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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Madiera Mamore Railway, passing the 

 great falls of the Madiera. This road, 

 constructed at a cost of many millions 

 of dollars and hundreds of lives, fails 

 to fill its mission. Built as a link be- 

 tween Bolivia and the commerce of 

 Europe and the United States, the freight 

 charges are so high that rubber from the 

 upper Mamore is still packed over the 

 Andes to the west coast with weeks of 

 toil, and imports likewise are brought in 

 by train and mule. We paid fifteen 

 cents a pound for baggage over these 

 two hundred and fifty miles of road. 

 After this we went on to Manaos by 

 river steamer, and from Manaos the 

 whole length of the Amazon was tra- 

 versed by steamer, to Para at its mouth 

 on the Atlantic. 



The best shooting of our trip, from 

 the sporting point of view ^ was at 



I From the scientific point of view, the best collect- 

 ing was found at Parotain, Todos Santos and Trini- 

 dad, points in Bolivia, where many rare forms of birds 

 and small mammals were secured. 



Pampa del Arrieros in Peru, thirteen 

 thousand feet elevation. Making this 

 small town a base, we worked up to the 

 snow line, which begins between eigh- 

 teen and nineteen thousand feet above 

 sea. Between the heights of thirteen 

 and seventeen thousand feet we ob- 

 tained several specimens of vicuna and 

 guanaco. Groups of these will be 

 mounted at the Field Museum, Chicago. 

 Hunting in the Andes presents few diffi- 

 culties except those due to altitude and 

 the attendant atmospheric conditions. 

 Above fifteen thousand feet, climbing in 

 the rarified air is slow and laborious, 

 and the few nights we spent in the open 

 at these altitudes were cold and sleepless. 

 In spite of the weather drawbacks, 

 which made collecting often impossible 

 and preparing specimens always difficult, 

 the expedition was able to obtain fifteen 

 hundred bird skins and about five hun- 

 dred small mammals for the American 

 Museum. 



before reaching MoUendo we visited the ruins of the ancient Peruvian city Chan Chan, near Trujillo. This 

 formerly covered a square mile and little is known of its origin, except that it was built before the coming of the 

 Incas. Only mud walls are left, the city having been plundered and destroyed by Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish 

 discoverer and conqueror of Peru, who found much treasure there. On the walls rough bas-relief is still visible, the 

 clay having stood climatic changes for five or six hundred years 



