Identifier: putumayodevilspa00hard (find matches)
Title: The Putumayo : the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hardenburg, W. E. (Walter Ernest), 1886-1942
Subjects: Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 Peruvian Amazon Company, Ltd Rubber
Publisher: London : Fischer Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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slaveryof the Indians will end. But which will be ex-terminated first, the Indians or the rubber-trees, itis hard to say. In conclusion, I will state that if there were noIndians in the region of the Putumayo to workfree, the company would have nothing to deal in,and consequently would fall to the ground, for itsassets are acquired by pillage. Trusting that this will help you somewhat in thetask you have undertaken of unmasking thesewolves. Celestino Lopez. (Sworn before) Federico M. Pizarro,Notary Public. IQUITOS, May 17, 1909. Sr. W. E. Hardenrurg,—In reply to your letterof the 16th inst., I give you the following exactand reliable information of what I have witnessedduring my stay on the River Putumayo, to be usedfor any purpose that you deem! proper :— On the 15th of June, 1907, I arrived at thesection Matanzas, which is under the orders of thesanguinary and criminal Armando Norman, thechief of this section. As soon as I arrived heordered a commission, composed of twenty-five
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THE CRIMES OF THE PUTUMAYO 251 men, to go out on a correria and to bring inchained up, all the Indians they, might find, togetherwith their women and children. The banditNorman furnished to this commission, as food forthe twenty days they would be absent, fifteen tinsof sardines, at the same time ordering that nobody,should carry any more clothes than he wore on hisback, in order to avoid the extra weight, for inthis way they would be better able to carry out theorders he imparted to them. At the end of about twenty days the commissionreturned, bringing in, among men, women, andchildren, about thirty Indians, all in chains, who,as soon as they arrived at the house, were deliveredto Norman. Then Norman stepped up and askedthree old Indians and two young women, theirdaughters, where the rest of the Indians were. Theyreplied that they did not know, as several daysbefore they had all dispersed in the forest, owingto the fear they had of him. Norman then graspedhis machete and murdered the

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