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All this day was spent in descending to the island of Yapura, after which the river, less interfered with, makes navigation much easier. The current is not so rapid and the islets are easily avoided, so that there were no touchings or groundings.
On the western side of the River Yapura, near where it pours its waters into the Amazon a forest region inundated during the greater part of the year there lives in small troops, high up among the crowns of the lofty trees, where it feeds on fruits of various descriptions, a small, almost tailless monkey, its face glowing with the most vivid scarlet hue.
The next great affluent is the Yapura, which, rising in the mountains of New Granada, takes a south-easterly course for one thousand miles, its principal mouth entering the Amazon opposite the town of Ega; but it has numberless small channels, the streams of which, two hundred miles apart, flow into the great river.
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