Text Appearing Before Image: Fig. 11. Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 12. Fig. 11—A temporary shelter-hut on a sand-bar near the great bend of the Uru-bamba (see map, Fig. 8). The Machiganga Indians use these cane shelters during thefishing season, when the river is low. Fig. 12—Thirty-foot canoe in a rapid above Pongo de Mainique. THE RAPIDS AND CANYONS OF THE URUBAMBA 11 the river is a sugar plantation, whose owner lives in the coolermountains, a days journey away; on the right bank is a smallclearing planted to sugar cane and yuca, and on the edge of it isa reed hut sheltering three inhabitants, the total population ofRosalina. The owner asked our destination, and to our reply thatwe should start in a few days for Pongo de Mainique he offeredtwo serious objections. No one thought of arranging so difficulta journey in less than a month, for canoe and Indians were diffi-cult to find, and the river trip was dangerous. Clearly, to startwithout the loss of precious time would require unusual exertion.We immediately despatched an Indian messenger
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