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Updated: April 30, 2025
On the Napo itself, still higher up than Archidona where the stream, fed by the snows of the grand volcano of Cotopaxi, issues from the spurs of the Andes there were they most likely to accomplish the object of their expedition, and thither determined they to go.
The Rio Ansupi brings down the largest grains of gold: it flows into the Napo, south of the Archidona, above the mouth of the Misagualli. There Acunha and Father Fritz placed their Laguna del Oro; and various accounts which I obtained at San Carlos from Portuguese Americans explain perfectly what La Condamine has related of the plates of beaten gold found in the hands of the natives.
Beyond Archidona the rest of the journey to Quito would have to be performed on horseback, or rather muleback; but they were not going direct to Quito. Between them and the old Peruvian capital lay the eastern Cordillera of the Andes, and it was along its declivities, and in the valleys between its transverse spurs, facing the Montana, they would have to search for the haunts of the bear.
Passing many scenes of interest, and meeting with several other strange incidents, our travellers at length arrived at Archidona a small town at the head of boat navigation upon the Napo, and the usual port of embarkation for persons proceeding from the country around Quito to the regions upon the Amazon.
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