Carlos Fitzcarrald
Fitzcarrald at age 30.
Fitzcarrald at age 30.
Born
Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald López

6 July 1862
Died9 July 1897(1897-07-09) (aged 35)
NationalityPeruvian
OccupationRubber baron
Spouse
Aurora Velazco
(m. 1888)

Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald López (6 July 1862 – 9 July 1897)[1] was a Peruvian rubber baron. He was born in San Luis, Ancash. In the early 1890s, he discovered the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald, which was a portage route that allowed transportation from the Ucayali River into the Madre de Dios River basin. He drowned in a river accident on the Urubamba River in 1897.

Early life

Fitzcarrald was the eldest son of an Irish-American sailor who later became a trader and married a Peruvian wife.[2] Both his father[3] and grandfather were American sailors. Williams Fitzgerald, the grandfather was the captain of a sailboat who drowned in a shipwreck. His son, Williams Fitzgerald Junior migrated to Peru, and settled down in San Luis de Huari. There he met Fermín Lopez, as well as his daughter who he fell in love with and married. The marriage resulted in seven children in total, whose names were: Isaís Fermín, Rosalía, Lorenzo, Grimalda, Delfin, Fernando, and Edelmira. He focused on the education of his firstborn Isaís, ensuring that his son went to well-known schools in the country.

Isaís was a distinguished student: he was guided by his father's desire that he would become a sailor, specializing in naval engineering. Williams planned to send his firstborn to a nautical school in the United States to further his education around 1878. Before this, Williams encouraged his son to take a trip along the Marañon to sell merchandise. The trip allowed Isaís to make a strong profit off of the cargo, and familiarize himself with the unexplored region of Peru. During the business venture, he was stabbed after confronting someone in a bar. The wound was so bad that newspapers reported that he had died. His father paid for the medical expenses but suffered from grief. After Isaís recovered, he travelled to find better treatment and on the way back, he found out his father had passed away. After gathering blessings from the family, Isaís moved away from his hometown with his father's maps.[4]

Isaís ventured to Cerro de Pasco to join the military, after finding out a war with Chile had broken out. He ran into a group of natives, tied up by soldiers who were taking them to Pasco as 'volunteers.' Isaís protested, demanding the group of soldiers release the captives who complained about mistreatment. The soldiers asked him to produce identification, but he was not a citizen and had left baptismal and school certificates at home. He was arrested after the soldiers found his father's maps, accusing him of being a Chilean spy. There was no proof of identification for months until the day he was supposed to be executed. Fray Carlos was supposed to administer last rights: the two previously met in San Luis. Carlos didn't recognize Isaís at first on account of sickness and weakness but recognized his story. During a confession, Carlos was able to verify that he was the first-born son of Williams Fitzgerald Junior. The Fray immediately declared under oath that the prisoner indeed was Isaís Fermín Fitzcarrald. Isaís later added Carlos to his name on account of Fray Carlos saving his life.[5]

On the advice of Fray Carlos, Isaís decided to travel to Loreto to seek “the happiness that the civilized had denied him.“ He disappeared without a historical trace for ten years in the jungle. Multiple rumors tried to explain his absence. In 1888, a report by a missionary named Father Sala reported hearing of an “Amachengua”[6] or reincarnation of Inca Juan Santos Atahualpa.[7] The white figure claimed that the “Sun Father” had sent him with a message that the tribes were to work together. The man to obey on earth and representative of the sun was Carlos Fitzcarrald. He threatened that if they did not listen, the rivers would dry up and the game would be chased away.[8]

Gabriel Sala reported: "Fitzgerrald intelligently exploited the belief that the Campas have that one day the Son of the Sun will come down from the sky. The rubber worker, to provide himself with pawns, sent emissaries to the nomadic tribes and scattered in the immensity of the jungle, with the slogan of making it known to his ears that the They used a surprising cunning to convince the Indians to abandon their freedom; by means of seductive words and gifts, they reduced them, and fixed their awnings on the margins of the nos, to have them more at hand as freighters for the collection of the rubber, or pawns for the cultivation of the chácaras."[8]

