marches the Indians would have to carry their own food too; they get no food except what they bring themselves. They would only get food from the white men during the time they are actually kept in the station. The station would have a big pot of rice and beans boiled. This would be the food. He has seen sometimes one hundred and fifty people thus marched in. Those who have brought the fixed amount of rubber are allowed to go back after this meal. The others are punished by being kept in _cepo_. Some are put in a hole in the cellars of the house. There is such a hole at Ultimo Retiro which the Consul can see when he gets there. "The Indians are not paid at all on these occasions for such rubber as they bring in. They only get payment when the full _fabrico_--say, seventy-five days--is completed. These commissions take place sometimes every ten days, sometimes every fifteen days, according to the period fixed for each _puesta_, depending on the neighbourhood. Sealey gives this as a general indication of the manner in which he has been employed on 'commissions' and collecting the Indians from the forest. He next states he wishes to describe what took place on a certain occasion when he with other Barbados men went on a commission from Abisinia under Jiménez. They were stationed at Morelia at the time, and went under Jiménez to the Caquetá. It was a journey to catch fugitive Indians who had fled from the rubber-working, and was soon after Sealey had gone to Abisinia; he thinks it was in June, 1908. On the first day's march from Morelia, about five o'clock in the afternoon, when they were some one and a half day's distance from the Caquetá, they caught an old Indian woman in the path. Jiménez asked the old woman where the rest of the Indians were. Sealey states she was a bit frightened. She told him that the next day at eleven o'clock he would get to the house where some Indians were. She was an old woman, not able to run. They did not tie her up. They went on with her, keeping her all night in camp until about two o'clock of the next day, and then Jiménez asked her, 'Where is the house; where are the Indians?' The old woman stood up, and said nothing. She could not speak; she kept her eyes on the ground. Jiménez said to her: 'You were telling me lies yesterday, but now you have got to speak the truth.' With that he called his wife--he had an Indian woman, the woman who is still with him--and he said to his wife: 'Bring me that rope off my hammock.' She took the rope off and gave it to him, and with that he tied the old woman's hands behind her back. There were two trees standing just like that--one there and one there. He made an Indian cut a post to stretch across between the two trees. Then he hauled the old woman up, her feet were not touching the ground at all. He said to one of the boys, a _muchacho_: 'Bring me some leaves--some dry leaves,' he said, and he put these under the feet of the old woman