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the forest unbroken except for their clearings. In the late afternoon 
of March 28 we came, with some difficulty, to the mouth of the Rio 
Iraamadd, the point for which I had been aiming. The rapids had been 
swifter and the river shallower all through this day. Here we found 
the last Indians located on the Jaqud River. By good fortune the 
head man in the group was Gonejo, whom I had met last year and at 
whose invitation I had come up here* reached this point just ©head 
of a terrific rain, got our canoes into the mouth of the Imamadd, part 
of the outfit covered up with waterproof tarpaulin, and the rest and 
ourselves in Gonejo's house. The storm gave us opportunity to talk 
and become friendly. It developed that Gonejo's brother was godson 
to old (Jeronimo who was with me as one of the helpers from Jaqud. At 
the end of an hour I had made a bargain to rent the house for $5*00 for 
a month, and here we located. 
This point is in the heart of a tremendous unbroken green 
forest, with openings only along the streams, and trees from a 100 to 
175 feet high elsewhere. The undergrowth was heavy in places, more open 
in other s, and there were largs areas grown with the tagua palms which 
form the palm nuts of commerce. Our house, was a platform six feet above 
the ground on posts, had a good thatched roof, but no sides. The 
Indians are all people so that one of the first necessities was 
to strengthen the underpinnings because of my weight. The house platform 
measured 18 x 21 feet, with a little offset at one end 5 x 10 feet. In 
this space the six of us lived for four days with 25 plus or minus 
Indians of assorted ages, sexes and sizes. Perrygo and I never succeeded 
in ng a complete count that we could depend upon as the flock of small 
youngsters circulated too rapidly to make this practicable. Finally our 
Indian friends moved out down river and from then on cam® back to visit 
us Sundays. Another group of Indians was living about two miles below 
our location. 
Forest birds were tremendously abundant and in good variety* 
The Indian trails in the main followed the streams, through the water 
itself where this was shallow, and on the banks only around the deeper 
holes. One of our first tasks was to cut hunting trails which we extended 
until in the end we had about eigit miles available for hunting. The 
rainy season had started and we had rain almost every afternoon. Once 
or twice a week there were tremendous downpours that brought theImamadd, 
fifty yards below our camp, to flood level in the course of an hour. The 
river dropped rapidly, however, and also cleared which was important as 
this was our water supply. There was no one living aboveus, and the 
constant flood kept the river bottoms scoured clean so that we had no 
hesitance in drinking the water. I must add, however, that the river 
water in: ; the Jaaue from this point down is badly polluted. It is the 
custom of the Indians, old and young, to use the river as a latrine. 
In the period of a little less than four weeks we made a fairly 
complete collection of the birds of this region, securing much that is 
supplemental to what we got last year near Jaqud. Vie started clown the 
river in the early morning of April 18, and the following morning reached 
the Airfield, having stopped overnight at a place on the Jaque River 
