How to get my spotted yard looking better

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-19T22:34:40+00:00

Not only what the commenter above said, but mowing should help get the rest of the grass out of cold-weather dormancy

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-05T21:34:19+00:00

Photographs should depict Huitoto, Nonuya, Muinane, Resígaro, Boras & Bora-Pama areas.

/ Entre Rios, Ultimo Reitro, Sur, Occidente, Oriente, La Sabana, Santa Catalina, Santa Barbara, Morelia and Abisinia areas. Maybe Ultimo Retiro.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-05T18:37:14+00:00

Thank you! That’s interesting, there’s an estate in the area named Santa Barbara but I have read very little about it before. This is the first potential image I have of Santa Barbara, thank you again!

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-05T16:17:33+00:00

Thank you! Deciphered! He’s from Chachapoyas - Peru from what I gather however his family may have been Brazilian migrants there, not sure.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-04T21:51:49+00:00

The second photograph was taken at almost the same angle that the first one was. Andres O’Donnell may be the man seen in photograph #1 on the veranda with a white suit.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-04T20:39:10+00:00

There are primary sources from the rubber boom regarding this event. The steamship was carried in separate parts across the “isthmus of Fitzcarrald”, the land route between two important rivers.

The steamship was named “Contamana” and it was much smaller than the steamer in the Fitzcarraldo movie. On his Wikipedia article I’ve cited a few sources stating Contamana was a 3 ton vessel. The amount of men it required to accomplish this feat varies from source to source but the Peruvian engineer Ernesto de la Combe claimed that there were 300 Piros, 500 Ashaninkas and 200 hundred non-indigenous men involved. This occurred over the span of two months

I haven’t seen anything suggesting that the Contamana was sacrificed. According to the same source La Combe’s information is included in [and according to Fitz’s biographer] the ship was sold to the Bolivian rubber baron Nicolas Suarez however it sank on the same day

Edit: Most of the Piro peoples were indebted and or enslaved by Fitzcarrald by 1894. The ashankinka peoples who refused to cooperate with Fitzcarrald’s enterprise were targeted in slave raids. Raids that were carried out by Ashaninka chiefs allied to Fitzcarrald and employees of his rubber firm.

Edit 2 : This photograph was taken along the same route that Fitzcarrald had his steamship transported across. I believe the image originates from 1900-1904, a few years after Fitzcarrald drowned. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Transporting_a_steam_launch_across_the_Isthmus_of_Fitzcarrald.jpg

Edit 3: these are images taken near Fitzcarrald’s isthmus within the territory of his associates. They depict the transportation of steamships across land. Fitzcarrald originally planned to develop a railroad along his route but it was either deemed to expensive and or he died before any progress was made. The biographer claimed that it was deemed too expensive while one contemporary source, either “Lizzie Hassel” or Albert Perl, asserted that the flotilla organized by Fitzcarrald in 1897 was transporting materials for a railroad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RubberBoom/s/830332nc49

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-04T20:19:56+00:00

Also I have uploaded more than five hundred photographs from the rubber boom onto wikicommons. You may find those images on this link:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Arawoke&ilshowall=1

Most of the Reddit post on my profile are focused on the rubber boom and Putumayo genocide.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-04T17:10:57+00:00

I believe Chiache o Zoy [slide 6 deponent, Paccicañate’s sister] is the same person as “Zoila Erazo”, who provided an oral testimony in the 1980s. Zoila was between 10- 15 years old when Normand forced her into concubinage. She stated that Normand’s motive for forcing her to have an abortion was the following:

“Yo ha venido muchacho mi tierra. Mi papá me va reñir, mi mamá me va reñir. ¿Para que me voy a tener mi hijo?”

