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Chap. X.—B. S.] DIRECTION OF BAYANO RIYER. 
which made fast to the shore, allowing ns to land 
without using a boat, might have gone ten miles 
further up without any danger of grounding, even at 
low water, for up to that point there were more than six 
feet of rise and fall of the tides. 
The land on both hanks of the river is extremely 
fertile, and well suited for cocoa and sugar culti¬ 
vation. 
The direction which the Bayano river takes above 
Jesus-Maria is north-east for a distance of forty miles, 
up to Magee and Canassas, where the first settle¬ 
ments of the Indians are located. Dr. Kratochwill 
knows several who have ascended it up to Magee 
and Canassas, but who were driven back by the 
aborigines, with the exception of Captain Norman 
Rude, who crossed the Cordilleras in that direction, 
guided by a coloured native called Pluma. This 
guide related:—“En el mes de Octubre de 1864 
(rainy season) hemos subido el Bayano hasta el rio 
Canita (about ten miles above Jesus-Maria), entremos 
el Canita y le subimos dos dias por agua y dos dias 
por tierra, siempre in direccion norte, y despues 
de esos cuatro dias de viage hemos tenido el mar 
del norte a la vista.” A survey of this route would 
have been most interesting and valuable; unfortu¬ 
nately, although the engineers were on the spot, no 
surveys were made, owing to their fear* of the Indians. 
"We know that the Indians of the Bayano proceed to 
the Atlantic in one day. 
On our arrival we found a few Bayano Indians at 
Jesus-Maria, which they frequently visit, though they 
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