of very 
fragmentary materials. Partly because / had made 
two excursions up the river before him, partly also 
because the very rich and novel flora he found 
there occupied every moment of his time in its 
collection and preservation, Spruce kept no regular 
Journal, except during the few days occupied in 
short excursions up the river. I have therefore 
had to utilise so far as possible his letters to his 
botanical friends at Kew, and one which he wrote 
to myself while he was residing here. This is 
the more unfortunate as he made no less than ten 
very careful pencil portraits of Uaupe Indians of 
different sexes and various ages, and though my 
friend was no artist he was a very painstaking and 
accurate draughtsman, and from my own know- 
ledge of these people (and of several of the very 
individuals represented), I can certify that they 
give a faithful idea of the features and expression 
of this fine Indian type.] 
On Saturday, August 21, 1852, I left Sao Gabriel 
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