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We paid Demetrio |2 a day and he ate with us on 
the trip upriver. We paid $2 a day without food in Rio 
Indio proper. At El Uracillo, we paid labor |1.50 a day 
without food. 
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Manuel Madrid lives upriver, almost as far as 
El Uracillo. He spends half of his time in or around Rio 
Indio. He is commonly referred to as ”E1 Chino” because of 
his looks, but he is pure Indian. He always seems to have 
a cynical look on his face, but he is a dandy worker. He 
owns his own outboard and was trying to have it fixed when 
we were there. He could operate the outboard and canoe on 
the river trip if you use an outboard. He has planted coffee 
on his property upriver and has several pieces of property 
which he is farming here and there. He apparently has some 
money, but he is not adverse to earning some more. If he 
is available to man the canoe for you upriver, he is well 
worth his $2. There are many logs in the river upstream and 
it makes progress very slow if somebody has to stand watch 
all the time. We rented El Chino’s big dugout for $1 a day. 
It is made to be used with an outboard and we didn’t need the 
rigging Perry made for us. 
It took us about 7 hours to reach El Chino’s house 
upriver. We had to get out and wade as the men pushed the 
canoe through 3 shallow spots. El Chino said that we could 
not quite reach El Uracillo in his big canoe. However, a lot 
of rain fell during the night and the next day we were able 
to reach it in about half an hour. 
