Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: undertaken with a view of ascertaining the practicability of a navigable communication with the Atlantic, by the rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon . t found themselves most cruelly deceived. Theyare said to be short, and to have beards. The western side of the Ucayali, from theVuelta del Diablo to the junction of the Pachitea,is an uninhabited ridge of mountains, graduallydecreasing as they approach the confluence of thatriver with the Ucayali. Behind, or to the west-ward of this ridge, are the Cashibos, or Call
Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: undertaken with a view of ascertaining the practicability of a navigable communication with the Atlantic, by the rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon . t found themselves most cruelly deceived. Theyare said to be short, and to have beards. The western side of the Ucayali, from theVuelta del Diablo to the junction of the Pachitea,is an uninhabited ridge of mountains, graduallydecreasing as they approach the confluence of thatriver with the Ucayali. Behind, or to the west-ward of this ridge, are the Cashibos, or Callisecas,or Carapaches. Their territory extends along thePampa del Sacramento to the heads of the riversAguaytia and Pisqui. No probable estimate canbe formed of their numbers, for no one dare ven-ture among them, and they live scattered about intheir forests like wild beasts. The Padre thinksthat their population has increased of late, for theyhave advanced to, and taken possession of, thecountry round the heads of the Aguaytia and Pis-qui. It is said that about forty years ago theyinhabited the banks of the Huallaga; but fromthe constant annoyance of the civilized Indians onthat river, they quitted that station, and concen-. < •»T**^\ » [ V^VM CASHIBOS. 233 trated themselves on the Pachitea, where thegreatest number of them are now to be no canoes, they never quit their district,but they navigate the Pachitea and Aguaytia onbalsas, or rafts. They have the reputation of being cannibals,and the fact seems to be well established. All theneighbouring Indians agree in the assertion; andif it wanted confirmation, it was, to our minds,sufficiently corroborated by an anecdote related tous by Padre Plaza, of a Cashibo boy whom hehad in the convento, who one day expressed agreat desire to eat one of his companions, and wasactually proceeding to cut his throat with a knife,which he was prevented from doing: Avhen re-monstrated with upon the atrocity of the act, heseeme
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