Rubber baron

By 1888, Fitzcarrald was already the richest rubber entrepreneur on the Ucayali. This year, he visited Iquitos with a large quantity of rubber and many Asháninka servants. In the city, he visited Manuel Cardozo, the owner of a Brazilian firm that exported rubber. There, he fell in love at first sight with Cardozo's stepdaughter, Aurora Velazco who was a widow. They soon married, and Fitzcarrald entered a business partnership with his father-in-law Cardozo to extract rubber in the Ucayali.[lower-alpha 1] Carlos already had knowledge and links with the Asháninkas, Humaguacas, Cashivos and other tribes they could exploit to tap rubber. He made fun and jokes out of the rumors that the natives of the Ucayali were savage cannibals: stating someone wise made up the tale.[10] This new coalition dominated trade and the rubber industry in the Atalaya area,[11] which was near the confluence of the Tambo and Urubamba Rivers.[12][13] Fitzcarrald owned various stations and outposts on the Tambo River as well.[14] Many of the independent merchants around the Tambo and Ucayali River eventually began working with Fitzcarrald.[15] By 1891 most of the Piro natives on the Urubamba River were indebted to Fitzcarrald.[14][lower-alpha 2]

An important indigenous figure who was a part of Fitzcarrald's network was an Ashaninká chief named Venancio Amaringo Campa. Amaringo began working with Carlos Fitzcarrald as early as 1893.[16] [lower-alpha 3] Amaringo provided labor for this network by enslaving other native groups, which were then added onto the rubber extracting workforce.[18] Slave raids were organized from the Unini River and these raids were primarily focused around the Gran Pajonal area.[19][20][21][lower-alpha 4] Amaringo also organized "punitive expeditions" against other entrepreneurs that Fitzcarrald had disagreements with.[16] Fitzcarrald also had alliances with other Ashaninká chiefs that would capture and trade slaves.[22] The rubber firms would "advance" supplies to the Ashaninká groups that had agreed to extract rubber, and in this way many natives became indebted to the firms.[23] The Ashaninká who did not agree to collect rubber were instead the targets of correrias, or slave raids.[24]

He became established as a rubber baron in the late 19th century. Determined to find a way to transport rubber out of the Madre de Dios region, he exploited native workers. In 1894, he forced them under pain of death to dismantle and transport a ship over a mountain during the turn-of-the-20th-century rubber boom in the Amazon Basin.[25] Carlos Fitzcarrald became known as the "King of caucho" rubber and caucho refers to latex extracted from the Castilloa elastica tree.[14] Castilloa trees are not suitable for long term exploitation, and the most effective way of extracting rubber from this tree is to cut it down[26] and then create deep incisions into the tree with the intention of collecting as much rubber at one time as possible.[27] This incentivized and necessitated constant movement for new sources of rubber trees.[14]


Starting in 1894, he explored the Madre de Dios region of BAP Fitzcarrald in Lake Sandoval, Madre de Dios, Peru. He founded the City of Puerto Maldonado and explored the area that is now the Manu Biosphere Reserve. To achieve this, it was necessary to transport his steamship piece by piece over the mountains to the Madre de Dios basin.[25] This ship was the Contamana, a boat weighing three tons,[28] and it was transported across the isthmus with the effort of around one thousand Piro[29] and Ashaninka natives, as well as around one hundred non-natives.[30] The portage of the Contamana occurred on Fitzcarrald's second expedition across the isthmus. The Contamana was bought in Iquitos after Fitzcarrald returned from his first trip across the route.[31] Ernesto de La Combe stated that there were three hundred Piros, five hundred Ashaninka, and two hundred nonindigenous men on this second expedition. It took six hundred men to drag the Contamana's hull across the isthmus, logs were placed underneath the boat so it was easier to transport.[31]

Fitzcarrald is credited with the discovery of a short passage overland between the Mishagua River, a tributary of the Urubamba, and the Manu, a tributary of the Madre de Dios River. The former leads into the Ucayali River. The Isthmus of Fitzcarrald was later named after him, as discovery of this route enabled the transportation of rubber from the Madre de Dios region.[32] Rubber was then transferred to ships on the Mishagua, which could reach the Urubamba, the Ucayali River, and thereby down the Amazon to markets and Atlantic ports for export.[25] The isthmus was attended to by Piro natives, who took on the task of portage and the shipment of goods across the route.[28] There was also a rubber station at Mishagua, established by Fitzcarrald[33] in 1892.[34] It could take around fifty five minutes to walk from one end of the isthmus to the other end.[31]

In an article titled "'Purús Song': Nationalization and Tribalization in Southwestern Amazonia", anthropologist Peter Gow refuted the claims that Fitzcarrald and later his brother Delfín had discovered any portage routes.[lower-alpha 5] Gow emphasized that "[t]hese were standard routes used by Piro people moving between river systems, and are regularly mentioned in the earlier literature... What the 'discoveries' related in the histories actually relate is the increasingly direct articulation of this trading system with the burgeoning rubber extraction industry in the latter half of the nineteenth century."[32]

A 1904 map of the isthmus that Fitzcarrald discovered.

