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Title: The Putumayo : the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hardenburg, W. E. (Walter Ernest), 1886-1942
Subjects: Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 Peruvian Amazon Company, Ltd Rubber
Publisher: London : Fischer Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th a miscellaneous collectionof bultos, heaps of yuca and plantains, pots andkettles, peons in hammocks, pieces of rubber, andother things too numerous to mention. The inhabi-tants seemed to be taking life easily and not worry-ing about a rainy day, for they all knocked off assoon as we appeared and began simultaneously totalk and to fill themselves and us with aguardiente.They seemed to be a merry, jovial lot, and whenwe left insisted upon presenting us with a dozeneggs and a whole lot of papayas and plantains. At about 3.30 we reached the settlement of SenorFajardo, another bungalow, somewhat smaller thanMunoz, but on much the same style. Here wewere also cordially received by the proprietor, asmall, dark-complexioned man of about fifty, andhis buxom wife. As they both pressed us to stopall night with them we gladly assented, and, accom-panying them to the house, we were introduced toDrs. Ortiz and Hernandez, two of the recently exiledpolitical prisoners from Mocoa, who, it appears,
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A TYPICAL RIVER BANK CLEARING. (To face p. io8. THE UPPER PUTUMAYO 109 had escaped from the escort at this place and wereabout to set out for Iquitos via the River Napo. The two exiles seemed to be very decent fellows,and gave us a rather interesting account of theirimprisonment and of their subsequent escape fromthe escort; their companions, however, had electedto continue their journey to the Caraparana andtake a launch from there to Iquitos, as was ourintention ; but these two gentlemen had thoughtit more interesting to ascend the River Guepi bycanoe as far as possible, and then, crossing over-land to the River Santa Maria, an affluent of theNapo, to descend that river and the Napo to theirdestination, the Peruvian town of Iquitos on theAmazon. As we were bound for the same placewe promptly made an arrangement to the effectthat the ones who reached there last were to regalethe first-comers with a good dinner and half adozen bottles of the best champagne. We thencelebrated this comp

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