The daily union., 1852-11-28

,sntyhye leagues IN circumference, which Is inter-
1,ed by many riyulels The soil is fertile, producing
great abundance cotton, coffee. sugar, indigo, aad CO.
"a a well as everything else TO which the climate is
haed Here the planain continues without any other
80 than that required 10 The noxious weeds, TO
lnee ID full yigor for from fifty TO sixty years. Cot
"a ives a crop 10 six months from the seed rice in five
aabs and indigo grows wild. Neat cattle and sheep
Yvs here and multiply most rapidly. Population OF the
and lis two ports 10 lsl5. $3.50; annual births about
o,. deaths, 49, Principal branch of industry, cotton
n,hot which they manufacture between thirty-hye
"a torty thousand yards. IL is made by hand, and
,aa Of our common cotton is worth there two of
that .
t,bs country, which ia Chachapoyas is worth twelve
esnls the yard.
oas ooend of white wax Is worth four yards of cot
II aood. sized bull, one hundred yards; well-grown
=, hog sixty yards big sheep, twelve yards; twenty
e.. bounds OF coffee, six yards twenty i've gallons OF
- ,Celye Yards; laying hen, four ounces OF wax !;
chicken, two ounces twenty-five pounds OF rice IN
49, busk a half pound OF wax; twenty-five pounds
n' ,,o ounces twenty five pounds beans. four rounces
p"'C., o yucas, weighing from fifty to sixty pounds
,nces. twenty Eve pounds seed cotton, eight
"O.ss bunch OF pasians, W ighing from forty TO
oa ,,pas three needles Sorax, cinnamon, miks OF
nv NY ums and other pfoiucts OF the forests, have no
ssa value; but they may be had in quantity from the
Indians al merely nominal prices
aa ,ana Transportation from Tarapoo to Moyabamba
,u,h ,s nounaon OF 1900. is done on the backs OF
r.Maas Seyen,y-hve pounds make load, and the
f;h, "a ak wards OF cotton. valued at three yards Of
az, common "ipenny h' snft
% nav of common laborer 10 four ounces OF wax per
av ana found "with ciicha at discretion"
rh;. is ,be most important town in the province OF
Mainas on account Of its proximity to navgabe waters
aa he eoonexon with such large extent OF territory
that is not liable to overflow
From Tarapolo TO Chasuta you pass the villages OF
Juan Guerra and Shapaia Chasuta is at the head OF
n0o,errupted navigation on the Huaaga. Lieutenant
Herndon, coming down al low water met between this
l,ee and the mouth OF the Amazon with nowhere less
h.n five feet OF water. The high-water mark is forty
,et above the stage in which the river was when he
wa, there From Chasu.a 10 the mouth OF the Amazon
tbe distance by upwards OF 5000 miles and for
half the wear the Pennsylvania seventy four, would find
wafer enough to reach that village from the sea.
POPULATION of Chasua 1881; distance to Tarapoto by
land six leagues cost OF transportation. one pound OF
wax the Indian load, pound of wax being equivalent
10 four yards of cotton. Cows Sheep horses, and hogs
thrive we'll Productions those OF Tarapoto.
Yurmaquas twenty. four leagues below Chasuia; pop
pation 3l9; country fertile. A good road can be cul
from this place almost ia straight line to Mozobama
distance thirty leagues.
Santa Cruz is thirty five leagues below Chasuta Here
white wax is worth one and third yards cotton, and
five pounds wax are sold for white handled knife
Population 800.
Cbamicuros, thirty y.nine leagues below Chasuta with
population oil 81. falaiDie resins ana gums aoounu
in the woods
Laguna forty -four leagues below Chasuta, and four
above the mouth OF the tiualaga, has population ol
7l2, and fertile soil
Urarnas, on the Amazon, FIVE leagues below the mouth
Of the Huasga-popuation lorty-three. THIS IS an I'M
prtan place on account OF the immense quantities IN It's
vicinity of the tree which produces the gum-copal
Passing by The villages Of Parlnar and San Regis, we
come 10 Nauia the capital Of the district 1t is situated
on he right bank OF the Amazon, forysy leagues below
The mouth of the Haall.ga, and ninetyfoar below the
lead oil uninterrupted navigation on that river.
isto this place that BAIL. by treaty with Peru, ha:
a contracted for line oil steamers, under the Brazilian
Gag, from Para at the moalh OF the Amazon This line
/. have monopoly OF steamboat navigation on the
Amazon for thirty years. with bonus OF 100000 pei
annum for the first fifteen.
| lthereFore becomes place OF importance; and as
shall have occasion TO alude TO again IN connexior
with this steamboat line under the Brazilian flag, will
here lake the more notice OF it,
Nsuta is also only half league above the mouth o.
The Ueaya, another tributary OF the Amazon, and larger
than the Huallaga-populaiion $40.
Here one yard of English American cotton worth
two and wo-ths yards OF the cotton cloth OF The coun
y; aud thirty -four pounds OF sarsapara are gwen To-
egh yards OF the latter full grown hen is worth sis
needless chicken three and fifty sixty pounds o.
yucas six. Portuguese merchant has established a
| house here
Anaguas seven miles below Nauta, is an important
point Though present il has bu, 2i0 inhahitants) on
account o! its great extent OF fertile lands.
Passing Amaguas With IFS $40 inhabitants, lquitos with
It's 27, and Aran with its eighty, arrive, twenty
sagues below the mouth OF the Ucayal which comes
oa tie south, al the mouth of the Rio Napo, trlbua
y ION E-uldof There is here settlement consisting
fone family Of Mos Indians anl one fugitYe.saye
IRON Brazil-toial thiry-one
This river 200 yards broa al iis mouth, and is nav
gable for 800 miles II is rich 10 gold its banks are in
haoited BY hostile tribes OF Indians and covered with
napanla and other valuable products OF the forests
These Indians make the finest and most beautiful ham.
nock' that found in the Pampa del Sacramento price
hammock two yards OF cotton. The trade in posons
makes this an important place.
Pebas is thirteen leagues below the mouth OF the
Napo has population OF 3s7, and fine country round
'0oal ls productions white and black wax, sarra-
aHa, vanilla, poisons, storax "chambra,' hammocks
Pch copa incense, India rubber, milk o the tree,
md many cuiosiies which the Indians, who, though
wa and savage, friendly TO the white man, usually
Niag - exchange for beads, irinkets, &c
Waite wax is worth two yards OF cotton; black, half
aHy.four pounds sarsapara, twenty yards ham.
nocS, Two yards little pol OF poison, -four yards one
pound vanilla, eight yards.
thence 10 Loreto the frontier town OF Peru, have
te small villages Loreo is 100 leagues below the head
uninterrupted navigation OF the Huallaga; population,
y 10 this village you find PREPARATION from the wild
iO'a' which is very paaiabe, wholesome, and nu-
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