Anthropologist Stefano Varese described a strategy used by Fitzcarrald against the natives, stating: "With a deep knowledge of the mountain, he knew how to use traditional rivalries... The method is simple: Winchesters are given to the Cunibo who must pay in Kampa slaves and then Winchesters are given to the Kampa who must pay in Cunibo [and other] slaves…"[35][lower-alpha 6] Yesica Patiachi, an Indigenous educator stated that to the Harakmbut, Fitzcarrald had "caused the greatest genocide of all time: on one day alone, 3,000 Harakbut were murdered, turning the rivers of our territory red”.[37][lower-alpha 7] Hundreds of Toyeri and Araseri natives were massacred in this part of the Madre de Dios because they would not extract rubber for Fitzcarrald or permit his enterprise to travel through their territory.[11] An unknown number of their villages were also destroyed.[20][lower-alpha 8] The atrocities and abuses perpetrated on behalf of Fitzcarrald were never subjected to a systematic inquiry or investigation during the rubber boom.[39]

Fitzcarrald's expeditions into the Madre de Dios region are considered to be the root of the modern-day divide between the local Yine and Mashco Piro peoples.[lower-alpha 9] The Yine are the descendants of the natives that Fitzcarrald forced to work for him, while the Mashco are the descendants of the natives that fled following Fitzcarrald's arrival.[2] According to Zacarías Valdez Lozano, who was working with Fitzcarrald at the time,[lower-alpha 10] pressure from the rubber barons had essentially evicted the Mashcos from the Manu River.[42]

Most of the Mashco-Piro demographic was slaughtered in 1894 by men working for Fitzcarrald.[43] Euclides da Cunha detailed one massacre in his essay Os caucheros. Fitzcarrald, along with a Piro interpreter attempted to convince a Mashco chief that rather than fighting it would be more advantageous to enter an alliance with Fitzcarrald. The Mashco chief wanted to see the "arrows" that they had brought and was handed a Winchester cartridge. He tried to injure himself with this bullet and after comparing it to an arrow of his own, which he stabbed into his arm, this chief walked away from Fitzcarrald with confidence. After a physical conflict between the two groups lasting half an hour, one hundred Mashcos including the chief had been killed.[44] Da Cunha described the small army that accompanied Fitzcarrald as "disparate physiognomies of the tribes he had subjugated".[45][lower-alpha 11] Dominican missionary José Álvarez provided details regarding another conflict between Fitzcarrald and a Mashco tribe, which may have been the same incident described by da Cunha.

After a beating of drums, Fitzcarrald replied, via an interpreter, that if the Mashco opposed him he would give them a good thrashing, right down to the tiniest baby... the Indians retreated... they tied objects (gifts brought by the rubber barons) to their arrowheads and, drawing their bows, fired them at the encampment... All the tribes rose up to stop Fitzcarrald who, to put an end to the Mashco, prepared a raid with his captains Maldonado, Galdós and Sanchez... In the Comerjali stream they took many prisoners; they executed, after a brief trial, 30 Mashco and destroyed 46 canoes...[lower-alpha 12] Another day, the Mashco killed more than 100 people and so the rubber barons attacked them, by river and by land, with such violence that the Manu was covered in corpses... you couldn’t draw water from the river for all the bodies of Mashco and rubber workers, because it was a war to the death. This took place in 1894.

José Álvarez[42]

There were also raids against the natives on the other tributaries of the Manu, most notably the Sahuinto, Sotileja and Fierro. Most of the indigenous men Fitzcarrald's enterprise found during their slave raids along the Manu River were killed.[47][24] Fitzcarrald's captain Maldonado led a campaign in the Sahuinto area where his group killed many of Mashco men there before enslaving their women and children.[48] Captain Sanchez destroyed native farms, villages, and canoes on the Sotileja River.[49]

