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 . the Colonel, to keep the muleteers, ifnecessary, to carry our luggage to Mayro. November 1st.—We all started at nine, ,except the Colonel, who remained for the rein-forcements we expected from Panao. This weconcluded and hoped would be our last journeyon horseback : the day brightened on us, and withthe powers the Colonel possessed everythingseemed to promise ou
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 . the Colonel, to keep the muleteers, ifnecessary, to carry our luggage to Mayro. November 1st.—We all started at nine, ,except the Colonel, who remained for the rein-forcements we expected from Panao. This weconcluded and hoped would be our last journeyon horseback : the day brightened on us, and withthe powers the Colonel possessed everythingseemed to promise our being soon at Mayro. Wehad scarcely ascended the hill over the town whenit began to rain, and the paths, already knee-deepin mud, became exceedingly difficult for the beaststo wade through, and their extreme depth andnarrowness obliged us often to dismount. Inmany places large trees had fallen across the road,which forced us to alight to alloAv the animals topass under them, and in others they had to climbover large blocks of stone. Vegetation here was extremely luxuriant: thewhole forest formed one continued mass, inter-woven by creepers, and covered A\ith moss ofmany dijfferent kinds, and of the most Road between Muna and Pozuxu. MUNA TO POZUZU. 83 111 many parts the bogs through which the roadhay were deep enough to allow the Ijeasts to sinkup to their bellies: they had been originallycovered with logs, making what is called, in theUnited States, a Corduroy road, but whichthe rains had rotted and left only as obstructions ;and some of the paths were so narrow, and soclose to the edge, that the passage was mosthazardous. Added to these impediments, therewere three rapid streams to pass, which afterheavy rain become so swollen as to be very dan-gerous. In one the ford is a narrow shelf of slip-peiy rock, forming a ledge between the upper andlower parts of a water-fall, which threatens towash the traveller into the abyss below, whichwas not less than a th
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