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 . illage of huts was built. They were of two sorts,and constructed in the following manner:—twocanes, about twenty feet long, are stuck in theground at the distance of seven feet from eachother; they are notched at the height of four feet,and the parts above the notch are brought downand fastened together to form the ridge of theroof. Four other canes are stuck at the
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 . illage of huts was built. They were of two sorts,and constructed in the following manner:—twocanes, about twenty feet long, are stuck in theground at the distance of seven feet from eachother; they are notched at the height of four feet,and the parts above the notch are brought downand fastened together to form the ridge of theroof. Four other canes are stuck at the corners,and, being notched at three feet from the ground,their upper parts are brought together, and beingtied to the top of the uprights already described,form the gable-ends : another cane is fastenedhorizontally to the corner canes, at their bend, andthe roof is covered Avith palm leaves. The otherkind of hut was built by an arch, somewhat in theshape of a horse-shoe, formed by two creeperstwisted together, with their ends stuck in theground for a centre; and a few palm branchesalso fixed in the ground at each end of the in-tended hut, and notched so as to bring them overto nieet upon the arch, and form the roof. Both. RIVER CHIPURANA. 161 these huts are impervious to the rain, and underthem the musquito curtain is an effectual pro-tection from insects. January 15th.—After a stormy night, we againproceeded on our journey; and owing to thescarcity of water, and constant impediments fromfallen trees, were obliged to use poles in prefer-ence to paddles. The trees were very frequent;we were obliged sometimes to cut away theirbranches to make a passage, and sometimes todras: the canoes across their trunks. The bankswere thickly wooded, and the trees so mattedtogether by creepers, that there appeared to beone solid mass of vegetation. We particularlyadmired one, wdiose blossoms, of a red colour,somewhat resembled the lilac, and hung over thestream in a very graceful manner. W
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