On September 4, 1894, Fitzcarrald arrived at "El Carmen" rubber station, which the Bolivian rubber baron Nicolás Suárez Callaú owned on the Madre de Dios River.[50][51][lower-alpha 13] Fitzcarrald had travelled on the Contamana steamship along with merchandise, which he offered to the Bolivian at lower rates than Suarez could find along the Madeira and Beni Rivers.[52][51] The Isthmus also provided a safer route for Suárez to export the rubber his enterprise collected.[51][lower-alpha 14] Suárez decided to invest five hundred thousand Bolivian pesos for the improvement and further development of the new route Fitzcarrald had established.[53] Fitzcarrald later travelled further down the Madre de Dios River to the Orton River, where he met Antonio de Vaca Díez, who was a senator for the Bolivian department of Beni and also a rubber baron.[53][lower-alpha 15] Vaca Díez was invited into a newly developing business network, which would create an association of Peruvian, Bolivian, and Brazilian rubber exporters.{{sfn|Istmo de Fiscarrald|1904|p=6 The Contamana steamship was sold to Fitzcarrald's new Bolivian associates, however it sank on the same day of its sale, due to unforeseen damages incurred during its travelling.[51] Around three hundred men were distributed at points ranging from twenty to thirty miles between Mishagua and El Carmen to establish new supply stations, which would support the enterprise's operations in the area.[55]

Transportation on the Madre de Dios for this new partnership would be provided by the steamships La Esperanza, La Shiringa, and La Contamana: while on the Ucayali the steamships Bermúdez[56][lower-alpha 16], La Unión[57][lower-alpha 17], Laura, Dorotea[lower-alpha 18], a tugboat named Bolivar[lower-alpha 19], Cintra, and Adolfito launches[lower-alpha 20] would facilitate transportation.[56] The steamship Hernán was also chartered by Fitzcarrald in 1895, and transported 50,000 kilos of rubber that year on a voyage back to Iquitos.[59][lower-alpha 21]

In 1896, the Peruvian government granted Fitzcarrald exclusive navigational rights to the Upper Ucayali,[3] Urubamba, Manu, and Madre de Dios River.[60][61][lower-alpha 22] Suarez and Vaca Díez had to negotiate separately with Fitzcarrald so that they could operate on the rivers controlled by him. Suarez offered rubber-bearing lands on the Manu River to Fitzcarrald in exchange for navigational rights.[62][lower-alpha 23] Suarez ships were also permitted to travel through the Urubamba-Ucayali River due to these negotiations.[64] That year, Vaca Díez made a voyage to London to register The Orton Rubber Co. and return to Bolivia with several new migrants who would work for him. Fitzcarrald and Vaca Díez met again in July of 1897 near Mishagua, where they would discuss business.[65][lower-alpha 24]

Fitzcarrald died at age 35 together with his Bolivian business partner Vaca Díez when their ship Adolfito sank on the Urubamba River in an accident.[67][lower-alpha 25] They were travelling to the Orton River at the head of a convoy, followed by the steamships Laura and Cintra.[58] Lizzie Hessel, who witnessed the accident, believed that a chain on the Adolfito broke and the ship lost control to the current afterwards.[69][lower-alpha 26] Albert Perl wrote that after the ship lost control to the current, it was slammed against rocks in the river[66] and then sank.[71] In a letter to her family, Lizzie wrote that Fitzcarrald had boarded the Adolfito to convince Vaca Díez to travel on a canoe since Fitzcarrald did not have faith in the new steamship. However, Fitzcarrald was persuaded to stay on this ship with his business partner.[69][72][lower-alpha 27] Fitzcarrald's wife blamed the group of travelers that were accompanying Vaca Díez for her husband's death, since he had arranged accommodations for this group.[69][lower-alpha 28] Ernesto Reyna laid blamed Albert Perl for the accident, as he was piloting the Adolfito at the time.[75][58] After July of 1897, some of the remaining Mashco and Guarayo natives along the Madre de Dios River began attacking canoes and raiding the settlements established by Fitzcarrald's enterprise.[55][76][lower-alpha 29]

Legacy

Fitzcarrald and Vaca Díez both had a business relationship with Suárez, who would be the primary benefactor of the accident. Suárez managed to absorb a substantial portion of Fitzcarrald's fleet,[lower-alpha 30] along with many of his Peruvian personnel and soon became the biggest exporter of rubber in Bolivia. The Orton Rubber Co. which Vaca Díez founded, was entirely absorbed by Suárez's company as well.[78]

The remainder of Carlos's enterprise came under the direction of his brother Delfin along with Carlos Scharff and Leopoldo Collazos, two of Fitzcarrald's foremen.[79] The Ashaninká chief Venancio Amaringo continued to work with this enterprise, even after the death of Delfín Fitzcarrald in 1900.[16] The establishment of the portage route between the Urubamba River and Purus River was disputed between Delfín Fitzcarrald and Leopoldo Collazos.[80] Delfín was killed in an ambush upon returning from his first trip to the Purus River. The Sociedad Geográfica de Lima provided two different accounts regarding this incident, one of these accounts stated that Yaminaguas natives had ambushed Delfín's group. The other account claimed that "civilized people" disguised as the local natives had carried out the attack. [81] Fitzcarrald's biographer, Ernesto Reyna, stated that natives in the area were harshly punished in retaliation for Delfín's death.[82]

