Foreward: This book is a truthful narrative of the exploration of the hereto-unknown areas of the Amazon basin, its tribes and their wars. All the places are real, all the people actually lived and died as described in these pages. The deaths and tortures were actually viewed by this author. The friendships and rites of blood brotherhood are accurate and are described as I witnessed them. Evidence of ancient civilizations was preserved and the priceless jewels recovered are now on display. The only fictitious part of this book is the Foreward.