cucama

Updated: May 24, 2025

Departure from Barra First Day and Night on the Upper Amazons Desolate Appearance of River in the Flood Season Cucama Indians- -Mental Condition of Indians Squalls Manatee Forest Floating Pumice Stones from the Andes Falling Banks Ega and its Inhabitants Daily Life of a Naturalist at Ega The Four Seasons of the Upper Amazons

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

I was returning, my work accomplished, when I had occasion to spend a night at a small Indian village at a point where a certain tributary the name and position of which I withhold opens into the main river. The natives were Cucama Indians, an amiable but degraded race, with mental powers hardly superior to the average Londoner.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World

Our crew was composed of ten Indians of the Cucama nation, whose native country is a portion of the borders of the upper river in the neighbourhood of Nauta, in Peru. The Cucamas speak the Tupi language, using, however, a harsher accent than is common amongst the semi-civilised Indians from Ega downwards.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

I left Barra for Ega, the first town of any importance on the Solimoens, on the 26th of March, 1850. The distance is nearly 400 miles, which we accomplished in a small cuberta, manned by ten stout Cucama Indians, in thirty-five days. On this occasion, I spent twelve months in the upper region of the Amazons; circumstances then compelled me to return to Para.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons