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Pums, the first met with in ascending the Solimoens. 
I gleaned very little information concerning the J utahi, 
which was not visited much by traders, but, as far as I 
could learn, its banks were peopled by nearly the same 
wild tribes as those of the next parallel stream, the Jurua, 
about which I gathered a good deal from my friend 
John da Cunha, who ascended it as far as it was navi- 
gable on a trading expedition. The Jurua flows wholly 
through a flat country covered with light-green forests, 
and its waters are tinged ochreous, by the quantity of 
clayey and earthy matter held in suspension, like those 
of the Solimoens. At the end of the navigation there 
is a road by land to the Purus, the two great streams 
being there only about thirty or forty miles distant 
from each other. The Jutahi must be a much shorter 
river than the Jurua, for, as Senhor Cunha told me, 
the Conibos, an advanced tribe of agricultural Indians 
living on the banks of the Jurua near its source, have 
at that point a direct road by land to the Ucayali, 
which must pass to the south of the sources both of 
the Jutahi and Jauari, the two rivers lying between the 
Jurua and Ucayali. Eight distinct tribes of Indians 
inhabit the banks of the Jurua, all of which, except the 
most remote (the Conibos) pass overland to the Jutahi.* 
Each tribe has its peculiar language, and to a great 
extent, also its peculiar customs. I heard, however, of 
no new feature in Indian character or customs, except 
* The order in which they are met with on ascending the river is as 
follows : — 1. Marauds. — 2. Catanishis. — 3. Canamares. — 4. Araiias. — 
5. Collinas (rivers Shimon and Invira, affluents of the right bank). — 
6. Catoqnmos (R. Shiruan). — 7. Nalias. — 8. Combos, with their hordes 
Mauislns, Zaminaiias, and true Combos. 