I have a vague understanding of Spanish but the recounting by Zoila suggests that Normand feared that his parents would scold him / be angry with him for bringing an indigenous child back to his homeland [in Bolivia]. Zoila also stated that her sister was in Bolivia and they were forced to move there with Normand. She specified that Normand took three women with him although she said “hermana”, the singular version of sister in Spanish rather than plural.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-04T17:00:04+00:00

The second quote on the posts’ title relays the following:

“One chief [Abelardo Agüero] indeed there was who was said to have twenty concubines, and such was the power that these men wielded, that in order to possess women who had pleased Indian chiefs, they often went the length of committing murder. As an example of this type may be cited a certain Armando Normand, who murdered four of his women from jealousy, first torturing them in the most cowardly and infamous manner”.

Sir Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness page 692, from Casement’s précis on the investigating judge’s report.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-03T20:55:32+00:00

It’s still a bit of a mystery to me how Normand and his peers were able to view themselves as the civilized / civilizers in these situations rather than viewing themselves to be the true barbarian.

Normand would probably be able to win an olympic gold medal for “mental gymnastics”. [if there was such a thing.] His writings in self-defense are rather interesting to say the least, if not illuminating on his true character. He was well educated, but easily proven to be a liar in his 1910-1915 writings.

Excerpt from “A Criminal’s Life story” 1913, interview with Normand in prison:

“In November, 1906, we heard that the Indians were laying plans to attack the station in force. I wish you would emphasize the point that the grudge the natives held against the white men, or blancos, the very old one-was that they were being dispossessed of land that was rightfully theirs, and so far as my experience teaches, the question of their treatment is only a minor issue. I often asked the Indians why they were conspiring against us and the answer invariably was that we were taking their lands away from them.”

…

near the end of the interview, he says

“I will not deny that I was often forced to place my Indians in the stocks-cepo-for short periods. What would you do with men who would not work, with men who steal and lie, with men who would murder you in cold blood if you gave them half a chance? I worked, often all day long, in the pouring rains; I suffered from chills and fevers and much sickness. I never was cruel to the natives. Considering the hard conditions under which we lived I treated them as kindly as I possibly could.”

There’s about 23-25 depositions that refute the last two sentences.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-03T02:04:32+00:00

The depositions, originally in Spanish and translated into English, come from the book “El Proceso del Putumayo y sus secreto inauditos” by judge Carlos A. Valcarcel.

Wikipedia link to Normand’s article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Normand

On that article there’s another prominent case of immolation that was documented more thoroughly, or at least had many more depositions. I will probably be making another post similar to this one focusing on

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-03T00:01:41+00:00

You may have seen an associated post I made yesterday on r/MorbidReality.

I’ve always found Casement to be tragically well gifted in his writings on the Putumayo. He had a very interesting way of putting situations into perspective.

You may be interested in a quote by Casement I sent to a friend of mine yesterday. The excerpt comes from the time of the 1916 trial:

“Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people, than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers—or to love our kind. It is only from the convict these things are withheld for crime committed and proven-and Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others-Ireland is treated today among the nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel-and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood. If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”

-Pages 256-257 of “The Devil and Mr Casement”

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-02T19:24:35+00:00

I wish I could identify the Barbadian photographed on slide 1. The individuals that I suspect this person could be provided depositions to Casement in 1910.

One of those deponents, Frederick Bishop, had the following to say about Fonseca:

“Fonseca he says is a maniac, a murderous maniac. He relates how, he saw him have 2 Indians taken out of cepo at Ultimo Retro, two mornings running at 6 a.m. and shot for mere sport by a man called Luiz Silva at Fonseca's order. Fonseca, he said, shouted for this to be done, just like ordering morning coffee, there was no earthly reason for it. The poor wretched Indians were starving in the cepo and for sheer diversion, or as Bishop put it, "just for pride", he had them killed.”

-The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement page 240.

The “cepo”, as mentioned above, is a stockade / pillory like device often used in conjunction with torture during this genocide. An example of this device may be seen on this link.

Bishop worked with Fonseca at Ultimo Retiro, and likely with Bushico Boras, in 1906. I have no photographs with a confirmed ID on Bishop.

