ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
We had endless trouble in this rapid, followed by a second 
one, practically a continuation of the first. 
For 1,000 metres the navigation was extremely dan¬ 
gerous. We unloaded and reloaded the canoe dozens of 
times that day, although the work of taking the baggage 
over on our heads was not so troublesome now, as we had 
very little baggage left. But if we had not much, it was 
still the heaviest cases which remained. All together they 
weighed between five and six hundred pounds. The river 
ran beside a range of hills on the left side. 
When we halted, exhausted, late at night we had 
travelled that day the meagre distance of 9,900 metres. 
My men killed two large spider monkeys, which 
supplied them with a meal. I could not touch them, as 
the monkeys looked too human for words. It made me 
positively ill to see one of my men biting with great gusto 
at an arm and hand which had been roasted on the flames, 
and which looked exactly like a portion of a human corpse. 
The smell, too, of the roasted monkeys was similar to the 
odour of roasted human beings, which I knew well, as I 
had on several previous occasions been at rough cremations 
of people in Japan, in the Himahlya (or Himalayas), 
and in Africa. 
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