Crossword-Solution: RESERVA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

SERVAT: conserv'ative; conserv'atory; observ'ation; observ'atory; preserva'tion; preserv'ative; reserva'tion.

Primero, con mucha reserva, doña Paula hizo venir a Nieves la bordadora, y celebró con ella una larga conferencia a puertas cerradas.

Among other interesting facts, I learned that this whole region had first been settled by Colombians, who had been afterwards squeezed out by the Peruvians, until now in the whole district of the Caraparaná and Igaraparaná there remained but three Colombian establishments--La Unión, La Reserva (Serrano's), and El Dorado, belonging to a negro called Ildefonso Gonzalez.

Accordingly, I sent word to Perkins by means of an Indian that Serrano loaned me for the purpose to descend with the canoe from Remolino to Josa, Serrano's port on the Putumayo, and, arriving there, to leave the canoe and our personal effects--for we should pass Josa on our way to the _varadero_--and bring over to La Reserva everything we had for sale, for which purpose we would send some _cargadores_ there to meet him.

Serrano's Yabuyanos at La Reserva served us splendidly, for they were always cheerful, willing, and reliable.