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Literature about Spruce Literature by Spruce Project publications Web resources Ethnobotanical resources Browse the collection notebooks Spruces diary
Diary for 1855 Diary for 1856 Diary for 1857
 

Spruce's travels for 1855
Taken from Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (1908)

  

Go to top of pageMarch

  

15th : 6 am

 left Manaus (Barra) along the Rio Amazonas (Solimoes) 

17th : pm

 passed the mouth of the large Rio Purús 

25th : pm

 reached Sao Paulo d'Olivença 
27th: 4 pm reached Tabatinga, Brazilian border town

29th

 reached Loreto, the first town in Peru 

30th : pm

 reached Cochiquinas on the south bank of the Rio Amazonas
Go to top of pageApril  
1st

reached Iquitos
2nd

reached Natua, on the north bank of the Amazon a few miles above the mouth of the Río Ucayali
16th : midday

left Nauta
18th : 8 pm

reached 'San Regis', old missionary town
21st

reached Parinari, left late the next day
26th

reached Urarinas

28th : night

left the Amazon and entered the Río Huallaga .....and stopped at the village of Lagunas (La Laguna)

Go to top of pageMay

 
4th : 5 pm

first view of the Andes....... the part seen is the "Serra de Curiayacu"
5th : 10 am Image: Yurimaguas/Huallaga

reached the town of Yurimaguas

Go to top of pageJune

 
12th : 7.30 pm Image: Pequepeque

Left Yurimaguas and continued up the Río Huallaga

13th : 4.30 pm

passed the mouth of the Río Cainarache (Cainaiuche)
17th : early morning

along a rapid where the river narrowed, passed some hot springs eminating from a black cliff
18th Image: Rio Huallaga Aguirre

traversed the rapids of the Río Huallaga, called Yuracyacu (Yurac-yacu) and Curiyacu (Curi-yacu) where "water here bursts into foam over rocks"

18th : evening

reached Chasuta on banks of Río Huallaga
19th

left for Shapaja (Chapaja), a short distance, but traversing many rapids
20th Image: Rio Huallaga near Shapaja

traversed the rapids of Esteroyacu (Estero-yacu), passed Shapaja

20th Image: Rio Mayo

reached mouth of Río Mayo, ascended Río Mayo to Río Cumbasa, from where they portaged the heavily laden canoes to Juan Guerra

late June Image: Tarapoto side of La Escalera

arrived in Tarapoto and established his residence there

Go to top of pageNovember

 
20th

left for Cerro Campana, arrived at village of Lamas (6 deg 5 mins South) the next day
22nd

reached Tabalosos on the upper Río Mayo
Go to top of pageNovember - December
 

intensive collecting in the region of Cerro Campana and "Lirio Pampa"

 


Photographs courtesy of S. Knapp (The Natural History Museum, London)

 

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