The Putumayo : the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein . d on rapidly, crossing many fine, sparklingquebradas, which wound their way softly throughthe dense, tropical forest that covers the AmazonBasin from the Andes to the Atlantic. As we madeour way along the level path, we frequentlystopped to examine some strange plant, to pursuesome rare butterfly, or to shoot some new bird,whose brilliant plumage or sweet notes attractedour attention. Just before noon we passed a cave, a great, long, overhanging rock,
The Putumayo : the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein . d on rapidly, crossing many fine, sparklingquebradas, which wound their way softly throughthe dense, tropical forest that covers the AmazonBasin from the Andes to the Atlantic. As we madeour way along the level path, we frequentlystopped to examine some strange plant, to pursuesome rare butterfly, or to shoot some new bird,whose brilliant plumage or sweet notes attractedour attention. Just before noon we passed a cave, a great, long, overhanging rock, in someplaces of such a height as to permit us to standerect under it, and reached a large, sparklingstream, where, seated on a great rock, overspreadby the protecting shade of the forest, we had ourlunch. The traveller, entering for the first time thesegloomy forests, as yet untouched by the hand ofman, is bewildered by the splendour and magnifi-cence of a superabundant vegetation. Indeed, itis impossible to give any exact idea of the immensevariety of the thick-growing plants and of theincessant activity of Nature in their VEGETATIOX OX THE PERUVIAN AMAZON. [To face p. 74. HARDENBURGS NARRATIVE 75 The dense vegetation accumulates and piles up,forming, especially on the banks of the streamsand rivers, opaque masses, perfectly impenetrable,through which the suns rays never pierce. Thehigh giants of the forest tower above everything,the smaller trees and the shrubs crowd under theirbranches, while the numerous vines and bejucosknit the whole into one solid mass. In the afternoon we reached a cross whichmarked the divergence of our road into two trails,one going to Puerto Limon on the Caqueta, andthe other to Puerto Guineo on the River Guineo,an affluent of the Putumayo. This cross is aboutsix leagues from Mocoa and the same distance fromLimon and Guineo. Some distance beyond, westopped for the night in a couple of small ranchosbuilt about a month before by the sol
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