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CANELOS TO BAfrOS 163
bridge might still be passed by one time without much risk.
person at a
Here I found a stronger and cooler wind than
even at the Rio Verde, and as I had with me no
garment proper for the cool region, I was glad to
purchase of a carpenter at Antombos a new poncho,
of two thicknesses, of scarlet bazeta or baize. This
was a welcome addition to my blankets at night,
and afterwards served me much in riding about on
the cold high lands.
July i. Our kind hostess gave us an early
breakfast, and then we began our last day's journey.
On reaching the bridge of Agoyan, we found it to
consist of three or four trunks of trees laid across
from cliff to cliff
(for the river here foams between
and covered with
steep black walls of trachyte),
branches of Retama (Spartium junceuni) and earth.
Of the trunks only one remained unbroken, and we
crossed it with cautious steps and slow, but without
accident. We were still a league from the village
of Baiios, but a short way beyond the bridge we
reached a farm called Ulva, where the owner
(a widow lady) was so good as to lend me a horse,
mounted on which I arrived at Baiios early in the
afternoon. Following
the recommendation of the
lady of Antombos, I sought out the Teniente parro-
quial, and requested him to procure me a lodging.
He accordingly put me into an unoccupied house
in the playa, one of the only two tiled houses in the
village. See me, therefore, at the end of my travel
of 1 02 days (counting from my departure from
Tarapoto on the 22nd of March), but by
no means
at the end of my " travayle."
As I arrived at the Hacienda del Rio Verde