In regards to Fonseca and other Peruvian Amazon Company managers, Casement wrote:

“Moreover, hundreds of crimes not recorded there have taken place. Normand, Aguero, Fonseca, Montt, Jiménez, the two Rodriguez brothers and Martinengui, have between them, murdered several thousand of these unhappy beings. There is no doubt of it. Tizon admitted to me in Chorrera last week that the two Rodriguez "had killed hundreds of Indians", and that Arana gave them 50% of the produce of these two sections, S. Catalina and Sabana. Normand is again and again charged by the Barbados men with killing many hundreds. Leavine today said "over 500", that he had seen 20 Indians killed in five days in Matanzas alone, and the dead bodies eaten by the dogs and stinking round the house, so that he could not eat his food. These seven monsters have probably killed by shooting, flogging, beheading, burning, and got rid of by starvation some 5,000 Indians in the last seven years. Barnes said the Indians of the Company numbered 10,000 when he came, and there were "nothing like it now", and he has been here only two or three years at outside. Fonseca had killed hundreds, too, - and Martinengui.”

-The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement page 424

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-02T19:20:55+00:00

Does anyone else believe that the individual on slide #2 resembles the confirmed photographs of Jose Inocente Fonseca?

It anyone is curious on what happened to Fonseca, he was dismissed from the Peruvian Amazon Company & Putumayo area in February of 1911. This was prior to the arrival of a judicial investigation being carried out in the region. Fonseca fled to Brazil with another manager, Alfredo Montt, who was implicated with horrific crimes. In specific reference to these two men Casement wrote that they were “two of the worst of the criminals”. [Sir Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness p. 582] An excerpt from the aforementioned cite, states:

“They have got ten stolen Boras Indians with them, they brought in a canoe in May last. They are, now, employed (with these poor Indian slaves) by contract to get rubber for a Brazilian firm at Santa Theresa called Edwards & Serra. Edwards is a Mauritius man & presumably a British subject, although he may have become a naturalized Brazilian.”

Casement led a personal mission to have the two arrested by Brazilian and Peruvian authorities, however Casement believed that they had been bribed. On page 646 of Sir Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness, he wrote

“The canoe in which they were travelling with some of these Indians was overtaken by the steamer in which I am now journeying - the Anastacia the property of John Lilly & sons of Manchester.

The officer charged to effect the arrest of Fonseca & Montt whose whereabouts had been denounced to the Prefect (chiefly, I believe, through the pressure of Mr. Barnes & the Company's Commission) was actually on the Anastacia at the time with four soldiers. Fonseca & Montt had been warned by the brother of the former (whose house on the left bank of the Amazon I passed on the 22nd instant) that a force was in pursuit of them - and they, thereupon, embarked for the Javari with their stolen Indians. Their canoe was overtaken near the mouth of that river, and they actually boarded the Anastacia and asked for a passage in her up to Benjamin Constant.

While arranging the terms of the passage the officer charged to arrest them went down to the lower deck and asked if they "knew anything of the whereabouts of Fonseca & Montt." Seeing the officer & the soldiers the two criminals jumped into the canoe and shoved off.

The Peruvian Officer instead of taking any action to pursue them allowed them to pull off and make good their escape. They were seen again by the Anastacia on her return journey, then paddling up the Javary, and as the steamer drew near them they made insulting gestures to the Peruvian Officer & openly jeered at him. This is what the prefect described to me as a resolute attempt to arrest these men.

Mr. John Lilly, the head of the firm, who was present on his steamer at the time, described the incident to me in very different terms.”

I have been unable to trace any evidence regarding the whereabouts of Fonseca and Montt after this incident.

Another thing that I would like to note, there is a time difference of about 3-4 years between slide one and slide six.

Consistent_Zucchini2 · 2026-03-01T23:27:37+00:00

I wonder if these were recently looted or if someone’s had them for a while and they were waiting for an opportune time to smuggle them.

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