There was suspicion from José Cardoso da Rosa and Edelmira Fitzcarrald towards Leopoldo Collazos and Carlos Scharff regarding the death of Delfín.[83][84][lower-alpha 31] Around 1903, a dispute over which location Scharff was shipping his rubber to turned into a conflict between Scharff and the Fitzcarrald family. This issue later escalated into a larger border conflict between Peru and Brazil.[85][86] Another brother of Carlos Fitzcarrald, Lorenzo, was murdered in 1905 by bandits on his way back to San Luis. Lorenzo had been managing operations for a rubber enterprise in the years leading up to his death.[87][lower-alpha 32]

Velazco moved to Paris to oversee the upbringing of the children she had with Carlos Fitzcarrald.[83][lower-alpha 33] At least two of their sons, Federico and José, were educated in that city.[88] Velazco also established a hotel in Paris.[89] In 1915 Federico and José were controlling a large workforce of Ashaninká natives at the Casa Fitzcarrald, located at the confluence of the Urubamba and Tambo Rivers.[12][lower-alpha 34] The Casa Fitzcarrald and two brothers were attacked by an indigenous rebellion that occurred in 1915, and newspapers initially reported that the brothers were killed along with their family. The attackers also took away as many rifles and as much ammunition as they could carry with them.[91] Later reports stated that Federico as well as José survived the attack, and they had organized a retaliatory expedition against the natives consisting of eighty-two men.[92] Casa Fitzcarrald was one of the few rubber exporting enterprises to survive the revolt in 1915 and continue operating.[93] Human trafficking persisted in the Ucayali and Atalaya area as late as 1988.[39] In 1987 anthropologist Søren Hvalkof discovered that members of the Scharff family, related to Carlos Fitzcarrald's old foreman Carlos Scharff, were still participating in debt bondage.[94] Hvalkof emphasized that the local reputation that Fitzcarrald and Scharff had in the Ucayali area sanctioned the exploitative treatment of natives in that region.[20]

In spite of their crimes, these rubber barons are still national heroes today. In Ucayali and Atalaya they are set up as the models of civilised behaviour. Their culture was refined, they were educated, they knew how to conduct themselves and were forceful. Pianos and velvet furniture. Thus the lines of conduct and rapport with the indigenous population in Atalaya were defined and sanctioned by “public opinion” for many years.

Søren Hvalkof, Liberation through land rights, c.1975[20]

Further reading

Ernesto Reyna published the first biography of Carlos Fitzcarrald in 1942.[95] Some of this information was disputed by Zacarías Valdez Lozano in 1944, who gave his account of events through a book in Spanish titled El verdadero Fitzcarrald ante la historia.[47] There was another biography on Fitzcarrald published in 2015 by Rafael Otero Mutín, which is regarded as being better-documented than Reyna's book.[96]

"Lizzie: A Victorian Lady's Amazon Adventure" is a collection of letters from Elizabeth Mathys Hessel and her husband Fred Hessel to their family in England. Fred Hessel was hired by Antonio de Vaca Díez and travelled with Díez on his return trip from Europe. This book provides insight into the partnership between Carlos Fitzcarrald, Vaca Díez, and Nicolas Suarez, and also an eyewitness account of the Adolfito accident.[68]

  • The Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald Province was named after him.
  • Puerto Maldonado has a place to view the sunken remains of Fitzcarrald's steamship, the Contamana, which is located in the Madre de Dios River.
  • Fitzcarrald's disassembly and transport over a mountainous jungle land bridge, as well as his exploits inspired director and writer Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo (1982), which symbolizes the extremes generated during the rubber boom, and takes Fitzcarrald's symbolic transport of a disassembled ship to an explicit hyperbole by dragging an entire steamboat over a mountain.[25]

Notes

  1. José Cardozo de Rosa and Carlos Fitzcarrald's brother, Delfín, were working together on the Urubamba River as early as 1892.[9]
  2. Valdez Lozano noted that some of the Piro natives on the Tambo River were exclusively trading with Fitzcarrald, and had stopped dealing with other white merchants.[14]
  3. In 1897 Gabriel Sala documented an encounter with Amaringo, who was leading an expedition with four large canoes and twenty-five armed men.[17]
  4. Gabriel Sala noted that when he travelled through the Gran Pajonal region, he saw many burned-down houses and came across numerous bands of indigenous slave hunters and their "white foremen".[20]
  5. Delfín is credited with the discovery of a route between the Sepahua and Cujar Rivers.[32]
  6. Guillermo Reaño stated that the figure of Carlos Fitzcarrald "represented the epitome of cruelty and indigenous exploitation in the Peruvian forests."[36]
  7. Anthropologist Søren Hvalkof also implicates Carlos Fitzcarrald with the genocide of Harakmbut natives.[20] The Harakmbut were also affected by other enterprises durinig the rubber boom, and anthropologist Andrew Gray estimated that between 1894-1914 ninety-five percent of the Harakmbut demographic perished.[38]
  8. "Amongst other things, several hamlets were destroyed with machine guns (Gray 1996:225)."[20]
  9. Euclides da Cunha emphasized that Mashco-Piro was one of the groups enslaved by Fitzcarrald.[40]
  10. Valdez was Fitzcarrald's "right-hand man" and published his memoirs in 1944.[41] Valdez began working with Fitzcarrald in 1891, when Valdez was 17 years old.[14]
  11. Euclides da Cunha provides the name of the location this incident happened, "Playa Mashcos".[46]
  12. Ernesto de la Combe corroborated that thirty Mashcos were executed, however his information states that more than ten canoes were destroyed in this incident.[31]
  13. El Carmen is located at the confluence of the Sena and Madre de Dios Rivers.[51]
  14. Ernesto de La Combe states that around fifty percent of the rubber transported [by natives on canoes] along the Madeira route was lost due to shipwrecks.[51]
  15. Vaca Díez was also the cousin of Nicolás Suárez.[54]
  16. This was a 180-ton ship[56] which Suárez purchased in Iquitos.[57]
  17. La Unión was a 60-ton steamship[56] which Suárez ordered from Europe[57]
  18. This was a 22-ton ship.[56]
  19. This was purchased by Vaca Díez at Orton.[57]
  20. The Cintra was a 5-ton ship, while the Adolfito was an 8-ton ship, both of which were purchased by Vaca Díez and brought to Iquitos at the beginning of 1897. He also had another ship named the Sernamby waiting for him in Bolivia.[57] The Adolfito was constructed in London and was specifically designed for navigation on the Amazon rivers.[58]
  21. Ernesto Reyna stated that "the [Hernán] crossing from Iquitos to Mishagua took 310 hours, and the return in 86 [hours], carrying 50,000 kilos of rubber.[59]
  22. This was granted to Fitzcarrald by the Minister of War of Peru at the time, Colonel Juan T. Ibarra.[61][3]
  23. Fitzcarrald established rubber stations along the Panahua, Sotileja, Cumerjali, and Cashpajali tributaries on the Manu River.[63]
  24. According to German Albert Perl, who was navigating the Adolfito, this meeting took place on July 8, 1897.[66]
  25. Lizzie Hessel stated that the accident occurred after three days of travelling on the river away from Mishagua.[68]
  26. Ernesto Reyna also stated that it was the rudder chain that broke.[70]
  27. Albert Perl described the atmosphere of the ship at the time as festive. The Adolfito had a music box, which played throughout the journey. At the time of the accident, it was playing Martha, of The Market at Richmond.[66][73]
  28. Lizzie also stated that after the death of Fitzcarrald, his wife was physically abusing the natives, and some of them were even chained to her bed at night so that they could not run away. Lizzie referred to Aurora, Fitzcarrald's wife, as a brute. "She beats all her servants about once a week herself."[74]
  29. Albert Perl mentioned that after Fitzcarrald's death, natives around Mishagua became rebellious and were attacking the caucheros and their families.[76]
  30. This included the Shiringa, Esperanza, and Campa steamships. The Campa arrived at the area of operations after the death of Fitzcarrald.[77]
  31. Edelmira, who was the sister of Carlos and Delfín Fitzcarrald, believed that Collazos had murdered Delfín.[84]
  32. Lorenzo was returning to the family home at San Luis with the money he had made while working in the rubber industry. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown, and his body was never found.[87]
  33. Together, Aurora and Carlos Fitzcarrald had four children.[69]
  34. Federico and José returned to Peru in the early 1910s and assumed operational control over what remained of their father's enterprise. This was after the deaths of their uncles Delfín and Lorenzo.[90]

See also

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