INDEX 341 ILLUSTRATIONS CHAINED INDIAN RUBBER GATHERERS IN THE STOCKS: ON THE PUTUMAYO RIVER Frontispiece FACING PAGE MAP 11 THE PERUVIAN AMAZON: FREE INDIANS OF THE UCAYALI RIVER 24 AN AFFLUENT OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON 36 INDIAN WOMAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY HUNGER: ON THE UPPER PUTUMAYO 53 VEGETATION ON THE PERUVIAN AMAZON 74 TROPICAL VEGETATION ON THE AFFLUENTS OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON 76 CANOE VOYAGING ON THE AMAZON: A NOONDAY REST 96 A TYPICAL RIVER BANK CLEARING 108 A HUITOTO INDIAN RUBBER GATHERER 152 GUAMARES INDIANS, OF THE HUITOTO TRIBE, IN DANCE COSTUME 162 RUBBER-COLLECTING RIVER LAUNCH 176 NATIVE WOMEN AND HUT AT IQUITOS 196 FREE INDIANS OF THE UCAYALI RIVER 208 A SIDE STREET AT IQUITOS 232 RIVER ITAYA, NEAR IQUITOS 250 HUITOTOS AT ENTRE RIOS AND BARBADOS NEGRO OVERSEER 286 [Illustration: Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of _The Times_.] THE PUTUMAYO CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION