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impediments to navigation as the Paranapura, and
the road overland is more elevated and very
rough.
VOYAGE UP THE HUALLAGA TO CMASUTA, AND
THENCE TO JUAN GUERRA AND TARAPOTO
On Tuesday, June 12, at 7.30 A.M., we left Yurimaguas
for Chasuta, myself and goods occupying two
ubadas (large dug-out canoes), one with nine, the
other with eight Indians. The river had been
sinking for some time, but for four days much
rain had fallen and the river had risen again.
When we started it was 8 feet below high-water
mark.
On the next day at 4.30 P.M. we reached the
mouth of the Cainaiuche, up which there is a way to
Tarapoto when the Huallaga
the pongos of Chasuta impassable. As rain seemed
is so full as to render
coming on, we remained for the night on a sandbank,
where it took us near an hour to erect some
twenty tarnbos (shelters) of palm-leaves, under
which we hung our mosquito-nets, and so many
green tents scattered over the sand had a pretty
appearance, the picture being completed
fires blazing in the midst, around which croudcd
1>\- t\\o
the Indians until rain compelled them to turn in.
After the rain a very strong and cold south wind
sprang up more searching than any I
h,i\e |elt
since I left England. A good many \\atei1o\\l
begin to appear on the beaches as the receding
waters gradually expose them. Amon^ them we
had numbers of Jabirus and (iarnas (cranes and
herons), and one day two majestic Tayuyns (th-